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IBIS EDITORIAL TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA

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Next Meeting
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
9 AM US Pacific Time 

               Telephone     Bridge   Passcode
              916-356-2663     92     443-3339

(for international and alternate US numbers, contact Michael Mirmak)

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Agenda:
- Attendees
- Call for patents
- Review of Minutes
  * August 24, 2011
- Opens
- Review of Section 6c/10 Reformat Proposals
- Agenda for Next Meeting
- Approve Next Meeting Dates:
  * September 7
  * September 14 (?)
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Attendees:
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(* denotes present)
Agilent                    - Radek Biernacki
Ansoft                     - Denis Soldo
Cadence Design Systems     - Terry Jernberg, Brad Griffin, Dennis Nagle
I/O Methodology            - Lance Wang
Intel                      - Michael Mirmak*
Mentor Graphics Corp.      - John Angulo, Arpad Muranyi*
Micron Technology          - Justin Butterfield, Randy Wolff*
SiSoft                     - Walter Katz*
Teraspeed Consulting Group - Bob Ross*
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No patents were declared.  The minutes from Aug. 17 were approved with a
single change, the correction of the date from Aug. 17 to Aug. 10.

Walter Katz asked about the status of the rewrite of Section 10.  Michael
Mirmak suggested that the section would not be rewritten or re-partitioned
until the new format was agreed upon.  Walter noted that Section 10's
first two sections are the Modeling Interface and Programming Guide,
which Walter has reformatted in a document distributed on the reflector.
The AMI Language Guide (the "second area") shows the structure of the
.ami file.  The third area, covering Reserved Parameters, is shown in
a document with reformatting by Bob Ross; while he did not intend these
to be separate documents, he suggested the idea has merit.

Bob suggested that Lou Church cannot yet be given instructions as the team
has not developed a document for him.  Arpad Muranyi replied that he 
liked Bob's new format, but would prefer to see the "Usage Rules", "Other
Notes" and "Required" somehow distinguished from "Usage", "Type", "Format" and
"Default".  Arpad suggested indenting these, while Michael suggested either
Putting these in a table, or otherwise in-line.

Arpad Muranyi suggested that "default" and "value" are mutually exclusive.
Discussion ensued on interpretation of the terms.  Michael Mirmak noted
that the specification does not clearly distinguish between string literals
and the six elements or parameters.  Walter Katz noted that the < > characters
already do this.  

At the next meeting, Bob Ross will review his reformatting of Section 6c. 
Arpad Muranyi will show his own example of the second area.