From: stds-1149-1wg@IEEE.ORG
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 3:15 PM
To: stds-1149-1wg@IEEE.ORG
Subject: RE: 1149.1 INITIALIZE Sub-group Meeting Minutes 02/05/10
Resending this again as
it bounced back on Fri.
From: Pyron Carol-RA2262
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:20 AM
To: stds-1149-1wg@IEEE.ORG
Subject: 1149.1 INITIALIZE Sub-group Meeting Minutes 02/05/10
Attendees:
John Braden
CJ Clark
Dave Dubberke
Roland Latvala
Adam Ley
Ken Parker
Carol Pyron
Francisco Russi
SivaKumar V.
At the end of the meeting, we agreed
to start sending the minutes of these meetings to 1149.1 email reflector.
The meeting focused on discussions
for possible side file formats. Ken discussed the basic SVF SDR statement which
is a Hex string. Hex would present a few issues as INIT_DATA registers may not
be modulo 4 long. But a similar, simplistic format could be done with
either hex or binary options.
Carol and other attendees do like to
be able to use subfields and mnemonics. CJ Clark presented mnemonics as a BSDL
extension and then review possibly basing the side-file on a lower level of
1687 proposed procedural descriptions using iWrite / iApply,
etc. statements.
Francisco had a STIL based option
ready for discussion, but we did not have a chance to discuss. This will be
covered next week.
We did get into a brief discussion
of what was the usage model for the side-file. Carol said side file info (or in
BSDL) from IC vendors could have subfield definitions but most often would not
provide actual data. In a "template" or sample side-file, string
fields might be X since the settings or board design specific. Ken volunteered
to write-up a discussion of the side file use model. He has sent this out in a
separate email.
Emails from Francisco and Ken are
attached for the larger audience.
-Carol