[sv-ec] Meeting Monday June 21 2010, 11:00am - 1:00pm (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canda)

From: Mehdi Mohtashemi <Mehdi.Mohtashemi@synopsys.com>
Date: Fri Jun 18 2010 - 16:18:58 PDT

The next meeting of SV-EC will be on Monday June 21 2010,

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canda).

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[also updated on http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes.html ]

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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 June 7 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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  Review and finalize the time estimates to be proivded to p1800WG on June 24 2010.

    The results are in spreadsheet, uploaded onto sv-ec site:

http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes/svec_top25_June7_2010result.xlsx

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

4

19

2993

4

63

Cross cover points across different cover groups

med

0.5

20

1442

3

63

Clocking blocks legal in modports, missing from text description in 20.9

6

21

2953

6

61

Algorithmic generation of covergroup bin contents

high

0.5

22

1349

5

61

fork/join_none: what if parent thread terminates without blocking statement?

0.5

23

2949

4

60

LRM is silent about the semantics of referencing a clocking block output

low

4

24

2451

6

58

Omitting body defaults

med

4

25

2987

6

56

Soft Constraints

med

92

total

46 (2hr sessions)

0.5

26

3006

5

55

LRM doesn't say explicitly what should happen if null pointer is randomized

low

4

27

3004

5

55

Ability to declare/qualify classes/methods/variables/constraints final

med

2

28

2998

4

55

Solve Before enhanced

low

4

29

2117

3

52

Allow extending of covergroups in classes

high

4

30

No Mantis 6

5

51

(3) Allow reuse of enumerated names (slide 31)

0.5

31

2928

3

50

ambiguous restriction on function calls in constraint expressions

low

4

32

2787

3

50

reference via scope operator to parametrized superclass item

med

2

33

2972

3

49

add class constructor/method, task/function overloading

High

2

34

2996

4

49

Method overloading

High

0

35

2988

2

48

Defaults Constraints

med

0

36

No Mantis 4

2

47

(1) AOP when-inheritance (slide 31)

23

total

11 sessions

4. Review/resolve sv-ec mantis items

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   Several mantis items were marked as trivial, we can get started on resolution:

    2956, 1442, 1349, 2949, 3006, 2928,

   PLEASE send in any manits items that you think we can start reviews/resolution.

5. Next meetings June and July 2010

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 [July 5th is holiday in US]

    Monday July 19 2010 11:00-1:00pm [tentative]

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