[sv-ec]Next meeting, June 5th, and minutes of previous sv-ec meeting

From: Mehdi Mohtashemi <Mehdi.Mohtashemi_at_.....>
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 13:44:51 PDT
The minutes of May 22nd sv-ec meeting has been posted on
sv-ec site.

Next sv-ec meeting is scheduled for Monday  June 5th , 2006. 
SV-EC Errata Committee Meeting 
Date: Monday, May 8th, 2006 
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm PST 

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Agenda: 
1) Review IEEE patent policy 
  http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt
  
2) Review Meeting minutes, of and May 22nd 2006  
http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes/SV-EC_Meeting_May_22_2006_Minutes.txt 

3) Review Action item list.
4) Mantis items, listing items with Proposals. 
5) Next meeting.  (June 19th) 

=================== Details ============================ 
3) Review Action item list: 
Here is list of action items from previous meetings. 
=================  Action Items             ============
Action items: May 22, 2006
-------------------------
   AI: 1313  Gord - update proposal that will use min/max terminology 
    and that outside of the range specifies an empty bin.
   AI: 1313  ALL members: to review and send any comments    
   AI:  889 Ray - redo 889 proposal

Action items: May 8, 2006
-------------------------
   AI: 1256 Gord - will add some comments (bug notes) to mantis 1256.  
   AI: 976  Dave - put a proper proposal in place
   AI: 960  Mehdi - discuss this with Matt to resolve the overlap.

Action items: April 10, 2006
-----------------------------
   AI: 1330 Dave, add the example   list to do.
   AI: 261/262 combined
        Steven   put together some examples of overflow  --
        Arturo   unsigned/signed examples.      
   AI: 'this' question from M. Burns,
   Dave: review and discuss with Gord and create a mantis item.
      (this as a default argument )

Action items: March 27 2006
----------------------------
   AI: 1306 Ray a bug note to this mantis item. 
       may want to drop.
   Action items: March 13, 2006
   ----------------------------
    AI: new item - Gordon to create a new mantis item for randomize()
method 
        call item (Ray, Gordon have discussed - still working on it
internally)
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4. Mantis Items 

Coverage Related: 
---------------------------------------- 
 1313   No definition for coverpoint and bin expression type rules 

Randomization/Constraint related 
--------------------------------- 
 889 (Randomization)clarifications for resizing dynamic arrays (Doug) 
1382  03-13-06  rand_mode settings after a shallow copy or assignment
(Neil/Ray) 

Miscellaneous 
--------------------------------- 
 978  5.15 array methods, minor errata  (Shalom/Neil) [see 1270] 
 960  one dimension     (assigned) (Brad)  [also 1447 sv-bc] 
1330  Missing BNF for parameterized virtual interfaces (Dave) 
 [1324 is duplicate -- can be closed if above approved] 
1424  process::resume() should be a function (not a task)  (Neil) 
1436  Typos in sub-clause 20.8 Virtual interfaces - example (Neil) 
1451  Clarify that wait fork only blocks for immediate child
subprocesses.(Dave) 
1457  Problems with Associative arrays and wildcard index type  (Dave) 
1459  Mailbox 'new' method should never return null  (Dave) 
1474  wildcard bins (clarification)  (Ray) 
1480  method_call_root BNF should use primary, not expression  (Brad) 

scheduling/clocking/program block 
---------------------------- 
 890   clarifications in program and clocking blocks (Doug) 
1325   default clock block  (from SV-AC)


5.) List of all other submitted errata mantis items without proposal. 
-------------------------------------------------------------------- 
I am also listing errata mantis items below that need proposals, 
with submitter names, it would help i those folsk can create 
proposal for the errata items if they feel they are valid. 

  Francoise: 
  ---------- 
  -   802  assigning too many elements in the queue (Francoise) 
  -   522  use of concatenation in 5.14.2 (Francoise) 
  -   521  pattern assignment for queues  (Francoise) 
  -   520  example of queues assignment   (Francoise) 
  -   519  section 5.14,empty array literal syntax (Francoise)  
  -   518  queues and arrays     (Francoise) 
  -   517  concatenation syntax usage section 5.14 (Francoise) 
  -   511  related to section 12.25     (Francoise) 
  -  1312  wait_order specification with repeated events (Franciose) 

  Steven: 
  -------- 
  -   339    typos in queue methods  4.14.2 (Sharp)             [Neil] 
  -   412  5.14.1 queue operators (Sharp) 
  -   564  Cross-program variable access (Sharp) 
  -   553  Program block exit semantics (Sharp) 
  -   551  Program block interaction with queues (Sharp)  
  -.  549  Issues with Section 15 on Scheduling Semantics (Sharp) 
  -   219  disable/return fork/join    (assigned) (Sharp) 
  -  1363  Behavior of join_any containing no statements is unclear
(Sharp) 
  -  1415  behavior of foreach with no loop variables not specified
(Sharp) clarification 
  -  1441  20.8 restriction on virtual interfaces in "sensitivity list" 
                   not defined (sharp) 

  Shalom: 
  ------ 
  -   958   dynamic array size method   (Shalom)                [Neil] 
  -   974   dynamic arrays/queues comparison       (Shalom) 
  -   975   related to 5.9, illegal for index_type (Shalom) 
  -   976   5.9-5.10 clarifications   (Shalom, DaveR) 
  -  1038   array ordering methods    (Shalom) 
  -  1349  fork/join_none: what if parent thread terminates without
blocking statement? 
  -  1417  1.2 mentions queues twice  (Shalom)  (clarification)  

  Dave: 
  ----- 
  -   885    syntax typo in description (queue)   (DaveR) 
  -  1384  bit stream cast and pack/unpack for protected./local members
(DaveR,Neil) 


  Ray: 
  ---- 
  -  1391  Invalid example code using 'process::self.srandom(100)'
(Ray) 
  -  1421  static method 'get_coverage' cannot have 'ref' arguments
(Ray) 
  
  Gord: 
  ----- 
  -  1256  description of linked list (annex D) (Brad) Gord) 

  Brad: 
  ---- 
  -   968    list package (should be covered by 1256 sv-ec & 1412 sv-bc)
(Brad) 
  *  1427  dynamic_array_new  (Brad) -- need a .pdf/.html format file
from the text 

  Mehdi: 
  ----- 
  -   346    usage of word string (from 275) (Mehdi) 
 
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