Minutes of BTF meeting on July 12th 2004

From: Alec Stanculescu (alec@fintronic.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 13:10:17 PDT

  • Next message: Clifford E. Cummings: "Re: Minutes of BTF meeting on July 12th 2004"

    Alec opened the meeting at meeting started at 10:40am on Monday, July
    12, 2004.

    Participants:

    Steve Dovich
    Tom Fitzpatrick
    Alec Stanculescu
    Francoise Martinole
    Karen Pieper
    Kurt Baty

    Minutes from July 1st were approved.

    ALec reminded everybody that the IEEE patent policy was discussed
    during the VSG meeting which finished at 9:35am the same day, which
    all present attended and therefore it should be fresh in everybody's
    mind. Nobody objected.

    Alec invited Steve Dovich to present the status of the Encryption
    working group. Steve stated that it is waiting for feedback from the
    BTF on whether to use formal comments or compiler directive/pragma syntax.

    Karen moved to favor a compiler directive/pragma syntax and Kurt Baty
    seconded. All were in favor of this motion and the motion carried.

    Steve Dovich will present to the group a comparison of the advantages
    and disadvantages of a specific compiler directive approach vs a
    general pragma approach for supporting encryption.

    Francoise Maritnole raised the issue of the Database of 1364,
    expressing concern that it may be closed after July 16th, based on an
    e-mail she received from Vassilios. Kurt
    mentioned that it is his impression that Stefen Boyd is not motivated
    to continue the same amount of support. Alec mentioned that the does
    not believe that Stefen will close the data base on his own will
    without talking to the group and asking for somebody else to support
    it in case he cannot do it anymore, nor that Stefen will be ordered by
    someone else to close it.

    Also, Alec stated that the standardization of SystemVerilog and its
    relationship with Verilog is of great interest to IEC, since Verilog is
    an IEC standard as well, and that the WG1 of the TC93 of IEC will work
    on this issue and produce reports which will be processed by the IEEE
    in accordance with the Dual Logo Agreement that exists between the
    IEEE and IEC. Therefore, it is unlikely and it would be irresponsible
    to loose any information currently stored within the 1364 database.

    The data type group will meet again on July 22nd. The prioritization
    group will meet on July 19th at 8:30am PST and the BTF will meet again on
    July 26th at 10:30am PST.

    The meeting adjourned at 11:45am PST.

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Mon Jul 12 2004 - 13:09:30 PDT and
    sponsored by Boyd Technology, Inc.