[sv-ec]Meeting on Monday August 14 2006, Agenda

 
Next sv-ec meeting is scheduled for 
Monday  August 14th, 2006. 
SV-EC Errata Committee Meeting
Date: Monday, August 14th, 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 June 5th and July 31st 2006 
 http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes/SV-EC_Meeting_July_31_2006_Minutes.txt

3. Update on IEEE 1800 PAR
   The latest 1800 PAR, approved on July 28th, 2006:
  http://standards.ieee.org/board/nes/projects/1800.pdf

  from section 5.5 of the above document:
 5.5 Need for the Project: ....
 "The new revision of the standard will include resolutions and 
  clarifications  to Errata and critical enhancements that will 
  enable successful usage of the  hardware design and verification 
  language.  Furthermore, and as  SystemVerilog is a superset of 
  Verilog, the new revision will merge with  Verilog 1364-2005 
  standard to ensure a single reference manual for users and  EDA 
  vendors alike. The new standard will also enable interoperability 
  with  existing languages such as VHDL and SystemC, as well as 
  integration with  Analog Mixed Signal (AMS)."

 - Voting rights: is reset from this Aug 14th meeting
 - Mantis items/issues review process:
   Review the guidelines. Issues should have proposals before
discussions.
   Previously submitted issues without proposals need be addressed.

4. Action items review
Action items: July 31st, 2006
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  AI: 1490 
      Gord - send an example 2-dimension of array and how to 
	   do the reduction method to Neil.
      Neil - add an example to clarify how to deal with dimensions. 
	   how to write a reduction operation on an array of array of
int.
         - reverse() - take out (unpacked or packed) from current LRM
text.
	 - merge 1490 into 978
         - add text and example for specifying width of result 
          (e.g. using with clause)
  AI: 1437 Dave - update 1437, also include a proposal

From Previous meetings:
 AI: 978 Neil - Take sentence out of 5.15.1, add to 5.15. 
	    Take sentence out of 5.15.3 proposal.
 AI: 890 Cliff and all - send email on the reflector to get the
discussion started
 AI: 1330 Gord - new language proposal to handle the port connection
issues.
 AI: 1330 Dave - examples via email on the issue with ports in
interfaces

5. Name Resolution sub-group update
------------------------------------
   Gord is owner from sv-bc.


6. Review Action item list. [see below] 
-----------------------------------------
 978  5.15 array methods, minor errata  (Shalom/Neil) [see 1270]
1038   array ordering methods    (Shalom)
1490  Array ordering methods on associative arrays  (Dave)  

   possible actions:
   CLOSE 1038   array ordering methods    (Shalom)
   COMBINE 1490 with 978
   CLOSE   1490 Array ordering methods on associative arrays  (Dave)


1437  04-26-06  Prototype syntax for array locator methods in 5.15.1 is
not legal(Dave)
			(similar to 0082)
1457  Problems with Associative arrays and wildcard index type(Dave)
 976    5.9-5.10 clarifications   (Shalom, DaveR) 
1517  07-03-06  Array reduction methods used in constraints  (Dave) 
1330  Missing BNF for parameterized virtual interfaces (Dave) 
      [1324 is duplicate -- can be closed if above approved] 
 890   clarifications in program and clocking blocks (Doug)
1371  03-09-06 Semantic of program block $exit   (DaveR) --
Clarification
1459  05-09-06 Mailbox 'new' method should never return null  (Dave)
1480  05-19-06  method_call_root BNF should use primary, not expression
(Brad)
1515  06-25-06  Localparams should be allowed in classes (BNF) (Brad)
1545  07-20-06  13.12.1: $urandom example error  [Shalom]
1552  08-01-06  Wording of mailbox description - section 14.3 [Neil,
Steven]

6. Next meeting: 
   Proposal: August 31st, 2006