DASC Conference Call - Unapproved Meeting Minutes

June 25, 2009 8:00 AM PDT

Attendees:

  • Victor Berman
  • Bill Hanna
  • Dennis Brophy
  • Karen Pieper
  • Yatin Trivedi
  • Steve Dovich
  • Ernst Christen
  • Tucker Brown
  • Chuck Berking
  • Perry Alexander
  • Darren Galpin
  • Joe Hupcey
  • Chuck Swart
  • Steve Bailey
  • Mike McNamara
  • Ron Waxman
  • Andrew Piziali
  • Kathy Werner

Agenda:

1. Call to order

6/25 at 8:05 AM PDT
1.1 Quorum call

We have quorum

2. Approval of Agenda

Motion to approve by Andy P., seconded by Yatin.
Approved unanimously.

3. Approval of Minutes of Last Meeting

Motion to approve by Ernst, and seconded by Ron W.
Approved unanimously.

4. Entity membership update

Result of votes on amended P&Ps,

Victor reported that the email vote ended 6/18 and was passed by 9 of 17 eligible voters, but several comments were received during the voting period, so opened the floor to discussion. Mike Mc noted that if an individual member votes for an entity, the vote is credited to the entity and the individual is credited with “present”, however the inverse is not true. Yatin noted that this should not be an issue since the representative has an ethical responsibility to represent the entity. Dennis said JEDA want an entity rep on the DASC and that generally an entity rep would not pay individual dues. Yatin noted that there may have been confusion to which “entity” level the vote and discussion pertained: IEEE, DASC, Accellera. The vote was strictly for DASC.

AI: Victor to update the DASC P&Ps.

5. Working Group Status – updates from the chairs

P1801revision PAR draft – Steve D

The work was approved in March and the proposed revision is to issues arising from implementation: ambiguities, bugs, and enhancements, but no major functional changes. Two examples: 1) supporting an RTL switch in UPF that is implemented as 1 control/acknowledge signal into a series, 2) work with IP-XACT. The group has been using the Mantis database to track issues and plans to institute a deadline for change requests to be included in the next release. Planning meetings have already started.

Motion to approve revision PAR by Kathy, seconded by Yatin.

Approved unanimously.

P1685

Ballot pool notices sent and the group will start weekly meetings on 7/1. The group is entity-based, and the link to meeting place is open.

AI: Victor to verify the P&P’s and office elections have been approved by DASC.

6. Report from Chair on DASC/SA activities

The IEEE SB met in Japan last week. An ad hoc committee was formed to look into defining “standard” as there is currently no approved definition. Any comments into this activity should be directed to Victor. There was a question on whether there is a standard definition for rule, guideline, etc. and whether the dictionary definition should be used rather than trying to come up with a new definition.

7. AOB

SPIRIT and Accellera recently announced plans to merge, which is seen as positive for the industry.

Accellera also recently approved a new IPR policy which is essentially the same as IEEE.

Victor asked whether we should have a face to face meeting at DAC. There was discussion on what time but since DAC runs until noon, it was suggested to move to the afternoon rather than the normal meeting time.

AI: Victor to send out an email to poll DAC attendance and for room suggestions.

8. Next meeting: Tentatively at DAC with dial in, July 30, 2009at 1:00 PM PDT

9. Meeting adjourned at 8:45 AM PDT