DATE: 01/15/04 SUBJECT: January 9, 2004 EIA IBIS Open Forum Meeting Minutes VOTING MEMBERS AND 2004 PARTICIPANTS Ansoft Corporation (Eric Bracken) Apple Computer (To Be Determined) Applied Simulation Technology (Fred Balistreri) Cadence Design Systems Lance Wang* Cisco Systems Syed Huq* Fairchild Semiconductor (Graham Connolly) Hitachi ULSI Systems (Kazuyoshi Shoji) Huawei Technologies (Jiang Xiang Zhong) Intel Corporation Michael Mirmak*, Arpad Muranyi* LSI Logic Frank Gasparik* Matsushita (Panasonic) (Atsuji Ito) Mentor Graphics Guy de Burgh*, Ian Dodd* John Angulo* Micron Technology Randy Wolff* Molex Incorporated (Gus Panella) Motorola (Rick Kingen) National Semiconductor (Lee Sledjeski) NEC Electric Corporation (Itsuki Yamada) North East Systems Associates (Edward Sayre) Philips Semiconductor (D.C. Sessions) Samtec (Corey Kimble) Siemens AG (Eckhard Lenski) Signal Integrity Software (Bob Haller) Sigrity (Raymond Chen) Sun Microsystems (Tim Coyle) Synopsys (Hailong Wang) Texas Instruments (Thomas Fisher) Teraspeed Bob Ross* Time Domain Analysis Systems (Dima Smolyansky) Zuken (& Incases) (Michael Schaeder) OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN 2004: GEIA (Chris Denham) Green Streak Programs Lynne Green* 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 Telephone Number Bridge # Passcode January 30, 2004 1-916-356-2663 3 588-9637 February 2, 2004 DesignCon SUMMIT, Santa Clara, CA NO PHONE BRIDGE February 20, 2004 European SUMMIT, Paris, France NO PHONE BRIDGE February 20, 2004 1-916-356-3663 Numbers to be determined All meetings are 8:00 AM to 9:55 AM US Pacific Time. Meeting agendas are typically distributed seven days before each Open Forum. Minutes are typically distributed within seven days of the corresponding meeting. When calling into the meeting, provide the bridge number and passcode at the automated prompts. If asked by an operator, please request to join the IBIS Open Forum hosted by Michael Mirmak. For international dial-in numbers, please contact Michael Mirmak. NOTE: "AR" = Action Required. --------------------------------MINUTES----------------------------------- INTRODUCTIONS AND MEETING QUORUM New participant Lance Wang of Cadence Design Systems introduced himself. While he has attended previous summit meetings, this meeting was his first Open Forum. CALL FOR PATENTS Michael Mirmak called for any patents or pending patents related to the IBIS Version 4.0, 4.1, or ICM 1.0 specifications. No patents were declared. MEMBERSHIP UPDATE AND TREASURER'S REPORT Michael Mirmak mentioned that Open Forum membership remained at 28 organizations through the end of 2003. He met personally with GEIA representatives at their headquarters in early January and confirmed that the 2004 membership invoices had been completed and mailed. The Open Forum is to expect the 2003 annual financial statement in mid February. Michael also reported that the 2004 membership drive has already resulted in several renewal commitments from current members and one new member. Bob Ross noted that Samtec has joined as a new member in 2004 and has a membership invoice in processing. Syed Huq reported that the IBIS roster listing has been updated and a Samtec logo is being added to the virtual poster. REVIEW OF MINUTES AND ARS The December 5, 2003 meeting minutes were approved with no changes. Michael Mirmak noted that the GEIA archives copies of the IBIS Open Forum minutes after approval by the GEIA counsel. MISCELLANY/ANNOUNCEMENTS No additional announcements were made. PRESS AND WEB PAGE UPDATES In response to a question, Syed Huq noted that the EIGROUP web site updates have not yet been posted, as the EIGROUP web administrator has recently changed. Bob Ross suggested that the new EIGROUP administrator be reminded that the IBIS Open Forum expects a one-day response on web site update requests. Bob also mentioned that Arpad Muranyi's latest IBIS training foils have been posted to the EDA site. Arpad Muranyi inquired about the format of the BIRD reports on the IBIS eda.org website. At present, none of the files has a .txt extension identifying as a text file to internet browsers. As a result, the files can cause a variety of inconvenient barriers to easy viewing. Ian Dodd noted that certain Mentor products use numerical file extension associations and often attempt to open BIRD reports viewed online. Michael Mirmak accepted the AR to add .txt extensions to the existing BIRD reports and to confirm with Arpad that the fix resolves the problem. NEW MODELS AVAILABLE, LIBRARY UPDATE No new models received. OPENS FOR NEW ISSUES No new issues. MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION John Angulo reported that the ibis-request, ibis-info, ibis-bug and icm-bug mailing list reflectors are now handled entirely under majordomo. Passwords and other administrative details have been distributed appropriately. John also noted that Randy Harr of eda.org reported that the eda.org servers crashed on or about December 22. The archive used to restore the IBIS directories showed only a few differences due to recent reflector messages and HTML updates. In response to a question, Bob Ross observed that the reflectors have between 400 and 450 subscribers. INTERNATIONAL/EXTERNAL PROGRESS - JEDEC Activity Report Lynne Green reported that she will present to the JEDEX conference on IBIS during the week of April 15, 2004. - FSA Modeling Committee Lynne Green reported that she will present a talk on IBIS quality to the Fabless Semiconductor Association in San Jose during the week of April 15, 2004. The Fabless Semiconductor Association can be found at: http://www.fsa.org - Other Activities No update DESIGNCON 2004 SUMMIT PLANNING Lynne Green reported that a draft agenda for the DesignCon Summit has been prepared and a third call for papers has been distributed. A fourth call will be issued during the week of January 12. Michael Mirmak reported that, thanks to the efforts of Syed Huq, Cisco has kindly agreed to provide refreshments for the summit. Michael thanked Syed and Cisco for their contribution. Bob Ross observed that Guy de Burgh may wish to send out another reminder to member organizations to provide logos for the display booth. In addition, Lynne Green reminded attendees to register with her for the summit if they had not already done so. Syed Huq confirmed that he will be making paper copies of presentations for distribution at the summit. Syed requests that all presentation materials be sent to him no later than one week before the summit. Paper copies will be printed two slides per double-sided page. EUROPEAN DATE SUMMIT PLANNING Bob Ross reported that a third DATE announcement has been distributed and six speakers are tentatively scheduled to present, on topics including ICEM and applications of multi-lingual technologies. Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics and Zuken are collaborating to sponsor the IBIS Summit which will take place on Friday, February 20, 2004 in Paris. The summit will run from 9 AM to 2 PM Paris local time. Potential speakers and participants are welcome to contact Ralf Bruening of Zuken or Bob for further details. Thanks again to Ralf and to Eckhard Lenski of Siemens for arranging the summit. OTHER SUMMITS Bob Ross noted that the annual DAC meeting, at which IBIS officer elections have taken place in the past, will be held in San Diego in June 2004. Additionally, a DesignCon conference will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire on the US East Coast in April 2004. Bob suggested that a summit might be held during this DesignCon in a similar fashion to the summit held in October 2003. For such a summit, the logistics associated with a booth may be more profitably applied toward a teleconference bridge. East Coast organizations such as SiSoft, NESA or Cadence may be interested in hosting the meeting. Michael accepted the AR to investigate this further and to contact the appropriate organizations. Bob also noted that a DesignCon for Europe was being planned for October, most likely in Munich. IBIS VERSION 4.0 PARSER FUNDING AND STATUS Michael Mirmak reported that the invoice for the 4.0.1 parser has been received and filed for payment with the GEIA. The 4.0.1 parser executables were posted and distributed in December, 2003. IBIS 4.0 parser work is therefore considered closed until BUG reports, if any, are filed for the 4.0.1 version. IBIS QUALITY COMMITTEE Bob Ross reported that meetings continue every two weeks, with the next scheduled for January 13. A meeting was announced for December 30, but was quickly adjourned due to lack of attendance. Edits continue on the comprehensive quality guidelines and checklist document. No formal title has yet been assigned to the document. A report on the committee's progress will be delivered at the DesignCon summit. IBIS MODEL REVIEW COMMITTEE Lynne Green reported that no new models have been received by the committee since the last meeting. She noted that Lance Wang is the new model reviewer from Cadence Design Systems. Lynne accepted the AR to ensure that the website reflects this. S2IBIS3 Bob Ross reports no changes since the last meeting. S2IBIS3 beta executables can be downloaded from: http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/erl/ibis/s2ibis3/s2ibis3.htm Feedback on the current beta version is appreciated and encouraged. ICM SPECIFICATION AND PARSER STATUS Michael Mirmak again raised the issue of a specification change process for ICM, similar to the IBIS BIRD process. The BIRD (Buffer Issue Resolution Document) acronym, however, clearly cannot apply. The members present suggested a variety of names, including IIRD (ICM Issue Resolution Document), ICM-RD (ICM Resolution Document) and even ICHABOD. Lynne Green suggested, due to time constraints, that all suggestions be sent to Michael Mirmak for consideration. The new name will be announced by Michael at the next meeting. NEW ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES No new issues. BIRD85.3: SLEW TIME CLARIFICATIONS John Angulo introduced BIRD85.3, an update to BIRD85. The revised text clearly states that the Rload subparameter is ignored if [Ramp] is used under an [External Model]. No additional comments or questions were raised. Michael Mirmak called for a formal vote. The BIRD was approved unanimously and will be included in the draft text of version 4.1 of the IBIS specification. BIRD86.1: CLARIFICATION OF SUBMODEL MODE Lynne Green introduced BIRD86.1, an update to BIRD86. The revised text adds a paragraph to explain the available Submodel modes, but now simply brings the specification into conformance with current parser behavior. No additional comments or questions were raised. Michael Mirmak called for a formal vote. The BIRD was approved unanimously and will be included in the draft text of version 4.1 of the IBIS specification. IBIS VERSION 4.1 FOURTH READING Michael Mirmak announced the fourth official "reading" of the IBIS 4.1 specification, and called for comments. Bob Ross volunteered to add the two approved BIRDs to the 4.1 draft and post the updated text. At present, a 4.1D edition is posted. Michael raised the issue of an approval vote. According to Open Forum bylaws, documents requiring approval votes must be publicly available for at least two weeks, to allow for adequate review. Lynne Green suggested that at least one meeting be held to discuss a stable version of the draft specification before any vote. Michael noted that a vote could take place at the IBIS Summit in February; Bob confirmed that at least one previous version of the specification was approved through a summit vote. Ian Dodd voiced the opinion that such face-to-face meetings may not be the best venue for deciding such issues, as discussions of relatively minor issues might prevent the vote from ever taking place. Bob and Arpad Muranyi suggested that a stable review draft, including the latest BIRDs, be posted within one week of this meeting. This would allow two weeks of review before the January 30 Open Forum. If issues arose at that meeting which would prevent an approval vote, further discussion could take place at the summit. This plan was adopted without objection. Draft copies of version 4.1 are available in a variety of formats at: http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/ver4.1_wip/ BUG80 John Angulo summarized the current state of BUG80. The BUG applies a more strict interpretation of keyword hierarchies than is made explicit in the specification. In addition, the BUG error message could be clarified. Arpad noted that he was working on a clarification of [Model Selector] and series element keywords, as the [Series Pin Mapping] definition does not clearly state its relationship with [Model Selector]. Bob agreed that some sort of BIRD would be required to clarify many of the top-level keywords' scopes, including perhaps adding a hierarchy tree explicitly to the specification, as Michael has suggested in the past. The BUG report will remain open until one or more BIRDs are issued to clarify the affected keyword scopes. NEXT MEETING The next Open Forum teleconference has been scheduled for January 30, 2004 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM US Pacific Standard Time. A vote regarding the approval of IBIS 4.1 is scheduled. The next IBIS Summit will take place at DesignCon 2004 on February 2, 2004 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, California. ======================================================================== NOTES IBIS CHAIR: Michael Mirmak (916) 356-4261, Fax: (916) 377-1046 michael.mirmak@intel.com Senior Analog Engineer, Intel Corporation M/S FM6-45 1900 Prairie City Rd. Folsom, CA 95630 VICE CHAIR: Lynne Green (425) 788-0412, Fax (425) 788-4289 lgreen22@mindspring.com Green Streak Programs 20130 181st PL NE Woodinville, WA 98077 SECRETARY: Randy Wolff (208) 363-1764, Fax: (208) 368-3475 rrwolff@micron.com Simulation Engineer, Micron Technology, Inc. 8000 S. Federal Way Mail Stop: 1-711 Boise, ID 83707-0006 LIBRARIAN: Roy Leventhal (847) 590-9398 roy.leventhal@ieee.org Consultant, Leventhal Design and Communications 1924 North Burke Drive Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 WEBMASTER: Syed Huq (408) 525-3399, Fax: (408) 526-5504 shuq@cisco.com Manager, Hardware Engineering, Cisco Systems 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706 POSTMASTER: John Angulo (425) 497-5077, Fax: (425) 881-1008 John_angulo@mentor.com Development Engineer, Mentor Graphics 14715 N.E. 95th Street, Suite 200 Redmond, WA 98052 This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA Legal Guides and EIA Manual of Organization and Procedure. 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