Minutes of BTF Meeting June 16, 2003

From: Steven Sharp (sharp@cadence.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 12:49:55 PDT

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    Minutes of BTF Meeting June 16, 2003

    Meeting started at 11:20 Pacific time.

    In attendance:
            Steven Sharp
            Karen Pieper
            Kurt Baty
            David Smith
            Stu Sutherland
            Dennis Brophy
            Brad Pierce
            Stefen Boyd
            Gord Vreugdenhil
            Jay Lawrence
            Tom Fitzpatrick

    Passed minutes from May 19, 2003.

    Kurt's report on input gathering at DAC:
    ~30 people maximum were in attendance.
    Most were committee people, EDA vendors, and a reporter, only one other
    user not associated with committees already. Mac will provide the data
    that was gathered. Kurt felt that this event did not accomplish the
    goal of gathering user input, and has proposed further user input
    gathering.

    Planning more user input gathering:

    Kurt suggested gathering more input at SNUG and ICU.
    Jay and Fitz agree to attend and monitor both, if possible.
    Kurt noted that while Cadence Users Group conference may be less Verilog-
    oriented, they may have more input on Verilog-AMS-oriented things.

    Other possible contacts:
            Accellera Designers Forum, via Stu
            Cooley's ESNUG
            Janick Bergeron has a list
            Cadence's TalkVerilog
            Newsgroup comp.lang.verilog

    Discussion of whether we already have most of the candidates for extensions
    and mostly need to prioritize them, or whether we need to concentrate on
    getting more candidates and avoid biasing users by providing candidates.
    Stuart suggests a 2-stage approach, getting candidates at meetings, and
    is reluctantly willing to organize web-page to do balloting on candidates
    later. Jay expresses concern about extra delay, and difficulty getting
    users to come back for second pass. Jay volunteers to help draft a list
    of candidates, with open slots for user write-in ideas. The list would
    need to be reviewed by BTF, and would need to be done in time to be
    reviewed and available before the events (and possibly emailed out
    beforehand). Tom and Stu agree to help with this task. Moved and
    seconded, passes.

    Kurt will drive getting these sessions added to SNUG and ICU.

    Future BTF meetings:
    Continuing meetings after VSG and ETF meetings, every 2 weeks, skipping
    June 30, for 1.5 hours each. Moved and seconded, passes.

    Next meeting July 14, 10:30 to 12:00 Pacific time.

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