DATE: 10/5/99 SUBJECT: 10/1/99 EIA IBIS Open Forum Meeting Minutes VOTING MEMBERS AND 1999 PARTICIPANTS LIST: Applied Simulation Technology Raj Raghuram*, Norio Matsui, Neven Orhanovic, Fred Ballesteri Avanti Nikolai Bannov Cadence Design Mike LaBonte* Cisco Systems Syed Huq Compaq Bob Haller, Steve Coe, Shafir Rahman, Maher Elasad Cypress (Rajesh Manapat) EMC Corporation Fabrizio Zanella Fairchild Semiconductor [Peter LaFlamme], Craig Klem H.A.S. Electronics (Haruny Said) Hewlett Packard (EEsof, etc.) Paul Gregory, Henry Wu HyperLynx (& Pads Software) Matthew Flora*, Kellee Crisafulli, Lynne Green, John Angulo* IBM Greg Edlund, Michael Cohen*, Praven Patel Incases Olaf Rethmeier, Werner Rissiek, David Eagles, Wilhelm Arnoldi, Ulrich Losch Intel Corporation Stephen Peters*, Arpad Muranyi*, Frank Kern, Martin Chang, Dave Moxley, Kerry Nelson*, Jeff Day, Richard Mellitz, Peter Liou, Will Hobbs*, Henri Maramis LSI Logic (Symbios Logic) Scott King Mentor Graphics Bob Ross*, Mohamed Mahmoud, Sherif Hammad, Jean Oudinot, Markku Kukkanen, Martin Groeber, Karine Loudet, Hisham Gamal, Evgeny Wasserman Mitsubishi (Tam Cao) Motorola (Ron Werner) National Semiconductor Milt Schwartz North East Systems Associates Edward Sayre, Michael Baxter, Kathy Breda NEC (Hiroshi Matsumoto) Philips Semiconductor Todd Andersen, Peter Christiaans Quantic EMC (Mike Ventham) Siemens Bernhard Unger, Christian Mitschke, Manfred Maurer, Peter Kaiser, Wolfram Meyer, Gerald Bannert, Harmut Ibowski, Katja Zuleeg, Hans Pichlmaier, Eckhard Lenski, Kortheuer Udo, Christian Sporrer SiQual Scott McMorrow Texas Instruments Jean-Claude Perrin, Shankar Balasubramaniah, Ramzi Ammar, Thomas Fisher Time Domain Analysis Systems Dima Smolyansky Viewlogic Systems Chris Rokusek, Guy de Burgh*, Cary Mandel, (Jon Powell) VeriBest Ian Dodd Via Technologies (Weber Chuang) VLSI Technology D.C. Sessions OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN 1999: 3Dfx Interactive Ken Wu Actel Corporation Silvia Montoya Alcatel Steven Criel Analytical Edge Robert Easson Applied Microelectronics Brian Sanderson BMW Friedrich Haslinger Bogatin Enterprise Eric Bogatin Bosch Telecom Detlef Wolf Celestica Danny Da Silva ECI Telecom Daniel Adar EIA [Patti Rusher], Cecilia Fleming*, Dan Heinemeier Electronique Catherine Gross EFM Consulting Ekkehard Miersch FCI John Ellis High Design Technology Razvan Ene Hitachi ULSI Hideki Fukuda Infineon Thomas Latzel Intracon Design Mike Osmond Litton Systems Robert Bremer Matsushita Atsuji Itoh Molex Incorporated Gus Panella Nortel Networks Martin Hall (& at Viewlogic), Calvin Trowell Oce Printing Systems Ernst Deiringer Praegitzer Design Rick Newell Rockwell Collins Susan Tweeton, Ron Hau Samsung Jung-Gun Byun, Cheol-Seung Choi Shindengen Tsuyoshi Horigome Signals & Systems Engineering Tom Hawkins STMicroelectronics Fabrice Boissieres, Philippe LeFevre StorageTek Nick Krull Sun Microsystems Victor Chang, Kevin Ko Tektronix Tom Brinkoetter Teradyne Mikhail Khusid VDOL Robert Novosel Xilinx Susan Wu (Unaffiliated, Retired) Bruce Wenniger In the list above, attendees at the meeting are indicated by *. Principal members or other active members who have not attended are in parentheses. Participants who no longer are in the organization are in square brackets. Upcoming Meetings: The bridge numbers for future IBIS teleconferences are as follows: Date Bridge Number Reservation # Passcode October 14, 1999 IBIS Summit Meeting, No Teleconference October 29, 1999 (916) 356-9200 2-356762 1385866 November 19, 1999 (916) 356-9200 2-356763 7473493 All meetings are 8:00 AM to 9:55 AM Pacific Time. We try to have agendas out 7 days before each Open Forum and meeting minutes out within 7 days after. When you call into the meeting, ask for the IBIS Open Forum hosted by Will Hobbs and give the reservation number and passcode. NOTE: "AR" = Action Required. -------------------------------- MINUTES ------------------------------------- INTRODUCTIONS AND MEETING QUORUM No new participants. MEMBERSHIP UPDATE AND TREASURER'S REPORT Bob Ross announced that Via Technologies in Taiwan is now an official EIA IBIS Open Forum Member and is so listed above. Guy de Burgh noted that he added Via Technologies to the membership list. He still is validating the addresses of four member companies. REVIEW OF MINUTES AND AR'S The September 10, 1999 Minutes were approved without change. Bob Ross opened the discussion, per the AR's for Cecilia Fleming and Bob, regarding alignment of the IBIS bylaws with EIA EP-20, and also with respect to new officer positions approved at the June 18, 1999 meeting. The AR's are as follows: AR - Bob Ross and Cecilia Fleming research what is needed to align the IBIS bylaws with EP-20. AR - Bob Ross and Cecilia Fleming write position definitions for the new positions of Webmaster and Postmaster. Bob presented his opinion that the EP-20 bylaws do not relate well to organizations that conduct business on a frequent basis via teleconference calls and that use public e-mail reflectors for discussions. The IBIS Open Forum has effectively conducted business in a professional manner for years with wide-spread public visibility and support. There is no compelling reason for the IBIS Open Forum to change its mode of operation. Bob noted that EP-20 has an "escape clause" in the Notice Page: "This publication is not intended to preclude or discourage other approaches that similarly represent good engineering practice, or that may be acceptable to, or have been accepted by the appropriate bodies." Bob proposed exercising this clause to provide the rationale for dealing with the meeting quorum issue. Bob proposed that the meeting quorum remain at 5 member companies for normal teleconference business. We typically have had about 8 to 10 participating at each meeting out of 31 companies. Of this number, about 15 companies have been calling in. Many other companies have joined to be either supportive of IBIS or to participate in other ways besides attending the teleconference meetings. Formal letter ballot votes usually related to the official ratification of documents. Bob proposed that we will require a majority of official members to vote on such issues. This actually exceeds the EP-20 rules. Currently this means we would require 16 members to vote. Bob also copied the officer positions from the original charter, but changed to add draft descriptions of the new Postmaster and Webmaster positions. We will vote on adopting these new positions at a later meeting. Position Responsibilities ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairperson Oversee all forum activities, preside at all general meetings. Finance authority. This person must be an employee of a Membership Company. Vice Chair Cover for chair and secretary in their absence, coordinate all public relations (press releases, media contacts). This person must be an employee of a Membership Company. Secretary Coordinate logistics of all meetings, take and publish meeting minutes within 10 days of meeting. [Delete this task since it is transferred to the Postmaster: Work with or act as file server sysop to maintain the reflector and on-line files.] This person does not need to be an employee of a Membership Company. Librarian Maintain the library of public IBIS models, including verifying authenticity and compliance before posting. This person does not need to be an employee of Membership Company. Webmaster Maintains the contents of the official EIA IBIS Open Forum Web site and Roster files under www.eia.org either directly or through contact with EIA staff. This person does not need to be an employee of a Membership Company. Postmaster Maintains the e-mail distribution lists and performs file server sysop activities for the on-line files on the IBIS site: www.eda.org/pub/ibis/. This person does not need to be an employee of a Membership Company. Other AR's will be discussed during the meeting. MISCELLANY/ANNOUNCEMENTS None. PRESS AND WEB PAGE UPDATES Bob Ross reported that Syed Huq uploaded an updated Roster. Please review and send corrections to Syed. We are listing primary and secondary member for the official EIA members, where possible. Bob Ross noted that Michael Mirmak of Intel updated the tree3_0a.txt to the Version 3.2 level and also expanded the content to note the IBIS Version number when a feature was introduced. Some enumerated items were added. It is now uploaded in http://pub/ibis/ver3.2/tree3_2.txt Comments are welcome. This may be enhanced further since some additional modes are not documented. The older trees formerly in the work in progress (wip) subdirectory have been moved to the ver3.0 subdirectories. Bob reported that Roy Leventhal of 3Com has prepared some IBIS tutorial material and expanded descriptions. Bob plans to upload the material in the training subdirectory after the write-ups are reviewed and purged of some information that applies only to 3Com. Bob reported on a paper: "The Development of Analog SPICE Behavioral Model Based on IBIS Model" in the Proceedings of the Ninth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, March, 1999, by Ying Wang and Han Ngee Tan of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on pp. 101-104. It presents some of the algorithms that have been reported at IBIS Summit Meetings. A link to this paper is: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehntan/glsvlsi.zip Bob noted that there was some discussion on the Signal Integrity Reflector on IBIS algorithms with an older reference to: "Extraction of Transient Behavioral Model of Digital I/O Buffers from IBIS" by Peivand Tehrani, Yuzhe Chen and Jiayuan Fang from the 46th IEEE Electronic Components & Technology Conference, May 28-31, 1996, pp. 1009-1015. A link exits under: http://www.sigrity.com/papers/ectc96/DOectc96ibis.htm Bob also noted that "IBIS Models Accept the High Speed Challenge", by Dan Lake, Mentor Graphics, in Design Wave Magazine, August, 1999 in Japan. The English translation is on the site: http://www.mentor.com/icx/articles/ibis_models_aug99.html NEW MODELS AVAILABLE, LIBRARY UPDATE Bob Ross stated that the Infineon IBIS model link previously published has been dropped. OPENS FOR NEW ISSUES None. INTERNATIONAL/EXTERNAL PROGRESS - IEC 62014-1 (IBIS Version 2.1) - Cecilia Fleming reported on the IEC TC93 meeting held in Arlington, Virginia on September 22-23, 1999. She sent some draft minutes and presentations to Bob Ross. Cecilia noted that IEC 62014-1 vote (IEC 93/91/CDV) has been approved and is at FDIS due December 1, 1999. Cecilia needs to make the changes necessary for it to be published. The maintenance cycle will be three years, and Bob is designated the Project Leader. Bob noted that other related business will be discussed later. - pr EIAJ ED-5302 Standard for I/O Interface Model for Integrated Circuits (IMIC) - Cecilia Fleming did not have any report on any possible discussions of IMIC at the IEC TC93 meeting. - IEC PWI 93-1 Models of Integratd Circuits for EMI Behavioral Simulation (formerly designated as IEC 93/67/NP IBIS and EMC Simulation) - Bob Ross stated that the draft minutes of the IEC TC93 meeting above showed that several national bodies were interested in IBIS and EMC. The project is still remaining at "zero stage". Bob noted that the WG6 Action Plan has these items to be done by December 2000 by Jean-Claude Perrin: Complete IBIS EMC Model Validation Work with IEC TC47 and IEC TC77 to define ways to measure and incorporate EMC characteristics into systems descriptions Encourage adoption of IBIS EMC extensions by software vendors - JC-16.2 Subcommittee: Modeling and Test - Bob Ross noted that D.C. Sessions reported provide a presentation at the JEDEC meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. His slides (which are available directly from him) showed that he reported on the progress of BIRD61, BIRD62, and BIRD63. These BIRDs relate to technologies of interest to JEDEC. ANSI/EIA-656-A UPDATE Bob Ross stated that he sent out the note to the IBIS reflectors after receiving notification from Cecilia Fleming that IBIS Version 3.2 is now officially ANSI/EIA-656-A as of September 21, 1999. Cecilia reported that she sent out a press release to 140 publications. Bob asked that we formally vote on the release of ANSI/EIA-656-A to IEC for international ratification. This was approved by unanimous vote. Cecilia indicated that IBIS Version 3.2 would probably follow as IEC 62014-2 and replace IEC 62014-1. In the mean time, we are continuing with IEC 62014-1 document preparations. IBIS (EAST) USERS GROUP MEETINGS Bob Ross noted that a meeting was held on Wednesday, September 15, 1999 to work on IBIS Summit Meeting plans. The ideas have been incorporated in the agenda. IBIS SUMMIT OCTOBER 14, 1999 Bob Ross reported on the IBIS Summit meeting scheduled on Thursday, October 14, 1999 at Marlborough, Massachusetts during the week of the PCB Conference East. Kathy Breda sent out another announcement notice on Friday, September 14, 1999. Current Sponsors are NESA, Cadence, HyperLynx, and Praegitzer Design. Kathy had reported that about 18 people are officially signed up. We know of several others who are attending, and Bob expects about 30 to 40. Along with a few presentations, we are focusing more on interactive roundtable discussions on some topics of current interest. Everyone is welcome to bring a few backup slides (versus a formal presentations) on points that you might want to raise. (Blank overheads will also be available for interactive discussions.) Bob reviewed the agenda to date. Lynne Green's presentation on "Model Design: Tables and Equations" previously announced needs to postponed to the next IBIS Summit due to an unexpected family situation preventing her from attending. Also, the Connector Specification discussion will be part of a broader discussion on IBIS Version 4.0 features. (Work is continuing on the Connector Specification, but it is not ready for full discussion yet.) After reviewing the contents and rearranging some times, the draft agenda will be sent out by Kathy on Friday, October 1, 1999 and the final meeting agenda on Thursday, October 7, 1999. The draft agenda that was sent out is is given below: 8:30 AM MORNING REFRESHMENTS (from the Sponsors) 9:00 AM Introductions and Business Bob Ross, Mentor Graphics Ed Sayre North East Systems Associates (NESA) 9:30 AM "Making the IBIS Specification More Readable" Roy Leventhal, 3Com 10:00 AM "Model Extraction Based on Differential TDR" Steven Corey, Time Domain Analysis Systems 10:30 AM BREAK (Refreshments from Sponsors) 10:45 AM Roundtable - Accuracy Specification Bob Haller, Compaq (Leader) 12:00 PM LUNCH (Provided to Attendees by the Sponsors) 1:00 PM Roundtable - Input Modeling Discussion Stephen Peters, Intel (Leader) 2:00 PM Roundtable - IBIS Version 4.0 Features Discussion Bob Ross, Mentor Graphics (Leader) 2:30 PM BREAK (Refreshments from Praegitzer Design) 2:45 PM "Proposed Improvements to the SPICE to IBIS Tool" Mohamed Nasef, Mentor Graphics 3:15 PM Roundtable - Spice to IBIS Discussion Mike LaBonte, Cadence 4:00 PM Roundtable - Future of User Group Discussion Ed Sayre, NESA (Leader) 5:00 PM FINAL BUSINESS AND ADJOURN Raj Rahuram commented that this meeting overlaps with PCB East and causes some people who need to be at the show to miss the meeting. Bob thought that the meeting spanned five days, but also noted that perhaps another day that avoids the trade show portion might have been better. S2IBIS3 COMMITTEE REPORT Michael Cohen reported on the meeting held on September 30, 1999. The main item of business was to work through items of a draft requirements document initially prepared by Syed Huq. The next subcommittee meeting is scheduled on October 7, 1999. Michael hopes the requirements document will be finished by the end of October 1999. IBIS DUES AND FUNDING At the September 10, 1999 meeting the subject of IBIS dues and funding was initially introduced. Bob Ross opened the discussion by noting that the main problem is that the IBIS Open Forum brings in about $15,000 per year, but the EIA Budget for the IBIS Committee is about $22,000. Bob commented that our dues structure is very low compared to other organizations, and we need provide reasonable support to EIA for staffing and expenses for the services that we receive. This support is shared by all member committees. However, the actual budget numbers for 1999 (which were never discussed with the Committee) contain some false assumptions and misunderstandings. Also, Cecilia Fleming noted that one of the expense items for EIA booths will no longer be allocated to committees. Furthermore, Bob noted that the Committee only controls several thousand dollars out of the total amount, mostly for the expenses associated with June IBIS Summit Meeting held during the Design Automation Conference. Bob sent out some adjusted raw data from Cecilia to the IBIS reflector of the known budget items: ------- EIA Electronic Industries Alliance EIG Electrical Information Group DAD Design Automation Division IBIS EIA IBIS Open Forum INCOME IBIS Membership Dues $15,000 Fees & Assessments Used only for Direct Expenses EXPENSES Basis: ------------------------------ IBIS EIG DAD EIA Direct Budget Budget Budget Alloc. Expense Salaries and Benefits $9,000 5% Interest Expense Not Allocated Occupancy 610 5% Bad debts Not Allocated Depreciation 250 5% Printing 200 20% Postage 300 20% Freight & Delivery 100 20% Travel & Entertainment 1,400 20% Telephone 200 20% Meetings and Conference Exp. 2,400 20% Professional Services X Memberships & Subscriptions Not Allocated Web Site Services Not Allocated Advertising & Promotions 1,000 20% Show Expenses (Deleted) Office Supplies & Misc. 100 20% ------- Total Exp. Before Corp. Alloc. 15,560 Corporate EIA 6,200 X ------- Total Expenses 21,760 ------- More recent data raised the Corporate EIA expense to about 7,700. Stephen Peters raised concern that some of the items seemed to be keyed off of income. If dues are raised, then the allocation expenses would also be raised. So the IBIS Committee will always be in the red. Cecilia stated that the year 2000 budget is being worked on and will be discussed at an EIA Board meeting on October 24, 1999. Fewer items will be allocated directly to the committees. The committees should have direct control over more expenses. Bob plans to meet with EIA staff on October 15, 1999. Bob noted that while the dues are low, many members do contribute much more in a number of ways. For example, most of the IBIS Summit Meetings are funded by sponsorship companies, and the teleconference bridges are donated. The current dues levels allows the IBIS Open Forum to gain participation of to provide a broad base of support. Bob asked what people thought their companies would be willing to pay. Several people reported that dues up to around $1000 would be tolerable. Michael Cohen and others commented that some of the larger companies are more limited since the funding is actually not from the overall corporation, but usually from a smaller group within (with tighter budget controls). Matthew Flora suggested that a lower dues number such as $500 be retained for very small companies (for example with five or less people). Currently, there is no meaningful reporting by EIA that relates to any direct expenses or additional income sources. If dues were raised, Bob would want meaningful reporting of actual income and expenses so that we can carry over our accumulated funds from year to year. Bob asked Guy de Burgh to assist in keeping track of the IBIS direct income and expenses as an added role to the Secretary function. COOKBOOK STATUS Stephen Peters had no report. IBIS MODEL REVIEW COMMITTEE DISCUSSION Matthew Flora reported that he sent out for review an IBIS model from Intel. IBISCHK3 BUG REPORT STATUS Bob Ross reported that Atul Agarwal agreed to provide the fixes for BUG36 and BUG37. We will hold the code until more bugs are fixed since the above bugs were minor. Matthew stated that he will now work on BUG34 suggestions with respect to the existing AR: AR - Matthew Flora issue a revised BUG34 to document the conditions where Warning messages are issued. BIRD62 - ENHANCED CHARACTERIZATION OF RECEIVER THRESHOLDS (discussed First) Stephen peters commented BIRD62, first discussed at the September 10, 1999 meeting, introduced the separate keyword [Receiver Thresholds], The team felt that [Model Spec] did not apply for this situation. The new keyword is sensitive only to voltage, but not to process and temperature. Bob Ross stated that he did have concerns about the new syntax, but also recognized that some of specifications of the new keyword regarding keeping a constant voltage difference over the threshold region would be difficult to specify with the [Model Spec] keyword. Furthermore, the new approach is more consistent with data sheet specifications for some of the newer technologies. Stephen still plans to respond to some of the comments and provide an updated BIRD62.1. Bob still had some concerns over syntax details. BIRD63 - DOCUMENTATION OF RECEIVER SETUP AND HOLD TIMING CONDITIONS Bob Ross noted that the resolution of the syntax issues of BIRD62 would apply to BIRD63 for receiver setup and hold timing conditions. Thus, he did not provide any comments on BIRD63. BIRD61 - ENHANCED CHARACTERIZATION OF RECEIVERS Stephen Peters commented that we still plans to update BIRD61 in respond to IBIS reflector discussions. He is still seeking EDA vendor ideas on algorithms or working models to process the tables for receiver delay changes versus some input parameters. Matthew Flora stated that D.C. Sessions presented a "chalk talk" at the February 1, 1999 IBIS Summit Meeting showing that delay adjustments fit very well a two-thirds power function of input overdrive. Bob Ross stated that there still remain four general alternatives to process the data: 1) Characterize the input into parameters and a) find the delay from the table by interpolation, or b) find the delay from an estimation formula (such as the 2/3rds power relationship), 2) Develop in input model which will process actual receiver inputs and a) have the model output a delay adjustment value, or b) have the model output a waveform from which the delay adjustment can be measured. An example of such a processor would be the Spice model itself or some reduction of it. We still need to have an idea on how the data is to be processed so that we know that we are specifying the appropriate type of data and have provided a sufficient amount of data. Discussion will continue until we reach some kind of resolution. APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE (API) DISCUSSION The meeting was extended by fifteen minutes. Will Hobbs introduced the "food for thought" need for an Application Program Interface (API) by noted that IBIS Versions 1.1, 2.1 and 3.2 all have successfully addressed emerging requirements. However, the process is slow, and newer requirements for timing analysis with picosecond resolution and simultaneous switching outputs make IBIS challenges even more difficult. Adoption of IBIS keywords for leading edge technologies such as behavioral receivers will take time. One solution is to provide the existing functionality in a manner that protects intellectual property. Will proposed the possibility of C set of procedures that might pass information on initial conditions, pin lists, pin definition, time steps, and voltage and currents at each pin. The simulation kernel could be a proprietary Spice or a public-domain Spice. The executable would include the simulation engine or else reference the public domain simulation engine (this could be more efficient since the simulation engine would not be copied in each executable). Models with advanced features could then be provided in a more timely manner. These would be vendor neutral models. A discussion followed and some of the comments are noted here. Arpad Muranyi questioned why this was different than encrypted models that could be provided. Will stated that the simulation engine was provided or else a public domain simulator could be used. Raj Raghuram stated that C and C++ interfaces were easy to do, and Berkeley Spice supported user defined functions. Will stated that the intent was to use existing Spice constructs. Arpad commented that since many companies use features of internal proprietary Spices, translation to public domain Spices might be difficult. Mike LaBonte stated that interprocess communication between an IBIS simulator and a such a model was possible. He noted several difficulties: 1) time step concerns related to convergence 2) platform support for the compiled executables 3) how to generate the model Will also added size and speed concerns. Will and Mike thought the number of platforms to support was not that large (Windows, and several flavors of UNIX.) Convergence would be made easier by passing initial conditions. Mike also stated that the model was easy to validate by the provider since it was based on the original source model. A C based model would just mimic the functionality and would need to be validated. Raj noted that binaries with function calls could be constructed. Mike stated that with executables, no encryption was needed. Encrypted models are difficult to use. Matthew Flora commented that perhaps a script interface could be used. Mike stated that this is essentially how Spice is handled. Will added that an API may make it possible to interface with IMIC. The current problem is that IMIC still requires revealing structural details. Mike added that IMIC would not be handled any differently than structural based Spice Models, although IMIC does contain an IBIS like wrapper statements for connections. Raj added that Berkeley Spice is still a good starting point at providing interfaces. Arpad commented that convergence issues might still be a general concern. Bob Ross stated that this discussion could be continued as an agenda item and eventually could evolve into a BIRD for more detailed discussion. CONNECTOR PROPOSAL STATUS Not Discussed NEXT MEETING: The next meeting will be the IBIS Summit Meeting at Marlboro, Massachusetts on Thursday, October 14, 1999 from 8:30 AM to 5 PM. Teleconference lines will NOT be available. The next teleconference meeting will be on Friday, October 29, 1999 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. ============================================================================== NOTES IBIS CHAIR: Bob Ross (503) 685-0732, Fax (503) 685-4897 bob_ross@mentor.com Modeling Engineer, Mentor Graphics 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, OR 97070 VICE CHAIR: Stephen Peters (503) 264-4108, Fax: (503) 264-4515 sjpeters@ichips.intel.com Senior Hardware Engineer, Intel Corporation M/S JF1-209 2111 NE 25th Ave. Hillsboro, OR 97124-5961 SECRETARY: Guy de Burgh (805) 988-8250, Fax: (805) 988-8259 gdeburgh@viewlogic.com Senior Manager, Viewlogic Systems 1369 Del Norte Rd. Camarillo, CA 93010-8437 LIBRARIAN: Jon Powell (805) 988-8250, Fax: (805) 988-8259 jonp@qdt.com Senior Scientist, Viewlogic Systems 1369 Del Norte Rd. Camarillo, CA 93010 WEBMASTER: Syed Huq (408) 525-3399, Fax: (408) 526-5504 shuq@cisco.com Signal Integrity Engineer, Cisco Systems 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706 POSTMASTER: Matthew Flora (425) 869-2320, Fax: (425) 881-1008 mbflora@hyperlynx.com Senior Engineer, HyperLynx, Inc. 114715 N.E. 95th Street Redmond, WA 98052 This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA Legal Guides and EIA Manual of Organization and Procedure. The following e-mail addresses are used: ibis-request@eda.org To join, change, or drop from either the IBIS Open Forum Reflector (ibis@eda.org), the IBIS Users' Group Reflector (ibis-users@eda.org) or both. State your request. ibis-info@eda.org To obtain general information about IBIS, to ask specific questions for individual response, and to inquire about joining the EIA-IBIS Open Forum as a full Member. ibis@eda.org To send a message to the general IBIS Open Forum Reflector. This is used mostly for IBIS Standardization business and future IBIS technical enhancements. Job posting information is not permitted. ibis-users@eda.org To send a message to the IBIS Users' Group Reflector. This is used mostly for IBIS clarification, current modeling issues, and general user concerns. Job posting information is not permitted. ibischk-bug@eda.org To report ibischk2/3 parser bugs. The Bug Report Form Resides on eda.org in /pub/ibis/bugs/ibischk/bugform.txt along with reported bugs. To report s2ibis, s2ibis2 and s2iplt bugs, use the Bug Report Forms which reside under eda.org in /pub/ibis/bugs/s2ibis/bugs2i.txt, /pub/ibis/bugs/s2ibis2/bugs2i2.txt, & /pub/ibis/bugs/s2iplt/bugsplt.txt respectively. Information on IBIS technical contents, IBIS participants, and actual IBIS models are available on the IBIS Home page found by selecting the Electronic Information Group under: http://www.eia.org Check the pub/ibis directory on eda.org for more information on previous discussions and results. You can get on via FTP anonymous. ==============================================================================