[sv-bc] Agenda: August 14 SV-BC CC

SV-BC Errata Committee Meeting
Date: Monday, August 14, 2006
Time: 09:00am-11:00am PDT

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Agenda

+Review IEEE patent policy
  http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt 
  
+ Review Minutes of Previous Meeting

  http://www.verilog.org/sv-bc/minutes/sv-bc_06_07_31.txt

+ PAR Update

  The latest 1800 PAR was recently approved by the IEEE:

  http://standards.ieee.org/board/nes/projects/1800.pdf

"The new revision of the standard will include resolutions and
clarifications
 to Errata and critical enhancements that will enable successful usage
of the
 hardware design and verification language.  Furthermore, and as 
 SystemVerilog is a superset of Verilog, the new revision will merge
with 
 Verilog 1364-2005 standard to ensure a single reference manual for
users and
 EDA vendors alike. The new standard will also enable interoperability
with 
 existing languages such as VHDL and SystemC, as well as integration
with 
 Analog Mixed Signal (AMS)."

  o Karen will provide update on processes

  o Brad will provide update on VHDL/SystemC efforts

+ Issue Review

 Process:
 Identify subset of issues to focus committee effort
 Assign owners for the issues
 Owners bring issues to vote when draft of proposal complete
 Rebuttal to issues should come in the form of specific changes to
proposal

 Guidelines for issues:
 - Group would prefer not to address issues that complicate merging of
the 
   LRMs or require edits to both specs.  Group would prefer to address
more
   isolated errata until next PAR is set.
 - Try to clarify intent of some issues even if no formal resolution.
This
   would be useful for keeping implementations consistent.
 - Major Severity will be used to identify issues that if not addressed
will
   lead to visibly different implementations.
 - Group will use severity to quantify impact of change.
   Issues will be addressed in order of severity.
 - Priority will indicate issue's development progress.  Increase in
priority
   indicates increased progress to proposal and vote.  'Immediate'
priority
   indicates issue is ready for a vote.
 - Individuals will indicate ownership of resolution by adding
themselves
   to the 'assigned to' field.  Karen will help anyone who cannot update
an 
   issue.
 - Individual members can increase the severity of an issue but the
group 
   must agree to decrease severity.
 - Status Filed: Assigned, Resolved & Closed are key states. 

 Issue Themes

 Namespaces
 Issues: 30, 1213, 1214, 1220
 Primary Owner: Francoise
 Participants: Gord, Francoise, Mark, cc: Shalom, cc: Karen
 
 I/O Errata/Clarification
 Issues: 672, 1078, 1386: Steven ; 988: Gord
 Primary Owner: Steven
 Participants: Steven, Gord, Mark, Francoise
 
 Enumerated Types
 Issues: 916, 917, 1429 
 Primary Owner: Matt
 
 Configurations
 Issues: 986 (see bugnote for related items)
 Primary Owner: TBD (proposed as Cliff but he was not present)

 Scheduling
 Issues: 1290, 219
 Primary Owner: TBD (Gord; after first round of issues are addressed)

 Compiler Directives
 Issues: 1052, 1053, 1084, 1119, 1202, 1292, 1333, 1338, 1339, 1341
 Primary Owner: Shalom 

 Name Resolution
 Primary Owner: Gord
 Participants: Francoise, Steven, Mark, Shalom.

 o SVDB 1401
(http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001401)

 o SVDB 1557
(http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001557)
 
 o Brad identified the following issues as potentials for an e-mail
vote:

   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000967
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000982
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001493
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001529
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001534
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001538
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001539
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001540
   http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001554

   Any other issues suitable for email vote?

+ Proposed Next Meeting Date: August 28

Action Items
Complete


Pending
01/09/2006 Shalom add example for issue 1254 describing situation for
rule 3
03/13/2006 Matt Open up SV-BC Issue requesting an index for P1800
03/27/2006 Cliff post examples demonstrating the need for 0-1 wildcard 
           to justify further action on SVDB 99
04/10/2006 Steven to create proposal for SVDB 1386
04/10/2006 Steven to create proposal for SVDB 1078
04/24/2006 Matt identify any other threads of major issues
05/22/2006 Gord Second issue regarding scoping & forward visibility in
$unit.
05/22/2006 Gord Enter mantis item & deliver proposal to address name 
           resolution issues 
05/22/2006 Steven & Mark Review Gord's name resolution proposal.
06/19/2006 Dave to draw up some guidelines about thread creation from 
           functions for SV-BC to vote/capture consensus and pass along
to 
           other committees.
06/19/2006 Gord raise the issue of support of dynamic data in vcd to
SV-EC.
06/19/2006 Francoise check with SV-CC regariding suitability of data
read API
           to address debugging of "dynamic data" in lieu of vcd
extensions.
07/10/2006 Matt move Gord's document to 1268
07/10/2006 Steve add bugnote to 1043 about specifics for resolution
07/31/2006 Steve add bug note to 1481 with details for a clearer
proposal

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Matt Maidment
mmaidmen@ichips.intel.com