Re: Librarian Proposal

IBISians,

As acting librarian, this proposal sounds good to me. We'll need to find out
how this proposal fits with whatever standards body we decide on.

Mike, will NCSU be taking over all vhdl.org activities, including the reflector,
or just the database of files?

- Derrick Duehren
  Intel Corp.

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Subject: Librarian Proposal
Author: mbs@eos.ncsu.edu at SMTPGATE
Date: 7/20/94 2:28 PM

As discussed in the last IBIS Open Forum Call (on July 15) I raised the
suggestion that NCSU could act as the IBIS librarian and a proposal was
requested. Here it is.

                      IBIS LIBRARIAN PROPOSAL

The Electronics Research Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University proposes to
maintain the IBIS library and act as the IBIS librarian.

1. An IBIS mosaic home page. A temporary page has been created and
   can be accessed by selecting
      North Carolina State University
        College of Engineering
          Departments and Programs
            Electrical and Computer Engineering
              ECE Department Research Centers
                Electronics Research Laboratory
                  IBIS

   The URL is http://www2.ncsu.edu/eos/project/erl_html/erl_ibis.html

   It is very unlikely that this address will change so feel free
   to link to it.

2. An IBIS anonymous ftp site. basically everything available through mosaic
   will be on the ftp site (most of the files will be identical).
   The address is ftp.eos.ncsu.edu The directory will be pub/ibis

3. The library will contain IBIS models that have been validated by the
   IBIS librarian. Models are valid if they they can be parsed (without
   error) by the Golden Parser.

4. The library will contain source code such as the Spice-to-IBIS code
   and other bits and pieces currently maintained on vhdl.org:/pub/ibis

5. The librarian will be Michael Steer (Associate Professor, Department of
   Electrical and Computer Engineering, NCSU --- phone +1-919-515-5191,
   fax +1-919-515-3027, email mbs@ncsu.edu)

6. We will seek US government funds to support activities such as
   Spice-to-IBIS for IBIS2.0 .
   (The development of Spice-to-IBIS for IBIS1.1 was supported by ARPA.)

7. The server will be run at no charge. Eventually, if the space utilized
   grows to 500 MB+ or if the traffic becomes enormous we expect to acquire
   government funding to provide a dedicated server and disk space.

Running an IBIS server and functioning as librarian fits in well
with our CAD benchmarking activities. We welcome the opportunity to
participate and contribute.

Michael Steer
mbs@ncsu.edu
Received on Thu Jul 21 10:29:55 1994