[sv-ec] Meeting Monday December 18 2006,

Date: Monday, December  18 , 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.ppt2     
  
2.  Review meeting minutes/Notes: 
  a) Review meeting minutes of October 23rd 2006  
http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ec/Minutes/SV-EC_Meeting_October_23_2006_Minu
tes.txt 

  b) Review meeting minutes of December 4 2006 
    (not yet available on the web)

3. Action items review 
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 AI on 890:   
   Francoise: contact svcc on pli regions
   Doug: start with the changes in the 890 mantis

Action items: Previous meetings
 AI:  follow-up to mantis 978
   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.
 

4. Name Resolution sub-group update 
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5. Continue review and discussion on Mantis 890 and related mantis items
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   890  08-31-06  clarifications in program and clocking blocks (Doug)
   and 
       Additional mantis items
       236 - should be resolved... ##0
       239 - will close  it  
       597 - AC ; close this one
       608 - being clarified.
       609 - association of clocking block,  need a syntactic form.
      1325 - was closed by SVAC - unnamed clocking blocks
      1615 - was approved already - allows fork/join_none within
functions
       564 - Cross-program variable access (Sharp)   [recommendation: to
close]
       553 - Program block exit semantics (Sharp)
       551 - Program block interaction with queues (Sharp)

7. Next meetings  
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   Proposal:  January  15 2007