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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
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 (note change in date and day!)

THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE COMBINED WITH THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MODELING
(ATM) TASK GROUP MEETING.  The meeting invitation will be forwarded once
published to the ATM list.

Agenda:
- Review of proposals to combine ICM and IBIS for package modeling

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Minutes from November 28:

Attendees:
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(* denotes present)
Agilent                    - Radek Biernacki*, John Moore
Cadence Design Systems     - Terry Jernberg*
Green Streak Programs      - Lynne Green
Intel                      - Michael Mirmak*
Mentor Graphics Corp.      - John Angulo*
Micron Technology          - Randy Wolff*
Sigrity                    - Sam Chitwood
Teraspeed Consulting Group - Bob Ross*

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The team reviewed the final versions of the Touchstone 2.0 combined 
document.  Five changes were suggested:

- add sentence explicitly requiring noise parameter frequency ordering 
  from lowest to highest numerical value 
- add sentence explicitly prohibiting [Number of Noise Frequencies] in 
  files where no noise parameters have been included
- clarify use of "located" in reference to network data port row and 
  column arrangement 
- remove redundant paragraph from the "Compatibility Notes" section 
- correct example numbering in text from "example 4" to "example 8"

One minor grammatical correction was also made in the "Compatibility 
Notes" section. 

The team approved without objection the document for forwarding,
with the corrections above, to the IBIS Open Forum for review and 
standardization.

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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