[sv-ec] Meeting Monday September 11, 2006, SV-EC, Agenda

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Next sv-ec meeting is scheduled for
Monday  September 11th, 2006. 
SV-EC Errata Committee Meeting
Date: Monday, September 11th, 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 August 28th 2006
 
http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes/SV-EC_Meeting_August_28_2006_Minutes.tx
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3. Action items review
Action items: August 28th, 2006
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  AI: general:  Mehdi - update status on approved/closed mantis items 
	from August 14th and August 28th.
  AI:  follow-up to mantis 978
    Neil - rewrite unique(), the first 2 sentences appear to be
contradictory. 
	 - Make sure that it is clear that array elements are returned. 
	 - Add some examples for unique().
    Neil - Array reduction methods can operate on arrays of non-integral
values
	  when a with clause is specified, as long as the type of the
expression
	  is an integral value.
    Gord - re-write section 5.15.4 - only the default argument value
makes sense.
    Dave - what order is used for find and find_index 
          (e.g. traversal is left to right of the bounds,
		associative is min to max)
        - 5.15.1 - change last sentence in first paragraph.
   All  - can anyone come up with a realistic example? (last example
5.15.4)
        - not only where you would need it but also what does it mean.

  AI: 1437:  Dave, post a proposal.

From Previous meetings:
 AI: 890 Cliff and all - send email on the reflector to get the
discussion started

4. Name Resolution sub-group update
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  Gord.

5. Review Action item list. [see below]
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1437  04-26-06  Prototype syntax for array locator methods in 5.15.1 is
not legal(Dave)
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]
1576  08-30-06  In 5.15.1 unique and unique_index need to be reworded  
 890  08-31-06  clarifications in program and clocking blocks (Doug)
1371  03-09-06  Semantic of program block $exit   (DaveR)
--Clarification
1575  08-29-06  Coverpoints on nets/wires   (proposal should be created
in the right format)
1500  06-07-06  Forward typedef of a class is only to declare instances
of that type (Dave) 
1580  09-04-06  Access to interface objects via virtual interface (Dave)


6. Next meeting: 
   Proposal: September 25, 2006