DATE: 03/14/06 SUBJECT: March 10, 2006 EIA IBIS Open Forum Minutes VOTING MEMBERS AND 2006 PARTICIPANTS Actel (Prabhu Mohan) Agere (Nirav Patel) AMD (Wasim Ullah), Tadashi Arai Ansoft Corporation Michael Brenneman Applied Simulation Technology Fred Balistreri Cadence Design Systems Lance Wang Cisco Systems Syed Huq*, Mike Labonte* AbdulRahman Rafiq, Pedo Miran Salman Jiva, Gurpreet Hundal Todd Westerhoff Fluent (Chetan Desai) Freescale (Jon Burnett) Green Streak Programs Lynne Green Hitachi ULSI Systems Kazuyoshi Shoji Huawei Technologies (Xiangzhong Jiang) Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) (Dan Clementi) Intel Corporation Michael Mirmak*, Arpad Muranyi, Stephen Peters, Vishram Pandit LSI Logic Frank Gasparik*, Kim Helliwell Praveen Soora Marvell (Itzik Peleg) Mentor Graphics John Angulo*, Ian Dodd, Gary Pratt Guy de Burgh, Simon Vines Micron Technology Randy Wolff* NEC Electronics Corporation Takeshi Watanabe Panasonic Atsuji Ito Samtec (Corey Kimble) Siemens AG Eckhard Lenski, Manfred Maurer Katja Koller, Klaus Huebner, Heinz-Hartmut Ibowski, Flavio Maggioni, Roberto Preatoni Siemens Medical David Lieby Signal Integrity Software Barry Katz, Douglas Burns, Mike Mayer Walter Katz Sigrity Sam Chitwood Silego (Joe Froniewski) Silicon Image (Ook Kim) STMicroelectronics (Antonio Girardi) Synopsys Andy Tai, Ted Mido Teraspeed Consulting Group Bob Ross* Texas Instruments Otis Gorley, Richard Ward Xilinx (Ray Anderson) Zuken Michael Schaeder, Ralf Bruening OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN 2006: Agilent Sanjeev Gupta Altera Khalid Ansari Amkor Technology Nozad Karim Apple Computer Zhiping Yang Betty TV Stephanie Goedecke Bosch Ingo Doerr, Jurgen Hasch EFM Ekkehard Miersch Dell Aubrey Sparkman Force10 Networks Robert Badal GEIA (Chris Denham) Infineon Radovan Vuletic, Minka Gospodinova Christian Sporrer, Amir Motamedi KAW Kazuhiko Kusunoki Leventhal Design Roy Leventhal* Lynguent Andrew Levy Politecnico di Torino Igor Stievano Rambus Nirmal Jain Samsung Heeseok Lee SimLab Heiko Grubrich Vectronix AG Luca Giacotto 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 March 31, 2006 1-916-356-2663 4 546-0115 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 No new participants. CALL FOR PATENTS Michael Mirmak called for any patents or pending patents related to the IBIS Version 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, or ICM 1.1 specifications. No patents were declared. MEMBERSHIP UPDATE AND TREASURER'S REPORT Michael Mirmak reported that an initial treasurer's report was received for 2005 and the beginning of this year. Most financial issues have been resolved. Many renewals have been received, but there are many more to come in. REVIEW OF MINUTES AND ARS Michael Mirmak reviewed the minutes of the February 9, 2006 DesignCon IBIS Summit and the February 17, 2006 IBIS Open Forum teleconference. The minutes were approved without changes. PRESS AND WEB PAGE UPDATES Michael Mirmak reported that there are updates to the roster being made with new member joins. Bob Ross is helping to correct or purge obsolete information from the roster. Syed Huq reported that he added a new entry from SimLab in Germany to the roster. MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION Bob Ross reported that everything is running normally. Bob noted that some subscribers are only on one of the two mailing lists, and this does cause some erroneous bounces. Bob suggested that we might start sending announcements and minutes to only the ibis and not ibis-users list. Or we might merge the two lists. Michael Mirmak suggested this be discussed in the administrative meeting. NEW MODELS AVAILABLE, LIBRARY UPDATE Michael Mirmak reported for Lance Wang that he updated site lists of models links. No new companies have been added. Michael mentioned that Bob Ross was looking into posting a separate link to ICM models. Roy Leventhal thought this would be a good idea. MISCELLANY/ANNOUNCEMENTS None. OPENS FOR NEW ISSUES None. INTERNATIONAL/EXTERNAL PROGRESS Bob Ross had no new report. Michael Mirmak mentioned that he is still investigating handling of IBIS issues with the TC93 committee in IEC. EIA/ANSI APPROVAL ACTIVITIES Randy Wolff reported that he received word from GEIA that the ICM 1.1 specification gained ANSI approval on January 18, 2006. Michael Mirmak sent a message to the IBIS reflector detailing this. Michael also mentioned that GEIA issued a press release, and the EETimes picked up the story. Official copies of the new standard, ANSI/GEIA STD-0001-2006, are available through GEIA (http://www.geia.org). Randy also stated that there is officially a project opened with GEIA to prepare for IBIS 4.2 standardization. So, once IBIS 4.2 is released by the Open Forum committee, it is ready to begin the GEIA standardization process. SUMMITS - DATE The DATE summit was held Friday, March 10, 2006 in Munich, Germany. No update on the event was available during the teleconference. Bob Ross said that there were 22 signups before the meeting. Bob has many of the presentations uploaded to the IBIS website. Bob noted that four people from Japan attended. Also, Arpad Muranyi was going to be meeting with some people to discuss the gate modulation BIRD. - Summits in Asia Michael Mirmak reported that he sent a note to JEITA and others regarding the possibility of events in Japan in the March/April timeframe. The note said that we would not be able to organize an event this early in the year, but suggested that a summit in October would be better. Bob Ross mentioned that another Asian IBIS Summit in China might also be scheduled in the same timeframe for economical US travel to all Asian activities. IBIS QUALITY COMMITTEE Mike Labonte reported that they did not make quorum for the last meeting, so there is no new committee progress to report. He was pleased to see some models with IBIS Quality headers in them recently. Bob Ross mentioned that there is another meeting next Tuesday. The link to the quality committee checklist is at: http://www.ibis-information.org/quality_wip/ IBIS MODEL REVIEW COMMITTEE Michael Mirmak reported for Lynne Green that the committee concluded review on a recent model. The committee is open for receiving new models to review. FUTURES AND COOKBOOK COMMITTEES Michael Mirmak reported that both committees have been meeting every Thursday. The committee is waiting for feedback from Lynne Green on V-t table descriptions in the Cookbook. There were two separate discussions on the IBIS 4.2 draft. The committee also had a preliminary review of an ICM to IBIS linking method. A draft BIRD was put forth, and there was good discussion and comments. Recent committee material is stored at: http://www.ibis-information.org/futures/ The Cookbook version 4 is stored at: http://www.ibis-information.org/ibis/cookbook/cookbook-v4.pdf MACROMODELING LIBRARY COMMITTEE Mike Labonte reported that there are some new Perl based tools being written for the library as well as a lot of work on improving what has been completed so far. There has been good participation from the EDA companies, and this is key to the library being successful. Committee material can be found at the following url: http://www.ibis-information.org/macromodel_wip/ NEW ISSUES None. IBIS 4.2 DRAFT Michael Mirmak mentioned that Bob Ross and Arpad Muranyi have been working on the draft IBIS 4.2 document, and he officially introduced it for review by the Open Forum. He said that three readings will be held to give time for review and updating. This meeting is the first reading. Bob Ross said that for editorial cleanup, the multilingual section syntax on figures needs work. Michael mentioned that some editorial and minor grammatical issues were discussed in the Futures meeting. Bigger issues involve matters of referencing of I-V tables. The text mentions voltage rails, but this may need to be changed to mention specific voltage nodes. Bob said that this would be a good cleanup, but it probably wouldn't change how many simulators use the models. John Angulo agreed with this assessment. Michael asked if we have posted an updated draft revision that lists the changes made to the document. Bob said that this has been handled so far. Michael said that any comments can be sent to the reflectors, any members of the IBIS board, Bob Ross or Arpad Muranyi, or bring them up in the next meeting. Michael also mentioned that there are minor edits in the package and EBD sections that need to have specific units defined for inductances and capacitances. BIRD97.2: GATE MODULATION EFFECT No update. Arpad Muranyi was planning to discuss the BIRD with Katja Koller and Antonio Girardi at the DATE Summit. BIRD98: GATE MODULATION EFFECT (TABLE FORMAT) See BIRD97.2 for discussion related to BIRD98. IBISCHK4 BUG STATUS Randy Wolff introduced BUG93, "Single-ended Threshold Warnings for Differential Models." Randy found that in models that combine differential [Receiver Thresholds] parameters, the [Diff Pin] keyword to reference two pins of the component to be differential, and multiple [Model]s referenced through the [Model Selector] keyword, the parser gives a false error. The IBISCHK4 parser is confused by the [Model Selector] and thinks that the [Model]s should contain single ended [Receiver Thresholds] parameters. Errors and warnings are issued related to this. Michael Mirmak asked if the committee had addressed this issue before. Bob Ross said that the committee began defining requirements of differential buffers in the [Model Selector], but did not address this specifically. This appears to be a testing flaw with the [Receiver Thresholds] keyword. Randy stated that it would be nice to include both single ended and differential parameters under Receiver Thresholds. Mike Labonte agreed with this. Randy mentioned potentially introducing a BIRD to address this. Michael asked about classification. It was classified as Severe, Medium, and Open. Some discussion ensued on which BUGs will be addressed in the IBIS 4.2 parser. John Angulo has looked at this briefly, and some BUG fixes should be very simple to implement. ICMCHK1 BUG STATUS Michael Mirmak mentioned that no new BUGs have been filed. NEW TECHNICAL ISSUES Roy Leventhal gave an overview of his new book, "Semiconductor Modeling: For Simulating Signal, Power, and ElectroMagnetic Integrity." Lynee Green is a co-author. Arpad Muranyi included a presentation that is on the CDROM. The book includes chapters on key concepts of IBIS, simulating with IBIS models, where to find models, common errors in models, and future capabilities of IBIS. It is intended to be an engineering book, not a college textbook. It also cites a lot of references for further study and is in general an overview of all the different issues involved in EDA software. More information can be found at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/ 0,11855,4-40109-22-77145088-0,00.html Bob Ross also mentioned another book from Springer being published on EMI. The book is entitled "Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits: Techniques for Low Emission and Susceptibility." Bob contributed a piece on IBIS for the book. More information can be found at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/ 0,11855,4-40109-22-86706278-0,00.html NEXT MEETING The next IBIS Open Forum teleconference will be held March 31, 2006 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM US Pacific Time. ============================================================================ NOTES IBIS CHAIR: Michael Mirmak (916) 356-4261, Fax: (916) 377-3788 michael.mirmak@intel.com Server Platform Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel Corporation FM5-79 1900 Prairie City Rd. Folsom, CA 95630 VICE CHAIR: 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 SECRETARY: Randy Wolff (208) 363-1764, Fax: (208) 368-3475 rrwolff@micron.com Simulation Engineer, Micron Technology, Inc. 8000 S. Federal Way Mail Stop: 01-711 Boise, ID 83707-0006 LIBRARIAN: Lance Wang (978) 262-6685, Fax: (978) 262-6363 lwang@cadence.com Senior Member, Technical Staff, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 270 Billerica Road Chelmsford, MA 01824 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: Bob Ross (503) 246-8048, Fax : (503) 239-4400 bob@teraspeed.com Staff Scientist, Teraspeed Consulting Group 10238 SW Lancaster Road Portland, OR 97219 This meeting was conducted in accordance with the GEIA Legal Guides and GEIA Manual of Organization and Procedure. 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