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

Is the conference call happening?  When I dial in with the number below, the
pass code is accepted, but the conference "has not been initiated".

Stu
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Stuart Sutherland
stuart@sutherland-hdl.com
+1-503-692-0898
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-ec@server.eda-stds.org 
> [mailto:owner-sv-ec@server.eda-stds.org] On Behalf Of Mehdi Mohtashemi
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:53 AM
> To: sv-ec@server.eda.org
> Subject: [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 
> 
> Toll Free Dial In Number: (888)635-9997 
> PARTICIPANT CODE: 536987# 
> International Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (763)315-6815 
> 
> 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_Mi
> nutes.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
> -----------------------------
>   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
> 
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