1076.1-2007 Revision

Latest news

The amended P1076.1 PAR has been approved by IEEE NesCom on May 9, 2007.

The P1076.1-2007 draft LRM has been approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board on May 17, 2007. The revised P1076.1-2007 LRM will be published no later than 6 months after approval.

The IEEE Std 1076.1-2007 has been published On November 15, 2007.

Revision history

The 1076.1 standard is in the process to be revised and re-balotted in 2006. The revision will clarify a number of language definitions and will fix typos in the 1076-1999 Language Reference Manual. It is not planned to include new functionalities in the language.

Here is a number of documents that form the basis of the revision work:

  • An errata sheet for IEEE Std 1076.1-1999 LRM (pdf)
  • Issue requests (txt):
    • IR1.99.01: Use of Q'Above(E)
    • IR1.99.02: Step limit specification
    • IR1.99.03: Definition of std.standard.now returning Real and Tc
    • IR1.99.04: Where can BREAK occur?
    • IR1.99.05: Reference terminal clarification
    • IR1.99.06: What is the value of S'Event and S'Active in an ASP?
    • IR1.99.07: Q'integ'dot and Q'dot'integ are ambiguous
    • IR1.99.08: Typographical errors, minor definitional issues
    • IR1.99.09: Various language definition problems
  • The draft 1076.1-2006 Language Reference Manual
    (the draft was only made available for the working group review)
    • P1076.1-2006-D2.8.pdf (April 14, 2006)

The 1076.1 Language Design Committee is still working on these documents. Please send any feedback to either Ernst Christen or Alain Vachoux.

The technical editor for the 1076.1-2006 LRM is Peter Ashenden.

On May 31, 2006, the Working Group approved the issue request resolutions and the D2.8 draft LRM with a number of comments (vote details here). A new version of the draft LRM including changes from the vote comments is now being developed. It will be submitted to a forthcoming IEEE ballot.

On September 28, 2006, the IEEE ballot closed with the following results:

P1076.1 Standard VHDL Analog and Mixed-Signal Extensions

Ballot Open Date:    08/29/2006
Ballot Close Date:   09/28/2006

RESPONSE RATE
This ballot has met the 75% returned ballot requirement.

42 eligible people in this ballot group.

31 affirmative votes
1  negative votes with comments
0  negative votes without comments
2  abstention votes
-- 
34 votes received = 81% returned
                     6% abstention

APPROVAL RATE
The 75% affirmation requirement is being met.
31 affirmative votes
1  negative votes with comments
-- 
32 votes = 97% affirmative

Ballot comments and resolutions are available here. Since no technical changes have been made to the LRM document, no further ballot recirculation was felt necessary.

However, when submitting the ballot package to IEEE RevCom on February 2007, we have been asked to make another 10-day recirculation and also to amend the 1076.1 PAR to remove dependency on the upcoming 1076-2007 standard.

The ballot recirculation happened between March 28 and April 7, 2007. As a result, the single negative vote has been changed to approve, then reaching 100% approval.
In parallel, the amendment to the P1076.1 PAR, which formally makes the P1076.1-2007 draft depending on 1076-2002, has been submitted to IEEE NesCom for its April 30 meeting. The RevCom meeting will be on June 6. It is expected that the 1076.1 revision will be formally approved at that time.