EIA IBIS Open Forum Minutes Meeting Date: June 1, 2007 GEIA STANDARDS BALLOT VOTING STATUS See last page of the minutes for the voting status of all member companies. VOTING MEMBERS AND 2007 PARTICIPANTS Actel (Prabhu Mohan) Agere (Nirav Patel) Agilent Radek Biernacki, Saliou Dieye, Riccardo Giacometti AMD Nam Nguyen*, Tadashi Arai Ansoft Corporation (Michael Brenneman) Apache Design Solutions (Ji Zheng) Applied Simulation Technology (Fred Balistreri) Apple Computer (Bill Cornelius) Cadence Design Systems [Lance Wang], C. Kumar, Hemant Shah, Patrick dos Santos Cisco Systems Syed Huq*, Tram Bui, AbdulRahman Rafiq, Huyen Pham, Darja Padilla, Mike LaBonte*, Paul Ruddy, Gurpreet Hundal, Luis Boluna, Ehsan Kabir, Jehyoung Lee, Susmita Mutsuddy, Eddie Wu Ericsson Anders Ekholm*, Ole Segtum Fluent (Chetan Desai) Freescale Jon Burnett Green Streak Programs Lynne Green* Hitachi ULSI Systems Kazuyoshi Shoji Huawei Technologies ChunXing Huang, Bob He Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) (Dan Clementi) Intel Corporation Michael Mirmak*, Arpad Muranyi* LSI Logic Frank Gasparik, Kim Helliwell, Dinh Tran, Praveen Soora Mentor Graphics John Angulo*, [Ian Dodd], Eric Rongere, Stephane Rousseau Micron Technology Randy Wolff*, Pavani Jella NEC Electronics Corporation Hock Seow, Huy Tran Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH[1] Eckhard Lenski*, Flavio Maggioni, Roberto Preatoni, Umberto Gatti, Massimo Ceppi Panasonic (Atsuji Ito) Samtec (Corey Kimble) Siemens AG [1] [Eckhard Lenski], Manfred Maurer Signal Integrity Software Barry Katz, Douglas Burns, Mike Steinberger, Walter Katz, Todd Westerhoff Sigrity Sam Chitwood, Sandy Dung Silego (Joe Froniewski) STMicroelectronics Antonio Girardi*, Giacomo Bernardi*, Roberto Izzi* Synopsys Ted Mido Teraspeed Consulting Group Bob Ross*, Tom Dagostino Texas Instruments Otis Gorley*, Richard Ward, Bonnie Baker Toshiba (Yasumasa Kondo) Xilinx Bruce Bandeli, David Banas ZTE (Shunlin Zhu) Zuken Michael Schaeder, Ralf Bruening [1] Nokia Siemens Networks is a new company formed by the merger with a former group at Siemens active with the IBIS Committee. Both companies are temporarily carried as voting members until the official membership and voting status is resolved. OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN 2007 74ze Engineering Linc Jepson Altera Hui Liu, Zhe Lin, Ravindra Gali, Salman Jiva Applied Telisis, Inc. (ATI) Vladimar Mandrusov Cavium Networks Johann Nittmann ChipX Jay Hidy, Oren Dvir Cybernet Systems Kazuhiki Kusunoki EFM Ekkehard Miersch Enterasys Robert Haller Extreme Networks Kevin Ko Force10 Networks Robert Badal GEIA (Chris Denham) Hewlett Packard Shafiq Rahman IBM Michael Sorna, Adge Hawes Infineon Christian Sporrer IO Methodology Lance Wang* Leventhal Design Roy Leventhal Lynguent Andrew Levy National Institute of Applied Etienne Sicard Science (INSA) National Instruments Lee Maixman Netlogic Eric Hsu NESA Edward Sayre Nuova Systems Zhiping Yang, Lin Shen NXP H N Sudarshan Optimal Corporation Marc Kowalski Politecnico di Torino Igor Stievano, Michelangelo Bandinu Renesas Technology Takuji Komeda Samsung Sang-Soo Park Sedona International Joe Socha Sun Microelectronics Leon Yang Tiburon Design Automation Patirick Challacn White Electronics Designs John Perez Xyratex Paul Levin, Joseph Chan 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 June 5, 2007 IBIS Summit, San Diego, CA - no phone bridge June 22, 2007 1-916-356-2663 3 673-0535 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- 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, 4.2, or ICM 1.1 specifications. No patents were declared. MEMBERSHIP UPDATE AND TREASURER'S REPORT Michael Mirmak reported that GEIA has sent updates recently. There is no significant change to membership or treasurer reports from the last meeting. Membership is trending as expected. Michael reminded people to contact him for membership questions and renewal information. He also reminded participants that after the DAC meetings, non-renewed members will be dropped from the membership rolls and be considered an “other participant” until their membership is renewed. REVIEW OF MINUTES AND ARS Michael Mirmak reviewed the minutes of the May 11, 2007 IBIS Open Forum teleconference. The minutes were approved with no changes. WEB PAGE UPDATES No report. MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION Bob Ross reported that the list is running normally, but he is checking into an issue with majordomo bouncing messages right now. NEW MODELS AVAILABLE, LIBRARY UPDATE Lance Wang recently checked into links, and updates will be posted shortly. He is also in the process of checking that all company names are correctly listed. PRESS UPDATE None. MISCELLANY/ANNOUNCEMENTS None. OPENS FOR NEW ISSUES Syed Huq requested a discussion on encryption. Bob Ross requested a discussion of BUG96 and BUG97. INTERNATIONAL/EXTERNAL PROGRESS Several upcoming conferences of interest to IBIS members include: SSP, the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop held August 26-29, 2007 in Madison, WI. The deadline for paper submissions has passed. More information can be found at: http://ssp07.org/ IMS 2007, the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium held June 3-7, 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The paper deadline has passed. More information can be found at: http://www.ims2007.org/ EMC 2007, the IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility held July 8-13, 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii. More information can be found at: http://www.emc2007.org/index.htm IEC APPROVAL ACTIVITIES Randy Wolff had no update. Michael Mirmak dropped a note to Alex Zamfirescu about IEC approval, but he has not gotten a response yet. Michael noted that there is a conflict of the DASC committee meeting and the IBIS meeting at DAC. Bob Ross suggested we try to have lunch with some of the DASC members. SUMMITS - DAC DAC is being held June 4-8, 2007 in San Diego, California. Tuesday, June 5 is scheduled for the summit. There will be an all-day summit. The agenda has been published. There is a full slate of presentations. The meeting starts at 8:30am. There will be elections of officers at the meeting as well. John Angulo mentioned he will bring a projector. John confirmed that we have a room reservation. - Asia Events Two events are planned for Tokyo and Beijing in September. Tuesday, September 11 will be the China meeting in Beijing. The Park Plaza Science Park hotel is reserved. Friday, September 14 will be the Tokyo meeting at JEITA headquarters. Bob Ross is the main contact for signing up for the Japan meeting, and Bob and Lance Wang are contacts for signing up for the China summit. The official sponsor of the Japan summit is JEITA with others to be determined. Michael Mirmak mentioned that the first call for papers for the China Summit will go out next week. Agilent Technologies has been added as a co-sponsor of the China Summit. Other official sponsors so far of the China summit are Huawei Technologies, Ansoft, Cadence, Intel, Mentor Graphics, Sigrity, SiSoft, Synopsys and ZTE Corporation. Bob mentioned that deadlines for the China meeting are about a month earlier than for the Japan meeting. Sponsorship opportunities for the DAC and Asian IBIS summits are available, with sponsors receiving free mentions in the minutes, agenda, and other announcements. Contact the IBIS Board for further details. IBIS QUALITY TASK GROUP Mike LaBonte reported that the group is in the process of reviewing the checks within the 1.1 version of the Quality specification. At the last meeting, they discussed [Receiver Thresholds]. The group is meeting on a weekly basis, and they will have a detailed summary of progress at the DAC meeting. The link to the quality task group checklist is at: http://www.eda-stds.org/ibis/quality_wip/ IBIS MODEL REVIEW TASK GROUP Lynne reported that she hasn’t had any models for review recently. Michael Mirmak said that he would advertise this service at the DAC meeting. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MODELING TASK GROUP Michael Mirmak reported that the group is reviewing the algorithmic modeling proposal including a draft BIRD. Todd Westerhoff will give a presentation of recent progress at the DAC meeting. Task group material can be found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/ibis/macromodel_wip/ AD HOC TASK GROUPS (INTERCONNECT) Michael Mirmak reported that the group is going over the Touchstone 2 document and how changes from IIRD9 will change referencing of S-parameter files. A draft of the Touchstone2 document will be distributed at DAC. He would like to start the formal document review at the next IBIS Open Forum teleconference. Task group material including the Touchstone2 draft specification can be found at: http://www.eda.org/ibis/adhoc/interconnect/ NEW ISSUES None. BIRD98.1: GATE MODULATION EFFECT (TABLE MODEL) Roberto Izzi had no update. He is waiting for some editorial changes from Bob Ross before submitting BIRD98.2 for review. Bob Ross mentioned that he has some work to do to convert the data tables to VDD-relative format. IBISCHK4 BUG STATUS Bob Ross submitted BUG96 and BUG97. BUG96 relates to an issue with the ibischk4.2.1 not issuing line numbers related to non-monotonicities in the I-V tables. BUG97 relates to ibischk4.2.1 not issuing as many combined notes and warnings as were previously issued as warnings in older versions of the parser. BUG96 was classified as moderate severity, low priority, and open. Mike LaBonte mentioned that it would be nice to see voltage points or voltage ranges related to non-monotonicities in combined I-V tables. Bob described the complexity of this when combining as many as 5 tables together. BUG97 was classified as annoying severity, low priority, and open. Bob mentioned that Atul Agarwal has agreed to fix these BUGs in a 4.2.2 release of the parser in about one week. Michael reported receiving a one page document from Agilent detailing issues with integrating the parser into other executable code. Michael plans to post the page and use this as recommendations for future parser development. Lance Wang agreed with many of Agilent’s conclusions and felt that more documentation such as this is very useful. Lynne Green also mentioned that users of the parser code (command line usage) should be considered, because they may have different needs than those who are integrating the parser into larger software suites. ICMCHK1 BUG STATUS Michael Mirmak mentioned that BUG4 is pending with no timeline for fixing it. NEW TECHNICAL ISSUES Syed Huq asked for an update on progress with encryption. Arpad Muranyi said that the digital parts of the VHDL and Verilog languages are where encryption will be made available, but the AMS working groups do not know when a release supporting encryption will happen. John Angulo said that SI software tools get their AMS engines from the groups writing code for IC tools, so there is a definite time lag in waiting for the IC tool groups to integrate encryption. John said that on a case-by-case basis, one may have to use a proprietary encryption workaround until the specifications are finalized and implemented. Arpad expressed concern that our impact on affecting these specifications is minimal, and we may need to establish a larger presence in the working groups. Michael Mirmak said that he has attended a meeting before, and he suggested that he attend more meetings to make an official presentation of IBIS needs from the AMS working groups. Bob Ross suggested that we looking into more companies joining these working groups to have voting status and have some control over these issues. Michael said he will look into meeting with some folks from DASC group in person at the IBIS meeting to chat about needs, and long term, look into joining these groups. OPEN ISSUES None. NEXT MEETING The next Open Forum Summit meeting at DAC will be held June 5, 2007. The next IBIS Open Forum teleconference will be held June 22, 2007 from 8:00am to 10:00am 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 FM5-239 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 SI Modeling Manager, Micron Technology, Inc. 8000 S. Federal Way Mail Stop: 01-711 Boise, ID 83707-0006 LIBRARIAN: Lance Wang (978) 633-3388 lwang@iometh.com President / CEO, IO Methodology, Inc. PO Box 2099 Acton, MA 01720 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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GEIA STANDARDS BALLOT VOTING STATUS I/O Buffer Information Specification Committee (IBIS) |Organization |Interest |Standard|April |April |May | June | | |Category |s Ballot|19, |20, |11, |1, | | | |Voting |2007 |2007 |2007 |2007 | | | |Status | | | | | |Advanced Micro |Producer |Active | |( |( |( | |Devices | | | | | | | |Agere Systems |User |Inactive| | | | | |Agilent |User |Inactive|( | | | | |Technologies | | | | | | | |Ansoft |User |Inactive| | | | | |Apache Design |User |Inactive| | | | | |Solutions | | | | | | | |Apple Computer |User |Inactive| | | | | |Applied |User |Inactive| | | | | |Simulation | | | | | | | |Technology | | | | | | | |Cadence Design |User |Inactive|( | | | | |Systems | | | | | | | |Cisco Systems |User |Active | |( |( |( | |Ericsson |Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |Fluent |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Freescale |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Semiconductor | | | | | | | |Green Streak |General |Inactive| | | |( | |Programs |Interest | | | | | | |Hitachi ULSI |Producer |Inactive|( | | | | |Systems | | | | | | | |Huawei |User |Inactive| | | | | |Technologies | | | | | | | |Integrated |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Circuit Systems | | | | | | | |Intel Corp. |Producer |Active | |( |( |( | |LSI Logic |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Mentor Graphics |User |Active |( |( |( |( | |Micron |Producer |Active | |( |( |( | |Technology | | | | | | | |NEC Electronics |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Corp. | | | | | | | |Nokia Siemens |Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |Networks | | | | | | | |Panasonic |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Samtec |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Siemens AG |Producer |Inactive|( | | | | |Signal Integrity|User |Inactive| | | | | |Software | | | | | | | |Sigrity |User |Inactive| | | | | |Silego |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |STMicroelectroni|Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |cs | | | | | | | |Synopsys |User |Inactive| | | | | |Teraspeed |General |Active | |( |( |( | |Consulting |Interest | | | | | | |Texas |Producer |Inactive| | | |( | |Instruments | | | | | | | |Toshiba |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Xilinx |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |ZTE |User |Inactive| | | | | |Zuken GmbH |User |Inactive|( | | | | Criteria for Member in good standing: • Must attend two consecutive meetings to establish voting membership • Membership dues current • Must not miss two consecutive Meetings Interest categories associated with GEIA ballot voting are: • Users - Members that utilize electronic equipment to provide services to an end user. • Producers - Members that supply electronic equipment. • General Interest - Members are neither producers nor users. This category includes, but is not limited to, Government, regulatory agencies (state and federal), researchers, other organizations and associations, and/or consumers.