====================================================================== IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA http://www.eda.org/ibis/adhoc/interconnect/ Mailing list: ibis-interconn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ====================================================================== Meeting Time 9 AM US Pacific Time Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time 916-356-2663, Bridge: 4, Passcode: 936-9298 Live Meeting: https://webjoin.intel.com/?passcode=9369298 Agenda - Attendance - Opens - Call for patents - Review of TS2.x Binary Proposal Document ====================================================================== Minutes from May 19, 2010: Attendees: ---------- (* 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* ======================================================================== No patents were announced. During opens, Bob Ross noted that University of Torino (same group as the authors of the IdEM tool) has a new binary database program, in the public domain, to translate from format to format of binary. This program is called HDF 5. Bob's machine cannot handle the program due to his operating system, but he is told this conversion program is a de facto standard in the industry. Bob will forward a link to the program to various lists. Supported OSes include Solaris, Mac, Windows, Linux. The program was not familiar to the team members in the meeting. Radek Biernacki asked whether this was needed, as these functions are fairly easy to program. Michael Mirmak responded that this may be of interest for easy generation of specification document examples. Radek suggested that this should not be recommended yet for general conversion of files. Greg Edlund, in response to a previous AR, reported on the possibility of releasing code from IBM's proprietary HSSCDR team for binary-to-ASCII translation. HSSCDR was written using a high-level scripting language unique to the tool. Therefore, releasing the code would not be useful. Michael asked whether a pseudo-code version could be released. In response, Radek provided a brief explanation of binary vs. ASCII conversion. John Angulo reported that his AR to provide hex format conversion from binary for the specification examples is in progress. Michael Mirmak summarized the next steps for the group: - MCP efforts are still on hold absent Brad Brim - ISS is not part of the Interconnect Task Group's deliverables, but review and clean up efforts may be supplied by various team members who also attend the ATM task group - binary support is still being finalized, as several major changes to the document are being discussed. Bob and Radek advocated filing a TSIRD to formalize and approve the document changes - node mapping to ports is still of interest, but will be treated through separate discussions and - once the technical changes are complete, the document will be reformatted to more closely resemble ANSI and/or IEEE standard formats ARs Bob Ross: propose some generic language to summarize the recent binary format changes -- DONE ------------------------------------------------------------------ The IBIS Ad Hoc Interconnect Task Group Mailing List Archives are available at: http://www.freelists.org/archives/ibis-interconn TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a message to "ibis-interconn-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of "unsubscribe" To administer your subscription status from the web, visit: http://www.freelists.org/list/ibis-interconn