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IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA

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Next Meeting
Wednesday, January 21, 2008
8 AM US Pacific Time

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Agenda:
- Call for patents
- Opens
- Finish review of Rob Elliott's list of suggest changes

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Minutes from January 14:

Attendees:
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(* denotes present)
Agilent                    - Radek Biernacki*, John Moore, Ken Wong
Ansoft                     - Denis Soldo
Cadence Design Systems     - Terry Jernberg*, Brad Griffin
Green Streak Programs      - Lynne Green
Hewlett-Packard            - Rob Elliott
Intel                      - Michael Mirmak*
Mentor Graphics Corp.      - John Angulo*, Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov
Micron Technology          - Randy Wolff
Sigrity                    - Sam Chitwood, Raymond Y. Chen, Tao Su, Brad Brim
SiSoft                     - Walter Katz*
Teraspeed Consulting Group - Bob Ross*

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No patents were announced.

Michael announced that ICMCHK1 v. 1.1.3 compilation was successful for
all operating systems, with complete quality assurance tests.  John 
Angulo volunteered to run Windows tests on the pre-release executables.

Michael reviewed the latest Touchstone 2.0 draft.  Suggested changes are
noted below:

Radek: on p.5, a curly brace instead of bracket appears in the list there; 
on the same page, make text for [Number of Noise Frequencies] and 
[Noise Data] consistent.  The bullets on that page are also missing.

MM: scrub example numbers for proper ordering

Bob: no examples show how the [End] keyword is used

MM: ordering is relative to "any network data" not [Network Data].  
Radek stated that he doesn't mind this, but Bob suggested using [Network Data]
as the reference.

Bob: on p. 12, does "immediately" permit comment lines between the keyword
and data?  The team consensus is yes.  Some other phrasing would be preferred, 
rather than temporal (after, before, immediately).

In several locations, the "Network Data line" is mentioned.  This should
be "Network Data keyword" in all locations. 

Bob: p. 27 - bullets should appear

[Vladimir provided feedback to the team in a separate e-mail to the reflector.]

Michael reviewed the first part of the list of Rob Elliott's suggested
changes with the team.  This review will be completed at the next
meeting, after which a revised draft will be prepared and distributed.

ARs
Team: Vladimir stated that the document should include two complete separate 
examples, with as many functions as possible.
Michael to obtain GEIA and/or IEEE rules for may, shall, will, must in standards
Michael to list out Rob's suggested changes as a bullet list, so that global 
principles can be settled before deciding.