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IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA

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Next Meeting
Wednesday, February 18, 2008
8 AM US Pacific Time

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              916-356-2663     5      107-6809

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Agenda:
- Call for patents
- Opens
- Finish review of draft 15

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Minutes from February 11:

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.

The team reviewed the latest draft.  Specific suggestions and comments follow:

- p. 1: Bob suggested that TechAmerica is the official branding for copyright
    purposes.  We should therefore use it.  Michael additionally explained
    the standards process per a question from Radek.

- p. 3 - Bob noted that italics should be intended for equations only, but
    the consistent usage shown in the document may be acceptable.

- p. 4 - The phrase "e.g." should be used here in place of syntax "--".

- p. 4 - The team accepted use of "n" in italics here.

- p. 5 - Bob noted that capitalization should be corrected here
    ("option Line" should be "option line").

- p. 6 - Radek asked whether magnitude here is an absolute value as shown.

- p. 9 - Bob asked whether N11, N12, etc. should be in italics here.

- p. 13 - Bob and Radek noted that the multiplication symbol looks somewhat odd 
here.
    Further, there's no ambiguity in usage if the symbol left out.  Therefore 
the team
    advocates removing it.  Additionally, the spacing here should be corrected 
for consistency
    with IEEE rules. The team discussed whether <N12>, etc. should be in 
italics.  Radek added
    that the 11, 12, etc. values could be shown as subscripts.

- p. 16 - The team noted that "S" not italicized here; this is correct and 
consistent
    with usage elsewhere in the document.

- p. 27 - Bob noted that the bullets have still failed to appear on this page.

The team will finish the review at the  ext meeting.

ARs
- Michael to check on italics rules in IEEE standards documents