Minutes of the P1500 Meeting at DAC 2003

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Discussions

1. A discussion occurred on the difficulty of integrating 1500 cores. A practical case study was performed at Lucent where they attempted to implement the integration pictures CTAG foils have in the beginning. They found the hard way that the implementations do not work....
   • layout problems.
   • timing problems
   • bandwidth problems.
   During the discussion it was clear that this was out of the scope of the standard and these also were not the recommended way of integrating 1500 cores. It was requested that 1500 provide a recommendation that works over those that do not work.

2. A discussion on the serial mandatory occurred. It appears that this was a controversial issue in the CTAG team and this was a solution that the team came up with. However, weak the arguments were for-and-against the mandatory serial version that is the current status.

3. CTL presentation was made. A historical view was presented to answer often asked questions.
   • Is CTL 1450.6 or part of 1500? What part is part of what entity? It was stated that the syntax and semantics were part of 1450.6 and the informational model is part of 1500.
   • Comments were made on leveraging STIL and the difference of CTL and STIL to clarify questions in that regard. Patterns should follow CTL rules and not be STIL patterns. CTL's view of pattern constructs are different from STIL's view of patterns. The scoping of patterns in CTL is determined by the Environment and that of STIL is determined by the PatternExec.

4. Compliancy discussions. No real discussion occurred as a brief presentation was done due to time limitations. The detail rules are being discussed in joint TF meetings.

5. A request was made by Yervant for patents relevant to 1500 to be brought forward.

6. A request was made for reviewers for the upcoming plans for review.