Minutes, IBIS Editorial Task Group
2 JUNE 2021

Attendees:
Intel Corp.             Michael Mirmak*
Micron Technology       Randy Wolff
Siemens EDA             Arpad Muranyi*, Weston Beal
SiSoft                  Walter Katz
Teraspeed Labs          Bob Ross*

Minutes were taken by Michael Mirmak.  The team agreed to continue with the meeting despite reduced attendance. 

Michael reviewed the May 26, 2021 minutes with the team.  Arpad Muranyi moved to approve the minutes.  Bob Ross seconded.  The minutes
were approved without objection.

No patents were declared 

No Actions Required [AR] were noted in the minutes.  Arpad stated that the document dates which automatically update should now be cross-references to the final approval date on the cover page.  [AR] Michael to see if the cover approval date of document can be used as reference for other dates in the document.

Arpad noted that the IBIS ATM meeting yesterday reached agreement on technical changes to the repeater BIRD.  A new draft has been sent out to reflector by Walter Katz.  There is increasing confidence of approval soon.  No discussion of the PAMn BIRD has been held in ATM. 

Agenda:
The team focused on the EMD introduction issues highlighted in e-mail reflector discussion.  The team added Randy Wolff's designator-to-designator text modification, plus Arpad and Weston Beal's pin-to-pin support statement.

Bob noted that all four combinations are possible and should be mentioned as supported: pin-to-pin, designator-pin-to-designator-pin, etc.
In EMD Models, as opposed to Interconnect Models, we can go from designator to designator (cascaded) within one model.

Arpad noted a recent customer case where mutual node-to-node connections were needed in EMD models but were not supported; he used a dummy pad to support this implementation.  We may need to support this in a future revision of the specification.

Bob noted that "node", in Weston's added text, is a controversial term.  Should terminal be used instead?  Michael found 173 uses of "node" in the document, but the new text features its only use in Chapter 12.  Terminal is defined later on the same page.  The team modified the new text to simplify the changes and remove mention of "node".

The team found that "whitespace" (all one word) is the preferred industry term for tab and space used separately or in combination.  Team agreed that _ is not whitespace, nor is CR or LF.  A new rule 15 was added to Section 3 regarding "whitespace" and "whitespace character".  "White space" was changed in four instances in the document to "whitespace".

The team agreed that no draft 10 will be sent out until the AMI section Default discussion is complete.

Arpad moved to adjourn; Bob seconded.  

Meeting adjourned.