EIA IBIS Open Forum Minutes Meeting Date: November 30, 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 Agilent Ian Dodd*, Radek Biernacki, Saliou Dieye, Riccardo Giacometti, Quanli Li, Mike Resso, Chengming Ren, Dong Wei, Tim Wu, Xindong Xue, Nianmin Zhang, Jianping Zhu, Takahiro Sato AMD Nam Nguyen*, Tadashi Arai Ansoft Corporation Haiqiang Ding, Baolong Li, Ying Liu Applied Simulation Technology (Fred Balistreri) Apple Computer (Bill Cornelius) Cadence Design Systems [Lance Wang], C. Kumar*, Hemant Shah*, Patrick dos Santos, Ambrish Varma*, Shangli Wu, Lanbing Chen, Jianwei Hu, Jacob Lai, Yubao Meng, Jian Peng, Ke (Coco) Xu, Liu Zheng, Norikazu Takada, Yukio Masuko, Terry Jernberg*, Ray Komow* 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, Bill (Qinghua) Chen Ericsson Anders Ekholm*, Ole Segtum, Peng Fu Freescale Jon Burnett Green Streak Programs Lynne Green Hitachi ULSI Systems Kazuyoshi Shoji, Shinmei Hirano IBM Michael Sorna, Adge Hawes, Kevin Kramer*, Wei Wang Intel Corporation Michael Mirmak*, [Arpad Muranyi], Lili Deng, Haifeng (Bill) Gong, Tao Hu, Karen Kang, Fanghui Li, Maoxin Yin, James Zhou IO Methodology Lance Wang*, Esther Gao, Nancy Peng, Benny Yan, Xinjun Zhang, Wei Zhu LSI Frank Gasparik*, Kim Helliwell*, Dinh Tran, Praveen Soora, Brian Burdick* Mentor Graphics John Angulo*, Arpad Muranyi*, [Ian Dodd], Eric Rongere, Stephane Rousseau, Bill Hargin, Patrick Carrier, Vivian Pan, Tao Wang, Lifu You, Kenji Kushima, Masahiro Nakajima Micron Technology Randy Wolff, Pavani Jella Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH[1] Eckhard Lenski*, Flavio Maggioni, Roberto Preatoni, Umberto Gatti, Massimo Ceppi Panasonic Atsuji Ito Samtec (Corey Kimble) Signal Integrity Software Barry Katz, Douglas Burns, Mike Steinberger, Walter Katz*, Todd Westerhoff* Sigrity Sam Chitwood, Sandy Dung, Raymond Chen*, Xianfeng Li, Tao (Helen) Xu STMicroelectronics (Anil Kalra), Antonio Girardi, Giacomo Bernardi, Roberto Izzi, Akhilesh Chandra, Davide Tonietto*, Essaid Bensoudane* Synopsys Ted Mido, Xuefeng Chen, Changlei Zhang Teraspeed Consulting Group Bob Ross*, Tom Dagostino Texas Instruments Otis Gorley, Richard Ward, Bonnie Baker Toshiba Yoshihiro Hamaji, Yasumasa Kondo, Atshshi Osaki Nonyasu Yoshikawa, Toshihiro Tsajimura Xilinx Bruce Bandeli, David Banas* ZTE Songrui Chen, Xianhui Hu, Wei Jia, Dongfeng Sun Changjun Wang, Ying Xiong, Shenglong Yang Yanfeng Yu, Xiaojun Zhou, Shunlin Zhu Zuken Michael Schaeder, Ralf Bruening, John Berrie, Shigeru Hayashi, Hirohiko Matsuwawa OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN 2007 74ze Engineering Linc Jepson AcconSys David Lan, Suny Li, Jianfeng Tan, Jiangtao Wu, Frank Xiao Alcatel Shanghai Bell Wei Li, Lifan Sun Altera Hui Liu, Zhe Lin, Ravindra Gali, Salman Jiva Apache Design Solutions (Ji Zheng) Applied Telisis, Inc. (ATI) Vladimar Mandrusov ATE Service Corporation Yutaka Honda Canon Seiji Hayashi, Shoji Matsumoto, Tatsuo Nishino, Sakuragi Takamasa, Haruka Watanabe, Nobuaki Yamashita Cavium Networks Johann Nittmann CEC Huada Electronic Design Weiwei Liu China Integrated Circuit Jingcheng Luo ChipX Jay Hidy, Oren Dvir Cybernet Systems [Kazuhiki Kusunoki], Masahito Kobayashi, Junko Kuriyama Datang Mobile Fanjie Meng, Hongying Li, Hongwei Wang EDN China Frank Yao EE Times Japan Norihiro Satsukawa EFM Ekkehard Miersch EMC Technology Michael Liu, Feng Lu, Changzheng Yang Enterasys Robert Haller Extreme Networks Kevin Ko Force10 Networks Robert Badal Free Electron Software Al Davis Fujitsu Limited Kouichiro Asoh, Tetsuya Inoue, Toshiro Sato, Fujimori Shogo, Wasaki Tosaka GEIA (Chris Denham) Gnovo Technologies Harris Ma Hangzhou H3C Technologies Chunbao Yan Hewlett Packard Shafiq Rahman Huawei 3Com Junjun Cui, Zhenyu Liu, Jun Mao, Bao Wang, Kai Xie, Haitao Zhang Huawei Technologies ChunXing Huang, Bob He, Tao Guan, Peng Hu, Xiangzhong Jiang, Meidan Liu, Haiyan Yu IMECAS Yunfeng Wang IVIS Co. Hiroyuki Mashima Infineon Christian Sporrer Japan Aviation Electronics Hiroaki Ikeda Industries JEITA Atsushi Ishikawa Juniper Networks Raul Lozano Kawasaki Microlelectronics Hiroyuki Sato, Takashi Kawahara Leventhal Design Roy Leventhal LHWT Microelectronics Jiahui Wang Lynguent [Andrew Levy] Motorola Hong Chen, Haiying Jiang, Daniel Tang National Institute of Applied Etienne Sicard Science (INSA) National Instruments Lee Maixman Netlogic Eric Hsu NEC Electronics Corporation Takeshi Watanabe, Hock Seow, Huy Tran, Itsuki Yamada NESA Edward Sayre Northrop Grumman Dusan Radosevic Nortel Networks Jingxin Bian, Feng Shi Nuova Systems Zhiping Yang, Lin Shen NVIDIA Corporation Jing (Jane) Zhang 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 Sharp Tetsuo Iwaki Shizu Technology Zuofu Qi Siemens AG [1] [Eckhard Lenski], Manfred Maurer Sony Corporation Toshiro Honda, Keisuke Matsunami Shu Zi Tai He Chunyu Zhao Sun Microelectronics Leon Yang Tiburon Design Automation Patrick O’Halloran Via Technologies Jimmy Hsu White Electronics Designs John Perez Xyratex Paul Levin, Joseph Chan Zuken Support and Service Seikou Go, Tomotaka Unose 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 Meeting ID December 21, 2007 1-866-432-9903 121978860 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, press 1 to attend the meeting, then follow the prompts to enter the meeting ID. For new, local international dial-in numbers, please reference the bridge numbers provided by Cisco Systems at the following link: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/conferencing/index.html NOTE: "AR" = Action Required. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTIONS AND MEETING QUORUM Essaid Bensoudane and Davide Tonietto from STMicroelectronics introduced themselves. They develop SerDes models and are interested in the BIRD104 discussion. 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 the organization stands at 30 paid members, with IBM having rejoined IBIS. The exact budget status is still unclear, due to pending updates from the GEIA, but IBIS is expected to have between $620 and $2000 extra revenue for the year (see below). REVIEW OF MINUTES AND ARS Michael Mirmak called for comment regarding the minutes of the November 2, 2007 IBIS Open Forum teleconference. The minutes were approved without changes. WEB PAGE UPDATES Syed Huq reported that he updated the roster to add IBM. He also noted that the virtual membership poster has been updated to remove older logos. Bob Ross invited IBM to submit a logo. Arpad Muranyi requested that the web pages be reorganized to make finding key documents easier (for example, he noted that the Cookbook is filed in a location that is non-intuitive). Syed stated that he will update the members on the web page designs during the next Summit meeting. MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION Bob Ross reported that everything is running normally. MODEL LIBRARY UPDATE Lance Wang reported that library enhancements were posted at the end of October, featuring updated links and graphics. PRESS UPDATE Bob Ross reported no major IBIS-related press items. MISCELLANY/ANNOUNCEMENTS Michael Mirmak reminded the attendees that the IBIS Open Forum continues to look for online meeting and collaboration technology options for future teleconferences. He noted Syed Huq had demonstrated Cisco’s MeetingPlace software, which features local telephone numbers in a variety of cities worldwide where IBIS member companies are located. OPENS FOR NEW ISSUES Bob Ross requested that the budget be discussed. INTERNATIONAL/EXTERNAL PROGRESS No major DASC issues to report. The DASC website may be found at: http://www.dasc.org/ Syed Huq reported that encryption study group has been assigned a number of documents by the VSI Alliance. These are visible on-line, through the study group’s e-mail reflector. The IEEE DASC Study Group on Encryption we site is found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/ip-encrypt/hm/ IEC APPROVAL ACTIVITIES No update. SUMMITS - Design Con Planning DesignCon 2008 will be held February 4-7, 2008 at the Santa Clara convention center. The IBIS Summit is now scheduled for Thursday, February 7, 2008. Syed Huq is the main contact for the event. Michael Mirmak noted that all contracts with IEC for display booth space, a conference room and co-sponsorship have been completed. Bob Ross noted that at least five presentations have been added to the program, not including Syed Huq’s web page update. A conference schedule has been published at the following link: http://www.designcon.com/2008/conference/schedule.html A call for papers will be issued shortly. Cisco is officially sponsoring this summit, though other sponsors are encouraged. Michael added that the traditional Magnolia and Cypress rooms will not be available on February 7, due to a change in contract between the hotel and the IEC, without an additional fee. The IEC DesignCon organizers have offered to provide a free room inside the Convention Center on that day for the IBIS Summit. Hotel conference rooms can be obtained, but only on other days that week. After a brief discussion, the team agreed that the Summit will stay on Thursday, but will move inside the Convention Center. - DATE Planning The DATE conference will be in Munich, Germany March 10-14, 2008. The Summit is scheduled for Thursday, March 13. Bob mentioned that organizing a meeting room and other logistics are still in progress. Eckhard Lenski noted that the meeting will be shorter than in previous years, to avoid conflicting with a PCB technology seminar. - Other Summits Bob Ross noted that discussions continue regarding holding a summit in Taiwan, including possible dates for a summit in Taipei. The event is likely to take place in Q3 or Q4, with support from Intel and Zuken. Bob is contacting some EDA vendors regarding their interest and support. Sponsorship opportunities for the DesignCon IBIS summit 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 addressed, over the past two meetings, the 21 suggestions provided by JEITA. The contributions and attendance of Kazuyoshi Shoji of Hitachi were specifically appreciated. The group continues to meet every Tuesday at 11:00 AM US Eastern Time. Current discussion topics include static and dynamic overshoot and receiver thresholds. The Quality Task Group checklist and other documentation can be found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/ibis/quality_wip/ IBIS MODEL REVIEW TASK GROUP Bob Ross reported that he contributed to the analysis of one IBIS model since the last meeting. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MODELING TASK GROUP Arpad Muranyi reported that the group has been discussing differential pin updates and related differential improvements to the IBIS specification. The next meeting will take place December 4 (combined meeting with the Interconnect Ad Hoc Task Group), with meetings to follow weekly. The next scheduled discussion of differential pin topics is on December 18. Suggestions are welcome then or before the 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 had a meeting this week on November 28. They have completed work on the Touchstone 2.0 draft document and will provide it for consideration by the Open Forum before the next meeting. Task group material can be found at: http://www.eda.org/ibis/adhoc/interconnect/ NEW ISSUES Bob Ross raised two budget-related issues. First, excess funds will likely be left unspent at the end of the year without prompt action. Under GEIA rules, these funds – between $620 and $2000 -- will not be carried over into next year’s budget. To prevent the money being lost, Bob suggested these funds could be spend on pre-payment of DesignCon IBIS Summit meals, as has been done in previous years. Alternately, parser work can be pre- paid for IBISCHK5 or ICMCHK1. In previous years, spending to purchase an Open Forum LCD projector for summits has also been proposed. Bob requested that the IBIS board be authorized to spend these funds on one or more of the areas suggested. No objections were raised and several statements of support were made. Second, the budget for next year may not cover an apparent 20% increase in the GEIA funds allocation. This allocation covers expenses, such as legal services and standardization certification, incurred by IBIS as part of an EIA sector. If this increase is accurately reflected in the documents provided by the GEIA, the membership level and dues assumptions (including a possible dues increase) will have to be reviewed. To address this, Bob requested that, during the next IBIS Open Forum meeting, the membership consider and vote upon the dues for next year. The dues may need to increase to around $900 per organization per year to cover costs. Michael Mirmak will confirm the budget targets with the GEIA within the next few days. BIRD97.2: GATE MODULATION EFFECT Arpad Muranyi reported that there have been no changes to the BIRD in recent weeks. He added that BIRD 98.3 was written with the expectation that BIRD97.2 would be voted down. Since BIRD98.3 was approved at the last meeting and covers the same technical issues, the recommendation was to vote down BIRD97.2. A motion was made to vote on BIRD97.2 for inclusion in the next version of the IBIS specification. The vote failed with the following vote tally: Agilent - abstain AMD - no Cadence - no Cisco - no Ericsson - no Freescale (e-mail) - yes IBM - no Intel - no I/O Methodology - no LSI - no Mentor Graphics - no Micron (e-mail) - no Nokia-Siemens Networks - no Signal Integrity Software - no Sigrity - no STMicroelectronics - no Teraspeed - no Xilinx - abstain ZTE - abstain* * two conflicting e-mail votes were received from ZTE, neither from the official listed representatives on the IBIS roster BIRD104.1: ALGORITHMIC MODELING API (AMI) SUPPORT IN IBIS Ambrish Varma noted that only one change had been made in the BIRD since the last meeting: clarification of ANSI ‘C’ as the C programming language as published in ISO/IEC 9899-1999. Agilent - yes AMD - yes Cadence - yes Cisco - abstain Ericsson - yes Freescale (e-mail) - yes IBM - yes Intel - yes I/O Methodology - yes LSI - yes Mentor Graphics - yes Micron (e-mail) - yes Nokia-Siemens Networks - abstain Signal Integrity Software - yes Sigrity - yes STMicroelectronics - yes Teraspeed - yes Xilinx - yes ZTE - abstain* * two conflicting e-mail votes were received from ZTE, neither from the official listed representatives on the IBIS roster Ambrish Varma of Cadence, after the voting was completed, noted the contributions of Michael Mirmak and Bob Ross as reviewers of the final BIRD. He also recognized the support of Texas Instruments in writing the text and testing the BIRD concepts. Kevin Kramer of IBM observed that IBM has developed a number of models under the standard. While SerDes modeling had previously been performed using a proprietary tool and representation, customer calls for greater interoperability made a standard method highly desirable. IBM will be using the BIRD API method for future modeling efforts. IBISCHK4 BUG STATUS No new BUGs have been filed. ICMCHK1 BUG STATUS Michael Mirmak reported that there is one BUG, but it will not be fixed until the next version of the parser. The next release of the parser will come out once IIRD9 is closed. NEW TECHNICAL ISSUES Arpad Muranyi raised the issue of specification syntax “cleanliness” discussed during previous Open Forum meetings. He noted that the Advanced Technology Modeling task group has been discussing various options for improved treatment of differential buffers. However, progress in these discussions is often hampered by conflicts between new proposed keywords and existing keywords, or between older assumptions and flexibility added by new syntax. He requested feedback from the participants, noting that he recognized the tension between elegant specification architecture and the urgency to find solutions to current problems. Todd Westerhoff suggested that older keywords might simply be deprecated in a new version of the specification. Older features would continue to be available in the older versions. Bob Ross disagreed, proposing that backward compatibility meant that older keywords should be available even in newer specification versions. In response, Todd and Michael Mirmak suggested that newer specification versions might simply provide alternate paths for existing features but in a cleaner architecture. So long as the new keywords could support the same kind of designs as older structures, backward compatibility is maintained with minimal additional development costs and a clean specification for future expansion. Bob and Arpad both agreed that this might be possible, but Bob cautioned that often the “devil is in the details” in trying to duplicate older features in newer structures. The discussion will be continued in the next Open Forum, as well as in various task group meetings. NEXT MEETING The next IBIS Open Forum teleconference will be held December 21, 2007 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM US Pacific Time. Touchstone 2.0 will be introduced for Open Forum consideration. A vote on next year’s membership dues is scheduled. ======================================================================== 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|Septembe|October|Novembe|Novembe| | |Category |s Ballot|r 21, |12, |r 2, |r 30, | | | |Voting |2007 |2007 |2007 |2007 | | | |Status | | | | | |Advanced Micro |Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |Devices | | | | | | | |Agilent |User |Inactive| | | |( | |Technologies | | | | | | | |Ansoft |User |Inactive| | | | | |Apple Computer |User |Inactive| | | | | |Applied |User |Inactive| | | | | |Simulation | | | | | | | |Technology | | | | | | | |Cadence Design |User |Active | |( |( |( | |Systems | | | | | | | |Cisco Systems |User |Active |( |( |( |( | |Ericsson |Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |Freescale |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Green Streak |General |Inactive| | | | | |Programs |Interest | | | | | | |Hitachi ULSI |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Systems | | | | | | | |IBM |Producer |Inactive| | | |( | |Intel Corp. |Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |IO Methodology |User |Inactive| |( | |( | |LSI |Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |Mentor Graphics |User |Active | |( |( |( | |Micron |Producer |Active |( |( |( | | |Technology | | | | | | | |Nokia Siemens |Producer |Inactive|( | | |( | |Networks | | | | | | | |Panasonic |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Samtec |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Signal Integrity|User |Active | |( |( |( | |Software | | | | | | | |Sigrity |User |Inactive| | | |( | |STMicroelectroni|Producer |Active | |( |( |( | |cs | | | | | | | |Synopsys |User |Inactive| | | | | |Teraspeed |General |Active |( |( |( |( | |Consulting |Interest | | | | | | |Texas |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Instruments | | | | | | | |Toshiba |Producer |Inactive| | | | | |Xilinx |Producer |Active |( |( |( |( | |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.