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- Minutes of the VASASG in Irvine CA 6/12/92
- Meeting #4
- Mark Brown
- Overview:
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- The meeting was held at the University of California, Irvine on 6/12/92.
- A list of the members in attendance is attached to this document as well as a
- white paper written by Kevin Nolan and a complete list of the requirements
- that were submitted to the Requirements Analysis group. The goals of this
- meeting were to review the requirements analysis work thus far, to continue
- the analysis discussions and to develop new work items for the next meeting.
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- General Discussions:
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- The agenda for this meeting was as follows:
- * Review work accomplished at the Santander Spain meeting.
- * Discuss white paper written by Kevin Nolan.
- * Continue review of the draft Design Objectives document.
- * Review and update the work schedule.
- * Develop new work items for the next meeting.
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- Santander Meeting Summary:
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- Kevin Nolan gave a brief summary of the Santander Spain meeting. The
- following are the highlights:
- * Dominique Rodriguez presented the first draft of the Design
- Objectives (DO) document.
- * Kevin Nolan presented a top-down design methodology using
- a control system paradigm. This kind of design methodology
- is required by various users.
- * Began detailed analysis of the draft DO document.
- + General agreements reached:
- - Generalize operational semantics to more than just
- electrical. Allow representation of other physical
- systems such as thermal and mechanical.
- - Language will NOT standardize implementation
- algorithms.
- * Kevin Nolan agreed to write a white paper on various issues.
- * Robert Cottrell agreed to update the DO document and return
- the master copy to Hazem El-Tahawy to manage.
- * Further discussion will be by email, using the mailing list set
- up by Robert Cottrell. The address of the mailing list is:
- dr1076_1@lsi-logic.co.uk
- or
- dr1076_1@lonfs01.lsil.com
- Anyone wanting their name added to or deleted from the list
- should contact Robert Cottrell at:
- rac@lsi_logic.co.uk
- or
- rac@dcsl.lsil.com
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- Review of White Paper:
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- Kevin Nolan presented his white paper to the group and lead a discussion of
- it. A copy of this paper is attached to these minutes.
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- Continued Review of DO:
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- The remainder of the meeting was devoted to continuing discussion and analysis
- of the DO document at the point that the group had stopped at in Santander.
- A set of new work items was developed as a result of these discussions:
- 1. Kevin Nolan agreed to write two white papers:
- * Definition of the Continuous Time Operational Semantic
- Model.
- * Interaction between the Discrete and Continuous Time Domains.
- 2. Dave Barton agreed to write a glossary of terms.
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- Schedule:
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- The schedule for YE 1992 was then updated as follows:
- 1992
- Tasks J A S O N D *
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- 1 Req. Analysis --------------A
- 2 Language Design ---------->
- 3.Glossary Due B
- 4.EURO-DAC C
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- Milestones
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- A Design Objectives document complete.
- B Glossary due from Dave Barton to Hazem El-Tahawy.
- C.Next VASASG meeting at the EURO-DAC conference.
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- New Work Items:
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- The following are the new work items to be completed by the next meeting which
- will be held in conjunction with the EURO-DAC conference on Tuesday,
- September 8th. from 1800 to 2000:
- 1. Distribute the final list of requirements. (Mark Brown, this list will be
- delivered with these minutes)
- 2. Write white papers regarding:
- * Definition of the Continuous Time Operational Semantic
- Model. (Kevin Nolan)
- * Interaction between the Discrete and Continuous Time Domains.
- (Kevin Nolan)
- 3. Develop a glossary of terms. (Dave Barton)
- 4. Distribute the Design Objectives document from Hazem.
- (Mark Brown and Robert Cottrell)
- 5. Update the project plan with the new schedule and task chairs. (Mark Brown)
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- Appendix A - Attendees:
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- Donald F. Hanson University of Mississippi
- Ernst Christen Analogy Inc.
- Howard Lane
- Hazem El-Tahawy AnaCad Computer Systems
- Alain Vachoux Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- Rick Traversy McDonnell Douglas
- Kevin Nolan Analogy Inc.
- David Barton Intermetrics Inc.
- Jean-Michel Berge CNET
- Jean Mermet European CAD Standardization Initiative
- Alec Stanculescu Fintronic USA Inc.
- Zainalabedin Navabi Northeastern University
- Mark Brown CLSI
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