Minutes of P2654 Working Group Meeting No.42, 2019-11-11
Meeting called to order: 11:11 AM EST
The slide references relate to the pack used during this meeting, located here: http://files.sjtag.org/P2654WG/P2654_Meeting_42.pdf
1. Roll Call
Ian McIntosh (Leonardo)
Eric Cormack (DFT Solutions)
Terry Duepner (National Instruments)
Peter Horwood (Digital Development Consultants Ltd)
Richard Pistor (Curtiss-Wright)
Jon Stewart (Dell)
Brad Van Treuren (VT Enterprises Consulting Services)
Carl Walker (Cisco Systems)
Guests:
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By email (non-attendees):
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Excused:
Heiko Ehrenberg (GOEPEL Electronics)
Brian Erickson (JTAG Technologies)
Louis Ungar (A.T.E. Solutions)
Jan Schat (NXP Semiconductors)
2. Agenda
- Eric moved to accept the agenda, seconded by Terry, no objections.
3. IEEE Patent Slides
- {Slides 5-9}
- Patent and Copyright slides reviewed.
4. Review and Approve Previous Minutes
- {Slide 10}
- Meeting #41, November 4 (updated draft circulated November 6)
- No further corrections noted.
- Eric moved to approve, Terry seconded, no objections or abstentions → minutes approved.
5. Review Open Action Items
- {Slide 11}
- [29.1] Terry to update Glossary (Due in two weeks).
- Ongoing.
- [38.1] Brad: Email brief instruction on using the simulation tool
- Ongoing.
- [40.1] Ian: Update poster with text amendments.
- Updated poster (version 8) circulated to group on November 4. Complete.
- Action Item Register: http://files.sjtag.org/P2654WG/ActionItemRegister.xlsx
6. Discussion Topics
6 a) Tutorial on posting articles on the website
- {Slides 12}
- Ian demonstrated editing and posting on the main website, using posting of minutes as an example.
- The following notes on this demonstration have been supplied by Brad:
- DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED IF YOU SEE "Internal Server Error." Usually, this is the Database server lost connection with web server. It will come back to life generally within 30 minutes.
- Open sjtag.org
- Click on Members menu button to enable login pane in upper right corner of page
- Log into the web server
- To create new minutes, click on Minutes menu button and select New button at bottom of next page
- To use previous minutes as a template, open a second tab from Minutes page that selects the previous minutes text in Edit mode (see pencil at right of link)
- Copy title of previous minutes - less the date to use as format for new minutes
- Paste old title into new minutes pane as title and add the date in same format
[It is important to make sure the title is spelled correctly with correct format as this becomes the key for the link in the database] - Select the Publishing tab on new minutes page
- Change Category to "P2654 WG Minutes <YYYY>"
- Change Status from Published to Unpublished
- Go to old minutes and click on "Toggle Editor" button to change to HTML mode
- Select all (^A) and copy text (^C) from old minutes as new template text
- Click on "Toggle Editor" button in new minutes window
- Paste (^V) content into the edit window of the new minutes
[Need to use HTML format copy to preserve the URL link color behavior for new and visited. Otherwise, it will preserve the new link color always.] - Right click on any links to edit their reference and text
- For lists like attendees you need to use Shift-Newline combination to create a new line in the list [If you simply use Newline then a new paragraph will be assumed and additional space inserted]
- When copying from a formatted document, like a Word file, paste the text into the minutes editor using the Edit menu at the top and select "Paste as text" mode.
- IMPORTANT!: Periodically save your edits to a separate text file making a copy of the HTML version of the edit window (Toggle Editor button to switch to HTML edit mode). Once in HTML mode use ^A to select all text and ^C to copy the selected text.
- Green Papers are published as News articles via the News button at top of page
- Green Papers need to have the "Green Papers" tag added to their category
- Look at a previously published article as a template for publishing a new article.
- Remember to paste with "Paste as text" Edit feature when copying text from a Word document or else the format from the Word document will be hard copied to the article and will require edit of the HTML.
- Keyboard shortcuts used above:
- ^A = Control Key + A Key
- ^C = Control Key + C Key
- ^V = Control Key + V Key
- The above is quite different to editing in the wiki which has simpler editing tools and uses the same markup format as Wikipedia.
7. Any Other Business
- {Slide 13}
- P1838 (3D DFT) has been approved, so the 'P' prefix is now dropped.
8. Today's Key Takeaways
- None.
9. Glossary Terms from This Meeting
- None.
- Carried over:
- "Interface" is missing.
- No obvious IEEE accepted definition.
- 1687 has definitions for specialised forms: Device Interface and Instrument Interface.
- We may need specialised forms for Software Interface and Hardware Interface.
- "Interface" is overloaded and requires disambiguation.
- 1687.1: Transformation.
- IEEE 1856: Sense - "Sensor" done, Acquire, Analyze not really defined.
- Device - do we mean a packaged device? May be many devices in a package. "Device" is often used as a modifier, e.g. "device package", "device identification".
- Use Case Context, Application Context
- Legacy Infrastructure, SJTAG Infrastructure (placeholders for now, really for working group to define).
- "Generators": May need to be qualified as "Test Generators" (used by the integrator/tester) and "Model Generators" (used by IP providers, interface designers, etc.).
- AccessLink and DataLink descriptions will need to be revised.
- See P1687.1's definitions on Slide 31 of the pack presented by Jeff Rearick on Jan 14, 2019.
- "State", "Vector", "Sequence" and "Pattern" as proposed at April 8 meeting.
- "Event", "Access Interface" as proposed at April 15 meeting
- ATCA, IPMI, REST RWS, SMBUS, PMBUS, MDIO, ISP.
- LRU and SRA.
- "Interface" is missing.
10. Schedule next meeting
- November 18, 2019
11. Topic for next meeting
- Review of ITC
- Commentary on TTSC meeting.
12. Reminders
- TTSC Meeting is tomorrow, 12th.
13. List New Action Items
- None.
14. Adjourn
- Brad moved to adjourn, seconded by Carl.
- Meeting adjourned at 12:05 PM EST
Thanks to Brad for additional notes.
Respectfully submitted,
Ian McIntosh