Subject: RE: SystemVerilog 21st Meeting Minutes 4/1/02
From: Dave Kelf (davek@co-design.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 09:03:54 PST
Yes you are right David. Next meeting Monday April 8th, not 7th
At 03:20 PM 4/2/2002 -0800, David Smith wrote:
>I assume you mean Monday April 8th and not April 7th. (Or is this a
>belated April Fool's comment?)
>
>David
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Kelf [mailto:davek@co-design.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:35 PM
>To: vlog-pp@eda.org
>Subject: SystemVerilog 21st Meeting Minutes 4/1/02
>
>
>SystemVerilog 21st Committee Meeting Minutes
>April 1st, 2002
>Teleconference
>Lead Vassilios, Minutes Dave Kelf
>
>Attendance
>(aaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaa) Vassilios Gerousis *
>(a-aaaaraaa-aaarar-aaaa) Dave Kelf *
>(------------aaa--aaaa=) John Sanguinetti
>(aaaaaaaaaaaaa--a-aa---) Dennis Brophy *
>(aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) Stu Sutherland *
>(-------a--------aaaaa=) David Knapp
>(aaaaaa--aaaaaraaar-aaa) Tom Fitzpatrick *
>(------a-arraa-aaaaaaa=) Phil Moorby
>(aaa--aaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaa) Anders Nordstrom *
>(aa---aaaaaa--a-aaaaaaa) Cliff Cummings *
>(--aaaaaaaaaraaa-aaaaaa) Simon Davidmann
>(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa====) Peter Flake *
>(aa-aa--aaaa-aaaaa-aaaa) Stefen Boyd *
>(a----aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) David Smith *
>(-aa--aaa-aaa--a-a--aa=) Mike McNamara
>(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=======) Kevin Cameron *
>(a-aaaaaa-a-aa-a=======) Andy Tsay *
>(aaaaaaa-aa============) Alec Stanculescu *
>(-aa-----a=============) Adam Krolnik
>(aaa--aaa==============) Paul Graham *
>(-------a==============) David Seifert
>(--aa==================) Alex Zamfirescu
>
>
>Agenda
>- Draft 5
>- Open Issues:
> Deprecation
> State Machines
> Packed Arrays
> Always_comb
> Enumerated Type Clarification
> Data Packing (Peter has sent email)
>
>
>Draft 6 Discussion Lead By Stu
>- Introduction - Should remove references to companies that donated, etc.
>Simplify history.
>- BNF - boxes need to be completed - waiting on clean BNF from Stefen which
>has to be tested by Alec.
>ACTION: Stefen to send out new BNF.
>
>Editor Notes:
>Section 2 beginning - Name change should be completed
>Section 3.8 - Casting - parentheses are required
>Section 5.3 - Leave as is
>Section 7.1 - Leave it in place
>Section 7.5 - Operators need to be spelt out. Stu to write wording based on
>what is legal for existing operators.
>Section 7.9 - ACTION Peter needs to get back to Committee on rules for
>unspecified size in concatenation
>Section 9 - Decide after FSM discussion
>Section 10 Note 1 - Intro looks like it needs to be a new section 10.8,
>something like Process Execution or Threads
>Section 10 Note 2 - ACTION Peter to look at 10.6 / 10.7 and send clean up
>suggestions in email
>Section 11/12 - ACTION Please everyone review and make sure these sections
>are OK
>Section 12.2 - ACTION Peter to analyze and get back to Stu Section 12.4 -
>Extern proposal needs to be deferred for 3.1. ACTION Kevin
>to provide proposal.
>Section 12.5 Note 1 - Change to: including packed array, structure, and
>union. Section 12.5 Note 2 - Need to spell out for cases of port
>specification,
>and the resulting action
>Last sentence before 12.6 - Grammatical error
>Section 12.7 - ACTION: Cliff to send out information for this Wednesday
>(3rd April)
>Section 13.2 and 3 related notes - Postpone completion until .*/.name
>syntax provided
>Section 18 - ACTION: Tom to send on Thursday
>Annex B - Should we reserve certain keywords for future proposals, for
>example pointers (SUPERLOG uses ref). Word state should not be on list,
>although transition should be kept. Extern is already there. Annex C - Stu
>to complete Glossary List
>
>
>Open Issues
>
>Packed Arrays
>Looking at Paul's Proposal, 1 & 2 dropped. 3,4,5,6 are OK. ACTION on Peter
>to provide documentation for 6 to cover $left / $right. ACTION Paul to
>provide detailed proposal for syntax on 3,4,5. Arithmetic
>operations already agreed to be deferred to 3.1
>
>Deprecation
>ACTION: Cliff to send a new proposal with softer wording to deprecate
>procedural assign/deassign and defparam.
>
>State Machines
>Decided that we need a vote to choose whether to keep in 3.0 or defer to
>3.1. Vassilios should drive vote as chair.
>ACTION Vassilios to drive email vote on FSM status for Wednesday, vote to
>be complete by Friday
>
>
>Next Meeting
>Next Monday 7th April, 9:00 PST, 12:00EDT, 5:00 GMT, 6:00 Central Europe
>(note that the hour change will have happened by this time in the US).
>Call In Number 405 244 5555 access code 3715
>
>
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