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---+ P1076 May 24, 2012 Meeting Minutes
---++ Attendees:
   * Main.JimLewis * Main.RyanHinton * Main.MartinThompson * Main.HansTiggeler * Main.JarekKaczynski
---++ Agenda:
   * Approve April 19 Meeting Minutes. Motion: Hans 2nd: Ryan
   * Approve May 10 Meeting Minutes. Motion: Martin 2nd: Hans
   * Call for proposals for new items
   * Call for volunteers to work on proposals
   * Looking for team leader for ISAC
   * Review updated proposals 
      * [[http://www.eda.org/twiki/bin/view.cgi/P1076/WebRss][RSS of recent changes]]
   * Review requirements lists from VHDL-200X/Accellera effort 
      * Assign owners to raw items and work toward proposals
   * Review items in the [[http://www.eda.org/twiki/bin/view.cgi/P1076/Vhdl2019CollectedRequirements][collected requirements list]]
   * Review [[IssueScreening][ISAC issues and Bugzilla]]
---++ Where to host packages?
   * Allows team review and approve for merging 
      * Launch Pad - allows team review
      * Git hub - may only allow one person to do it.
      * mercurial - ?
      * bit bucket
   * Cost 
      * Some free for open source
---++ Review of Items from old proposals
   * Slicing Multidimensional arrays - FT15 - Ryan
   * If Expression - FT10A - 
      * worth unarchiving? Syntax was bad - replace "," with else
      * alternative have a function - no language change required. 
         * Could offer great flexability wrt 'X' on input

---++ Review of Items from TBV Proposals
   * TBV1 - in 2008
   * TBV2 - associative arrays - Martin 
      * Static key type. Static return type.
      * [extension]key types where potentially each entry may use a different type for the key
      * functions?
   * TBV3 - Fork and Join - Need use models and volunteer - Peter Flake? 
      * Ryan - use case forking for checkers - potentially use scoreboard instead
   * TBV4 - FIFO - Jim 
      * Unsized
      * Sized - would need handshaking to indicate push not successful
   * TBV5 - Improved Textio - in 2008
   * TBV6 - unclear - need use model 
      * assign image value for identifier-based enumeration literals - alternate to default
      * Did they want to assign position value s.t. can create the state vector value 
         * perhaps use different attribute than 'pos to get at the value
   * TBV7 - Standardized synchronization and handshaking methods - Jim 
      * sync methods for concurrent processes.
   * TBV8 - Request action / wait for action - subset of tbv7
---++ Action Items:
   * Interfaces - Jim
   * Where to host packages?
---++ Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday June 14, 8 am Pacific

Thursday June 28, 8 am Pacific
Topic revision: r4 - 2020-02-17 - 15:36:12 - JimLewis
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