Phone Conference P1450.1 Working Doc Subgroup
Thurs Feb 14, 10:00 am PST
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Attendees:
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Jim Teisher
Tony Taylor
Greg Maston
Doug Sprague
Peter Wohl

Agenda
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- Continue resolution of internal review cycle and finalize draft 13 
  document containing reviewer resolutions. Focus on red text in
  resolution document (indicating open issues).

- Discuss recommended usage doc and dot0 clarification doc as
  distributed by Greg

Issues
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DM-1 again: Changed syntax from last meeting (->) to colons and
double-colons (:). Additional discussions with .6 suggested ordering
to be:

    INSTANCE:SCANSTRUCT_NAME::CHAIN_NAME

Discussed option to present the scanstruct_name to be optional, if not
present then chain_name is found in current scanstructure. Initially
proposed:

    INSTANCE:CHAIN_NAME

But parsing would be better if:

    INSTANCE::CHAIN_NAME

Presented the .6 perspective on this construct:

    core_inst:signal_domain::signal_name

Recommend to .6 to use this construct:

    core_inst::signal_name

Greg stated that having the scanstruct name as optional is valid for
an ASIC-library context, where cells are being described
hierarchically. This allows internal hierarchical cells to be
described without reference to the scanstruct name, which reduces the
number of occurances of this name when this scanstruct gets integrated
with other scanstructs... so Greg recommends support for the optional
construct. 

Discussed the option to use ':' only. This makes parsing of this
statement more complex because you cannot interprete the statement
until the whole statement has been parsed and determined whether one
':' or two ':' were seen in the statement.

Doug proposed the following to allow ourselves to dig out from this hole:

    INSTANCE:SCANSTRUCT_NAME:CHAIN_NAME

    INSTANCE::CHAIN_NAME

This was accepted by the group and allows us to define our construct
and simplify parsing at the same time.

JC2: group agrees with the wording of this.

DS4: Greg's AI, still.

DS6: Agree with removal of commas.

DS7: Doug's AI, still.

DS14: Tony hasn't pasted email in here, yet.

DS15: recommended usage of filetypes, etc. After distributing the
current recommendation doc, .6 expressed concern about having conflict
between our recommendations and their definitions.

Acceptance to put this doc on the web.

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Dot-zero clarifications - Doug will send email around about internal
review.

Commitment made to wrap-up the D12 document by next meeting, to close
on the remaining 3 issues above and respond to reviewers.

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Next Meeting
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in two weeks; Feb 28, 2002.

AIs
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[AI0] Tony - change scanstruct hierarchy constructs as identified.
[AI1] Tony - talk to Adam about placing recommended usage doc on web.
[AI2] Greg - make identified changes to the recommended usage doc.
[AI4] Greg to rewite last paragraph of section 6.1
[AI5] Doug to provide expression-type-clarification diagram or text.
[AI6] Tony to put Doug's X-stmnt-position-add't into resolution doc.