RE: [sv-ac] RE: [sv-bc] Email ballot: Respond by Friday, Februrary 29, 8am PST

Hello,

Please find attached a modified proposal for 1769. Hopefully it
addresses all the outstanding issues.

Regards,
ed


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-ac@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ac@eda.org] On Behalf Of
> Warmke, Doug
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:29 PM
> To: sv-bc@eda.org; Sv-ac@eda.org
> Subject: [sv-ac] RE: [sv-bc] Email ballot: Respond by Friday,
Februrary
> 29, 8am PST
> 
> Hello SV-AC,
> 
> As discussed in the meeting of March 3rd, some of the comments
> on 1769 were correctly incorporated, but others were not.
> 
> This email should be considered the response from SV-BC on this issue.
> 
> The remaining issues that should be addressed:
> 
> 2. Change "severity task" to "severity system task".
>    This is necessary for consistency and clarity.
>    Also, in the first paragraph where the term
>    "severity system task" is first introduced,
>    a cross-reference to 19.9 "Severity System Tasks"
>    is required.
> 3. The phrase "...their activation may be controlled..."
>    in the first paragraph should be changed to
>    "...their activation can be controlled..."
> 4. The term "generate block" should be replaced with
>    "generate construct" throughout the proposal.
> 5. Two usages of "will" are still in the proposal.
> 
>    To be specific, the following usage of "will" should
>    be changed to "shall".
> 
>       "If $fatal is executed then after outputting the message the
> elaboration may be aborted, and in no case simulation will be
executed."
> 
>    The following sentence should be changed as follows:
>    OLD:
>       "Elaboration system tasks are used to indicate if the vector is
just
> a 1-bit vector, otherwise it will issue information messages
indicating
> which conditional branches were generated."
> 
>    NEW:
>       "Elaboration system tasks are used to indicate if the vector is
only
> a 1-bit vector, otherwise informational messages are issued that
indicate
> which conditional branches were generated."
> 
> Regards,
> Doug Warmke
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org]
On
> Behalf Of Warmke, Doug
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 6:17 AM
> To: sv-bc@server.eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-bc] Email ballot: Respond by Friday, Februrary 29,
8am
> PST
> 
> Doug's Votes:
> 
> SVDB 1526 _X_Yes   ___No
> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=1526
> Proposal:
> Covered by resolution of SVDB 1707
> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=1707
> 
> SVDB 1709 _X_Yes   ___No
> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=1709
> Proposal:
> Covered by resolution of SVDB 1707
> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=1707
> 
> SVDB 1769 ___Yes   _X_No
> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=1769
> 
> Will change vote to Yes once the following have been resolved.
> (Some are very minor)
> 1. The $warning task in the intro area has an extra space after the
'$'.
> 2. The term "error task" is used in several places in this proposal.
>    It should be "severity system task", in light of approved Mantis
1641.
>    A cross-reference to "19.9 Severity System Tasks" should be made,
too.
> 3. In terms of generate constructs, why only conditional generates?
>    These would be useful in case and loop generates as well.
>    In fact, your 2nd example contains a usage inside loop generate.
> 4. s/generate block/generate construct/g
> 5. Various "will" should be "shall", as per IEEE convention
> 6. In the first example, there is a module with a parameter_port_list
>    that contains an assignment to the illegal value of 12.  In light
>    of Mantis 907, I think you should simply leave off that "= 12".
>    That would indicate that the user of the module is expected to
>    provide a parameter value, and that the parameter value better
>    be legal.  One more minor suggestion would be to change the user
>    error message in this case to indicate the legal range of values.
>    Was:
>      $error("Parameter N has an invalid value of %0d", N);
>    Could be:
>      $error("Parameter N has an invalid value of %0d. Legal values are
2
> through 7, inclusive.", N);
> 7. The generate/endgenerate in the 2nd example is not necessary.
>    But it could be kept for the clarity of the example.
> 
> SVDB 2089 ___Yes   ___No   _X_ Abstain
> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=2089
> 
> Checkers is a huge topic.
> I haven't had time to digest it fully, thus my abstention on this.
> In general this addition to 1900 seems reasonable to me, though,
> in terms of the incremental additions.
> 
> Regards,
> Doug
> 
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