IEEE P1076.1 Working Group Telco Meeting Minutes - December 11, 2013, 8am PST (16:00 UTC)

Status: approved January 15,2014

Attendees

• Ernst Christen, Mentor Graphics (WG chair)
• Zhichao Deng, Synopsys (vice-chair)
• Alain Vachoux, EPFL (LRM editor)
• Enrique Reyes Archundia, Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia, Mexico (webex only)

This was a web meeting. The main discussion topics of the meeting are covered by the meeting slides. The minutes complement the meeting slides.

Agenda

• Call to order
• Approval of agenda
• Administrative issues
  • Minutes of October 9, 2013 meeting
  • Review of IEEE patent policy
  • Officer Elections
  • Netsuite
• Project status and updates
• Next meeting
• AOB
• Adjourn

Call to order

Ernst started the meeting at 8:06 am PST. We have a quorum.

Approval of agenda

Alain moves, Zhichao seconds.

Administrative issues

Approval of October 9, 2013 minutes
After correction of a typo, the October 9 minutes were approved, with a motion by Zhichao seconded by Alain.

Patent policy
Ernst offered to show the patent policy, but presentation was unnecessary since the attendees are all regulars.

Officer Elections
Ernst reported the results of the Officer election announced earlier this week by the Returning Officer Joachim Haase. The incumbents were reelected for another 2-year term. The election of chair and vice-chair will have to be confirmed by the DASC at its next opportunity.

Netsuite
To simplify the annual reporting of the financial activities of Working Groups, IEEE-SA has introduced the financial parts of the business management suite NetSuite. WG chairs and treasurers were required to attend a training session earlier this month. At this time NetSuite is not linked with Concentration Banking, i.e. information has to be transferred manually. There is hope that this will change in the future.

Project status and update

Ernst presented a status of the WG activities. Given that the P1076.1 PAR ends on December 31, 2015 he concluded that the different projects should be completed by Q1 2015 at the latest to have enough lead time for LRM writing/review, ballot, ballot resolution and recirculation ballot. Alain remarked that the time line is realistic. Based on a list of projects considered for this revision of the language, their perceived status and the participation in the development of these projects Ernst postulates that we cannot do everything in the remaining 12-15 months. He requests that each project champion presents a plan at the next WG meeting for their project(s). A consensus should be reached by the end of February 2014 about which projects to pursue.

Some further details:

• LRM work: Clauses 1-11 of the LRM have been converted, but only 1-6 have been completely verified.
• Vector/Matrix operations: Mostly done as a prototype. Open issues: Are use models complete? Should there be coordination with the HDLMath SV effort?
• Q'Slew issue: Ernst proposes this to be handled as a maintenance issue, tracked through an IR.

Next meeting

Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 8.00am PST (16:00 UTC) - Tentative. Alain will be on vacation then.

AOB

No other business.

Adjourn

The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 am PST.

-- JoachimHaase - 2014-01-03