The next meeting of SV-EC will be on Monday June 7 2010,
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canda).
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Agenda:
1. Review IEEE patent policy
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http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt
2. Approval of previous meeting minutes:
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May 24 2010 meeting minutes
http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes/SV-EC_Meeting_May_24_2010_Minutes.txt
3. Estimates for the top 25 issues and categories:
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The top 25 items/issues from SV-EC were presented to p1800WG on May 13 2010.
Refer to this presentation:
http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes/SVEC_to25_13May2010.pdf
P1800WG has requested the committees to provide a time-estimate/schedule for
this list, how many can be completed by the deadline of October 2011.
We need to provide the schedule/time-line by June 10 2010.
Continue with the list and incorporate estimated time.
estimates of hours
top 25
Id
Number of Votes
weighted vote
Summary
Degrees of difficulty
4
1
2848
7
159
Is it legal to assign an interface containing class declaration to a virtual interface
med
12
2
3002
8
125
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) features
High
1
3
3046
8
112
Dotted names within inlined constraints
Low
16
4
1356
6
112
Multiple Inheritance
High
2
5
3001
9
102
Proper Polymorphic behavior of instantiation
low
3
6
2999
7
99
Class Handle reference inside of Constraints
med
5
7
3003
6
98
Constraint Composition
High
8
8
3082
7
96
Ambiguity resolution (see slide 10 for examples of parts of the Standard that have been interpreted differently by different simulators) [The first 3 items on page 10, the other 4 on this page are more trivial]
4
9
2845
4
84
virtual interface type checking versus interface type that had been defparam'ed
high
0.5
10
2956
4
76
clarify class 'process' definition (9.7 vs 18.13.3, 18.13.4, 18.13.5)
low
3
11
2505
4
76
class select: what is allowed after the dot?
low
4
12
2735
4
73
Ballot Comment #48: Chaining of method calls
med
1
13
1706
4
72
Meaning of static prefix for virtual interface assignments
2
14
2488
4
69
Are virtual method calls legal within class constructors?
med
2
15
2112
6
69
Remove restrictions on NBA assigments to class members
med
2
16
3028
6
68
constraints for unique array elements.
Med
2
17
2950
4
67
virtual method prototype matching
low
1
18
2794
4
64
Clarify queue methods return status
low
19
2993
4
63
Cross cover points across different cover groups
med
20
1442
3
63
Clocking blocks legal in modports, missing from text description in 20.9
21
2953
6
61
Algorithmic generation of covergroup bin contents
high
22
1349
5
61
fork/join_none: what if parent thread terminates without blocking statement?
23
2949
4
60
LRM is silent about the semantics of referencing a clocking block output
low
24
2451
6
58
Omitting body defaults
med
25
2987
6
56
Soft Constraints
med
26
3006
5
55
LRM doesn't say explicitly what should happen if null pointer is randomized
low
27
3004
5
55
Ability to declare/qualify classes/methods/variables/constraints final
med
28
2998
4
55
Solve Before enhanced
low
29
2117
3
52
Allow extending of covergroups in classes
high
30
No Mantis 6
5
51
(3) Allow reuse of enumerated names (slide 31)
31
2928
3
50
ambiguous restriction on function calls in constraint expressions
low
32
2787
3
50
reference via scope operator to parametrized superclass item
med
33
2972
3
49
add class constructor/method, task/function overloading
High
34
2996
4
49
Method overloading
High
35
2988
2
48
Defaults Constraints
med
36
No Mantis 4
2
47
(1) AOP when-inheritance (slide 31)
4. Next meetings June and July 2010
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Monday June 21 2010 11:00-1:00pm [tentative]
[July 5th is holiday in US]
Monday July 19 2010 11:00-1:00pm [tentative]
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