Subject: Minutes for 08/06/2002 meeting Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 18:41:22 -0400 From: Joao Geada To: sv-cc@server.eda.org CC: Joao.Geada@synopsys.com *************************************************************** Next Meeting: Tuesday 08/20 at 12:00 noon east coast time Meetings Schedule and Call Info: PARTICIPANT INFORMATION: ----------------------- All Participants should use the following information to reach the conference call: * PARTICIPANT CODE: 707131 * Toll Free Dial In Number: (877)807-5706 * International Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (225)383-8961 SV-CC (08/06/2002) **************************************************************** Minutes of last meeting 08/06 Attendees: [xxx] Ghassan Khoory (Synopsys, Co-Chair) [xxx] Kevin Cameron (NSC) [xxx] Simon Davidmann (Co-Design) [xx-] Peter Flake (Co-Design) [xxx] Joao Geada (Synopsys) [x--] Tayung Liu (Novas) [xxx] Andrzej Litwiniuk (Synopsys) [x--] Mike McNamara (Verisity) [xxx] Stuart Swan (Cadence) [--x] Francoise Martinole (Cadence) [-xx] Bassam Tabbara (Novas) [--x] Yatin Trivedi [--x] Michael Rohleder (Motorola) [--x] Darryl (Sun) [editor note: I didn't catch Darryl's last name. Sorry] - Yatin introduced himself. He is now the chair for this committee. As stated in a prior email to the group, he stated that he is available for discussions/phone calls. He lives on the West coast, so any reasonable west coast time (after 8am, prior to 10pm) is OK. We went over the agenda and procedural issues. From now the standard procedure will be to review and approve previous minutes at the start of each meeting and then go through the agreed upon agenda. For each task to be handled by this group, the process will be: 1) obtain a requirements document for the task 2) discuss requirements via the email reflects and/or directly between the parties as appropriate 4) form group to create technical spec proposal 5) proposals given to committee - went over results of action items from previous week: * Ghassan/Yatin: Vassilious has restated that it is this committee's responsibility to deal with all the foreign language interfaces: direct foreign language interface assertion API coverage API PLI/VPI enhancements Specifically, the deliverable from this committee is to be the portions of the SystemVerilog standard proposal related to the above APIs Committee will generated the technical specifications, Yatin will edit these into the standards text. Yatin will be the central repository for any documents we generate. * Yatin/Simon communicated that Peter will not be able to complete the action item from last meeting (direct interface requirements) due to other work on his plate. Simon will take over this action item and provide comments/additions/differences over the requirements that Andrzej proposed (instead of creating an independent set of requirements). - Francoise asked if any priority on the 4 APIs given by the main SystemVerilog committee. Ghassan&Yatin stated that no, that priorities are to be established by us. We all agreed to continue with our existing priorities 1- direct interface 2- assertion/coverage API 3- vpi - Francoise asked how we were going to deak with the VPI task. * Joao suggested that this would best be achieved by having a sub-group create a proposal. * Francoise accepted to be lead for that sub-group, as long as we all first agree on VPI enhancement requirements - Francoise asked if there are any global requirements for all the APIs. eg that they all have to interoperate, abilitity to call one API from within another APIs context etc. Similarly, do we have requirements for all the APIs? ** ACTION: Joao: to create proposal for "global requirements" that are to be met by all the APIs ** ACTION: Joao: to create proposal for assertion API requirements ** ACTION: Joao: to create proposal for coverage API requirements ** ACTION: Francoise: create proposal for VPI enhancement requirements All action items above to be submited by 8/15, with goal of reaching approval for all the above by/on the 9/3 meeting. ** ACTION: Yatin: to create process by which requirements/spec proposals will be handled by this group. Process to be given to committee no later than 8/15 ** VOTED: we all approved the minutes of the last (7/23) meeting - there were some questions raised about the donations deadline for the System Verilog standard. The deadline is either September 15 or end of September. ** ACTION: Yatin: to clarify what the real deadline is and communicate to group as soon as possible. Next meeting to be held Aug 20th, same time, same conference number. (details at top of this email) Yatin encouraged us all to discuss proposals via email, and to reach agreement and resolutions in as far as possible prior to the meetings, leaving the meetings primarily for prioritizing and recording official votes. At the moment there is a proposal for the direct foreign language interface requirements, so he'd like us all to discuss that and reach some resolution prior to next meeting. ============================================================================== Joao Geada, PhD Sr. Staff R&D Engineer Verif Tech Group Synopsys, Inc TEL: (508) 263-8083 154 Crane Meadow Road, Suite 300, FAX: (508) 263-8069 Marlboro, MA 01752, USA ==============================================================================