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IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA

http://www.eda.org/ibis/adhoc/interconnect/

Mailing list: ibis-interconn@freelists.org

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Next Meeting
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
9 AM US Pacific Time

               Telephone     Bridge   Passcode
              916-356-2663     4      360-6137

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


Live Meeting: http://tinyurl.com/yzo768q

or:

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/sisoft/join?id=M462B6&role=attend&pw=P9%3D8%3BP%277b


Agenda:
- Attendence
- Call for patents
- Opens
- Binary syntax proposal
- Model Connection Protocol - if document available
- May 12, 2010 Meeting - Cancelled?
- May 19, 2010 Meeting?

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Minutes from April 28, 2010:

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
IBM			   - Greg Edlund, Lijun Jiang, Yaping Zhou
Intel                      - Michael Mirmak
I/O Methodology		   - Lance Wang
Mentor Graphics Corp.      - John Angulo*, Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov
Micron Technology          - Justin Butterfield*, 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.

No opens were raised.


BINARY FORMAT PROPOSAL

Bob Ross conducted the meeting and showed a Draft 6 version with some
binary characters included in the example, and the full ASCII example
completed with the associated Version 2.1 keywords.

John Angulo accepted an AR to try to provide a hex version of the
binary characters via a Linux utility.

Bob will add a few remarks to Draft 6 regarding introductory material
per some actions reported in the April 21, 2010 minutes.  In particular,
the presumed conversion operation should support ignoring all comment
characters and ASCII text that follows to the end of the line after
[Network Data].  The binary format does not contain the comment lines.
The conversion back to ASCII format would omit any original comment
lines.  This also applies to blank lines.


NEXT MEETING

Binary Format Proposal discussion will continue on May 5, 2010.