[1076.1] Report on working group meeting on March 8

Dear Working Group member,

Please find attached the report on the Working Group meeting that has 
been held in Münich, Germany on March 8. The slides are available in the 
web site (http://www.vhdl-ams.eda.org, 'Meetings' link).

Best regards,
Alain Vachoux
P1076.1 chair

IEEE 1076.1 working group meeting report
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March 8 2006, Münich

Report and related files are available at http://www.eda-twiki.org/vhdl-ams/.

Meeting attendees:
   Joachim Haase, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS
   Ewald Hessel, Ella KGaA
   Thomas Ilfstöm, Bosch AE/EIM3
   Tom Kazmierski, Southampton University, WG Secretary
   Anirban Lahiri, Philips
   Arpad Muranyi, Intel Corp.
   Stpehan Oppl, Bosch AE/EIM3
   François Pêcheux, VPMC/LIP6
   Alain Vachoux, EPFL, WG Chair

Agenda:
   1. Working group status update
   2. Suggestions for future functionalities
   3. Open contributions & discussion
   4. Next WG meetings
   5. Other business

Alain opened the meeting at 12h45.


1. Working group status update
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See meeting slides #3 to #6.
Alain presented the status of the ongoing IEEE revision process, essentially the 
funding of the LRM work, the time schedule and the content of the balloted 
material. He recalled the conditions to be a working group voting member.


2. Suggestions for future functionalities
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See meeting slide #7.
Alain presented again a slide from Ernst's presentation at the previous working 
group meeting in Lausanne. The goal was to reaffirm the status of new 
suggestions and ask for further work when applicable.


3. Open contributions & discussion
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See Joachim's slides.
Joachim presented some issues related to the use of the 1076.1 standard for 
developing model libraries. He then focused on a list of requirements 
supporting the creation of a standard package for the development of table 
lookup (TLU) models.
Regarding TLU models, Arpad raised a couple of issues:
- The TLU functions should be able to read files whose names are passed as 
variable arguments.
- The performance of the table accesses and related computations (e.g. 
interpolation) is a critical issue.
Joachim gathered a first list of requirements for developing TLU models in a 
white paper. He proposed to work on it further before making it available in the 
web site for further discussion.


4. Next WG meetings
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See meeting slide #8.


5. Other business
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None.

Alain closed the meeting at 14h15.