From: ibis-interconn-bounce@freelists.org on behalf of Mirmak, Michael
[michael.mirmak@intel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:51 PM
To: ibis-interconn@freelists.org
Subject: [ibis-interconn] IBIS Ad Hoc Interconnect Task Group Sept. 3
Minutes and Sept. 10 Reminder


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IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC 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, September 10, 2008
9 AM US Pacific Time

               Telephone     Bridge   Passcode
              916-356-2663     3      710-1215

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        Meeting ID:     edac2c36463e47cbb6a3730e39bbace2
        Entry Code:     VXh09Iiqrn
        Location:       meet:sip:michael.mirmak@intel.com;gruu;opaque=app:conf:focus:id:edac2c36463e47cbb6a3730e39bbace2%3Fconf-key=VXh09Iiqrn

        http://tinyurl.com/68tmma

Agenda:
- Call for patents
- Opens
- Change of Schedule?
- Final review of complete mixed-mode text
- Return to Interconnect Port Groups discussion

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Minutes from September 3:

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.  Michael had added a placeholder for
a list of contributors.  Bob Ross suggested this may not be needed, while
Terry Jernberg proposed that names be listed by order of effort toward
completing the document.  Bob noted that a "special acknowledgement"
section might be added as a compromise.

The new rule 9 of the syntax section was noted by Bob to be a deviation
from IBIS rules, where keyword arguments follow the keyword on the same
line.  He suggested that only [Reference] and [Mixed-Mode Order] need
permit arguments on the line following the keyword itself.

Page 12 still contains legacy items from earlier drafts.  These will be
corrected.  Similarly, the example for [Mixed-Mode Order] contains incorrect
reference and port ordering.

The team ended the meeting with discussions of alternate tools for creating
equations according to the rules of IEEE and other standards groups.

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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

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