[sv-ec] Agenda for Monday November 22 2004 Conference Call

Meeting announcement for SV-EC.
 [Also announced on http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes.html ]

Meeting on Monday November 22, 2004.
Time: 11 am - 1:00pm PDT
Toll free number
USA: 1- 888-635-9997
International: 1- 763-315-6815

Participant code 6343466#

The proposed agenda:

1) Review the IEEE patent policy
    ref: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

2) Approve the minutes of the last meeting [November 8 2004 meeting]
                http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes.html

3) Next meeting schedule.
    Regular meeting schedule is set for Dec 6th, beyond Dec 1st
    p1800 deadline. Is there time to meet on Tuesday Nov 30, at 11:00?
    to handle last minute items?

4) Review/discuss and vote on Errata in the database.
    I have made the following groups for our discussion:
    a) String questions:
        Errata: 203 (Surrendra action item)
                 271 (Surrendra action item)
                   275 (Dave Rich action item)

    b) Randomization/constraints/randcase
        4 Add rs_rule precedence and example in Section 12.16
                (Surrendra, Ray)
        175 Ambiguous ordering of random variables (Ray)
           211 Add clarifying example to builtin / scope randomize
                (Ray)
      260 distributions and constraints solving
                (Francoise)
      261 randcase width rules inconsistent with Verilog
                (Steven Sharp)
      262 randcase unclear on negative weights (Steve, Bill)
      263 wide randcase weights
                [an Enhancement Request, proposal format]
      270 User need more information when the randomize method fails

    c) Coverage
      6 Description of query and inst_query methods
      172 assignment of values to fixed bins is not specified
      251 multiple user defined bins for cross
      252 default bin of a coverpoint in cross
      253 a variable has a coverpoint but is used directly in a cross
        Plus email questions from Ray

    d) Other/General
      250 bug in 8.5.2 example code
        238,240 - (did not pass in the first email vote ballot)
        25 Pass by reference behavior of dynamically allocated
objects
  
      138 [Jeita 13] unclear behavior of default sequence
      171 Configuration of programs
      204 Missing $unit and program identifier for class resolution
operator
      219 disable/return and fork-join/join_any/join_none
      234 associative_dimension BNF
      236 Behavior of the cycle_delay with 'Zero' value
      237 Clarification of wait fork

    e) cross-committee
        216 enum initialization, x etc.
        213,243,249 masked bit operators

    f) In the enhancement request category:
      134 [Jeita 9] 4 state values as constraints
      239 Allow specific clocking event on each cycle_delay declaration
      241 Regular expression handling mechanism
      242 Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) mechanism
      244 Class method overwrite
      245 Array of queues
      246 Random object stability example code
      247 Property qualifier and random stability in object instances
      255 include sequence_expr in primary

    Newly submitted errata:
      317 class as bit-stream type
      319 what is the root thread?
        (data base ref: http://www.eda.org/svdb/ )

- Mehdi Mohtashemi
  mehdi@synopsys.com
Received on Mon Nov 22 09:09:33 2004