Comments concerning Accellera-IEEE Verilog Standards Statement

From: Clifford E. Cummings (cliffc@sunburst-design.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 08:22:16 PDT


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I have received back a couple of good comments that I wanted to share with all.

More comments?

Regards - Cliff

At 07:30 AM 7/16/02 +0300, Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Something about the proposal is not clear to me.
>
>You propose that Accellera work off the IEEE 1364-2001 document.
>
>However, IEEE 1364 is also going to do modifications to the same document.
>
>It seems to me that we will still have a synchronization problem.
>
>But I admit that it should reduce the magnitude of the problem tremendously.
>
>Shalom

The actual intent is to only have one committee to do the work for both
IEEE and Accellera. I will look at the wording to see if I can clarify this
point.

At 01:30 PM 7/17/02 -0700, Gordon Vreugdenhil wrote:
>Cliff, I read over the letter and agree with it. My only concern
>would be that it might be good to add a bit more emphasis on
>having Accellera being a vehicle for releasing interim versions
>of the standard and helping to coordinate vendor feedback. In
>a sense Accellera becomes a "vendor task force" working with the
>committee. Assuming that's what you were getting at, it might
>be useful to clarify that a bit.
>
>Gord.

I like this idea and this is roughly the intent.

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