From: ibis-interconn-bounce@freelists.org on behalf of Mirmak, Michael [michael.mirmak@intel.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:14 AM To: ibis-interconn@freelists.org Subject: [ibis-interconn] IBIS Ad Hoc Interconnect Task Group Aug. 27 Minutes and Sept. 3 Reminder ====================================================================== IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA http://www.eda.org/ibis/adhoc/interconnect/ Mailing list: ibis-interconn@freelists.org ====================================================================== Next Meeting Wednesday, September 3, 2008 9 AM US Pacific Time Telephone Bridge Passcode 916-356-2663 3 944-0962 Use the LiveMeeting Links in Outlook or the information below: Meeting ID: 0d2d068fd84b46c5be9d200440e7c6b6 Entry Code: 4U85mXtH5VX Location: meet:sip:michael.mirmak@intel.com;gruu;opaque=app:conf:focus:id:0d2d068fd84b46c5be9d200440e7c6b6%3Fconf-key=4U85mXtH5VX or http://tinyurl.com/5julf4 Agenda: - Call for patents - Opens - Review of combined Touchstone 2.0 mixed-mode text ====================================================================== Minutes from August 27: 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 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* ======================================================================== No patents were announced. Both Vladimir and Radek provided updated copies of their respective portions of the draft text to the reflector. Vladimir noted that the equation editor used does not support bold for vectors, as is the IEEE convention. The team agreed that commas should not be used as delimiters throughout the document, but only in [Mixed-Mode Order] to show relationships between ports in a differential or common-mode pair. Semicolons and parentheses should similarly be avoided. Whitespace, including CR and LF, is suitable but the text should clarify whether keyword data/arguments must begin immediately after the keyword itself or may begin on the line following. Some small notation differences exist in parts of the document regarding Equation numbering, use of "a" and "b" as vectors, the use of "S" for single-ended data as opposed to S-parameters and j for imaginary as opposed to a column variable. Michael will integrate the two sections with the existing draft text and release to the team for review. The next meeting will review a draft featuring the complete mixed-mode text. If mixed-mode support is closed with that draft, port grouping will be finalized and the document will be prepared for submission to the IBIS Open Forum. ======================================================================== Team Objectives: 1) complete ICM-IBIS linking BIRD and any associated changes to the ICM specification 2) update the ICM specification, if needed, to clarify the mapping of ICM nodes to S-parameter ports 3) complete a specification for "Touchstone Plus" or similar industry-standard definition for Touchstone-like files, to include complex impedance references, removal of limits on the maximum number of ports and per-port impedance references ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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@freelists.org" with a subject of "unsubscribe" To administer your subscription status from the web, visit: http://www.freelists.org/list/ibis-interconn ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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@freelists.org" with a subject of "unsubscribe" To administer your subscription status from the web, visit: http://www.freelists.org/list/ibis-interconn