IEEE P1076.1 Working Group Telco Meeting Minutes - January 15, 2014, 8am PST (16:00 UTC)

Status: approved by WG on February 12, 2014

Attendees

• Ernst Christen, Mentor Graphics (WG chair)
• Zhichao Deng, Synopsys (Vice-chair)
• David Smith (Treasurer)
• Joachim Haase (note taker)

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 December 11, 2013 meeting
  • Review of IEEE patent policy
• Project status and updates
• Next meeting
• AOB
• Adjourn

Call to order

Ernst started the meeting at 8:04 am PST. We have a quorum.

Approval of agenda

Joachim moves, David seconds.

Administrative issues

Approval of October 9, 2013 minutes
The December 11, 2014 minutes were approved, with a motion by David seconded by Joachim.After the meeting, Ernst confirmed via email that the IRs that are specific to the revision can be found under the P1076.1-201X Revision link, Maintenance projects, issue requests.

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

Project status and update

Status of projects considered for the current revision of the language was presented and discussed.

Baseline LRM (presented by Ernst Christen)
Starting point for this work was the VHDL-2008 LRM document without tags that was provided by Peter Asheden. Ernst clarified with Alain Vachoux (LRM editor) that there is no need to prepare a version of the material that allows to create a fully P1076.1-2007 LRM. Alain will update the material of the LRM P1076.1X LRM editing area after his vacation.

VHPI-AMS (presented by David Smith)
David is working on the VHPI-AMS project. It is planned to complete the work by December 2014. Minor issues should be done directly in the LRM document. Mandatory LRM updates must be coordinated.

Integration of packages defines by IEEE Std 1076.1.1 (presented by David Smith)
David presented the status of the IEEE Std 1076.1.1 integration. He suggested to drop the dimension interoperability support because it is not essential. Ernst can provide a Microsoft Word document that covers the current IEEE Std 1076.1.1. This document must be converted into a Framemaker document. Detailed discussion on this topic was shifted to the next meeting. No changes of the time line are necessary.

Mandatory LRM Changes (presented by Ernst Chisten)
Goals are to update 1076.1-specific definitions to reflect 1076-2008 enhancements, to handle errata, and to add minor enhancements. This concerns for instance 'LFT attribute described by roots and clarification of Q'LEW attribute. In summary, about 11 months are needed for this project. It is planned to finish before the end of the year.

Frequency Domain Modelling (presentd by Ernst Christen)
The Frequency Domain Modelling subcommittee finished a proposal on this topic. Approval by the WG is outstanding. There is no time frame concerning next steps.

Mixed Netlists (presentd by Ernst Christen)
Mixed Netlists would be a major project. The types can be extended by the user. This fact makes the problem more complicated than in Verilog-AMS. Futhermore, problems occur to consider the requirements of tools that handle different languages. Finally, the question occurs whether the resources are available to carry out the work on the project. All these circumstances make the project to a candidate that should be dropped.

Table-Driven Modelling (presented by Joachim Haase)
It is intended to restart the TDM project in February. Details can be found in the meeting slides. It should be checked whether a coordination with the P1076 group is necessary. Ernst suggests to contact Jim Lewis.

Vector/Matrix Operations (presented by Zhichao Deng)
Zhichao will restart the Vector/Matrix Operations project. A coordination with the P1076 group must be done. Ernst would participate in coordination effort with David Bishop.

Next steps
- Discussion about project disposition
- Between WG members first
- On reflector
- Coordination with P1076 WG
- The process for LRM updates regarding changes defined in the projects must be defined.
- Vote on priority of projects by the WG should be done by end of February or begin of March.

Next meetings

WG meetings take place in general on the second Wednesday of a month. They are announced at the Working Group web site (Administration). Next dates

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 8.00am PST (16:00 UTC).
Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 8.00am PDT (15:00 UTC) (tentative).

AOB

No other business.

Adjourn

The meeting was adjourned at 9:33 am PST.

-- JoachimHaase - 2014-01-17