1) Call to order - Introductions & Affiliations

• Karen Pieper -- Accellera DR
• Mehdi Mohtashemi -- Synopsys DR
• Shalom Bresticker -- Intel DRA
• Neil Korpusik -- Sun DR
• Chas Dawson -- Cadence DR
• Dave Rich - Mentor DRA
• Cliff Cummings -- Sunburst Design
• Stu Sutherland -- P1800 Editor, Sutherland HDL

2) Approve agenda

• 1) Call to order - Introductions & Affiliations
• 2) Approve agenda
• 3) Patent Policy and Call for Patents
• 4) Approval of Minutes
• 5) Balloting of Officers
• 6) Funding, Budgeting, and Financial Update
• 7) Editing update
  • Discussion of Names in the front of the LRM
• 8) Schedule Status Update
• 9) P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update
• 10) DATE
• 11) New Business
• 12) Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)
• 13) Adjournment Dave moves that we approve the agenda. Mehdi seconds. Passes Unanimously.

3) Patent Policy and Call for Patents

The Chair directs everyone's attention to the patent policy at: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

4) Approval of Minutes

• Minutes of the August 14, 2008 Meeting Mehdi moves to approve the minutes. Chas seconds. Passes Unanimously.

5) Balloting of Officers

• Nominations for all positions exist. Nominations close 9/12/08 at 5pm Pacific Time.

6) Funding, Budgeting, and Financial Update

• No major updates.

7) Editing update

• Finished making all changes for Draft 7, a few things will be completed, and the draft will be delivered today. All changes are in place with the exception of 2226, which the SV-CC is scheduled to complete by 9/25.
• In listing participants, we will merge the names from the SV-SC, and add them to the SV-AC.
• On which draft do we delete all the margin boxes?
  • Karen will ask if the margin notes indicating Mantis numbers can remain for the ballot can remain in the Ballot.

8) Schedule Status Update

• September 11, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• September 25, 2008 Pre-ballot draft available (Draft 7)
• -------------- Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review
• -------------- Two year anniversary for officer elections
• October 4, 2008 Remind entities to become members
• October 16, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• October 25, 2008 IEEE unpaid review complete
• November 6, 2008 Last editing corrections filed in svdb
• November 6, 2008 Open the invitation to ballot
• November 13, 2008 Champions meeting
• *** November 20, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- P1800 approval due
• December 5, 2008 Proposed completion date for draft 7a. We may want to move this earlier. Discussion planned for the September meeting.
• December 6, 2008 Close of the invitation to ballot
• December 15, 2008 Balance in the balloting group confirmed
• *** December 18, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- Ballot draft available
• -------------- Balloting begins
• January 15, 2008 Ballot closes
• January 31, 2009 Ballot responses available
• February 28, 2009 Committees respond to ballot responses
• March 7, 2009 Champions meeting
• March 15, 2009 P1800 approval
• April 15, 2009 Recirculation draft (Was May 31 for 1800-2005)
• May 1, 2009 Recirculation results back
• June 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA Approval
• August 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication available

We moved some dates, especially in the meetings in our schedule. The revised schedule is:

• September 10, 2008 Draft 7 Available
• September 11, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• September 25, 2008 SV-CC edits complete on 2226
• -------------- Two year anniversary for officer elections
• September 28, 2008 Pre-ballot draft available (Draft 7)
• -------------- Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review
• October 4, 2008 Remind entities to become members
• October 23, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• October 28, 2008 IEEE unpaid review complete
• November 1, 2008 Last editing corrections filed in svdb
• November 6, 2008 Open the invitation to ballot
• November 6, 2008 Champions meeting
• November 13, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- P1800 approval due
• December 5, 2008 Proposed completion date for draft 7a. We may want to move this earlier. Discussion planned for the September meeting.
• December 6, 2008 Close of the invitation to ballot
• December 15, 2008 Balance in the balloting group confirmed
• *** December 18, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- Ballot draft available
• -------------- Balloting begins
• January 15, 2008 Ballot closes
• January 31, 2009 Ballot responses available
• February 28, 2009 Committees respond to ballot responses
• March 7, 2009 Champions meeting
• March 15, 2009 P1800 approval
• April 15, 2009 Recirculation draft (Was May 31 for 1800-2005)
• May 1, 2009 Recirculation results back
• June 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA Approval
• August 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication available

9) P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update

• Very little status. Most committees are waiting for the Draft release.
• SV-CC will deal with 2468 as a ballot comment.
• The SV-CC will compile the headerfiles from draft 7A.

10) DATE

• Dmitry has submitted a proposal for an assertions tutorial at DATE.

11) New Business

14) Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)

• October 23, 2008 P1800 Meeting teleconference 8am pacific

15) Adjournment

• Mehdi moves that we adjourn at 8:55am.

-- KarenPieper - 11 Sep 2008