Minutes, IBIS Quality Teleconference
September 11, 2002
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)

Barry Katz chaired the meeting.

- Roll Call
Adam Tambone Adam.Tambone@fairchildsemi.com
*Barry Katz bkatz@sisoft.com
Benjamin P Silva benjamin.p.silva@intel.com
Bob Ross bob_ross@mentor.org
*Eckhard Lenski Eckhard.Lenski@icn.siemens.de
Eric Brock ebrock@sisoft.com
*Gregory R Edlund gedlund@us.ibm.com
Hazem Hegazy hazem_hegazy@mentorg.com
John Figueroa jfigueroa@apple.com
Katja Koller (Siemens)
Kevin Fisher kfisher@sisoft.com
Kim Helliwell kimgh@apple.com
Lynne Green lgreen@cadence.com
Mike Labonte milabont@cisco.com [mlabonte@hhnetwrk.com]
Peter LaFlamme plaflamm@amcc.com
*Robert Haller rhaller@sisoft.com
Roy Leventhal Roy_Leventhal@3com.com
Sherif Hammad sherif_hammad@mentorg.com
Todd Westerhoff twesterh@cisco.com
Tom Dagostino tom_dagostino@mentorg.com
*Kazuyoshi Shoji kshohji@hitachi-ul.co.jp
*Sadahiro Nonoyama nonoyama@hitachi-ul.co.jp

Everyone in attendance marked by  *

Interested, but have not yet attended:
      Ralf Bruening Zuken ralf.bruening@zuken.de

Kazuyoshi Shoji and Sadahiro Nonoyama were welcomed. Their IBIS interest
is as a creators and providers of quality models to internal and
external customers.

- Review of minutes for August 30
Road map for levels - are Levels cumulative - (probably)

- AR Review
AR: Bob Haller will put together a list of sections, so people
can volunteer for a section (documentation). COMPLETED
The following quality committee members have volunteered

Bob Haller - IV Curves, Clamp Curves
Greg Edlund - SPICE Correlation, Lab Correlation
Eckhard Lenski - Possible Errors that should be checked.

AR: Lynne Green will collect descriptions and update the checklist.
    THIS is AWAITING INPUTS

* Open: Parser Bug - consistency checking between I-V and V-t curves.

- Announcements
* EIA Call for Patent Disclosure
      No companies made a disclosure.
* IBIS Summit date (Tuesday, October 15th)
      First Summit announcement with Call for Papers has gone out.
      Barry will present Qualify checklist and road map. We have 5 weeks
(2 more meetings). Documentation details ironed out by Oct 8th.

- Opens for new items

AR Barry Katz, Needs to get folks to sign up for remaining documentation
items

* Parser bugs: BIRD 71 assigned in Open Forum "Enhancement, Low
Priority". Bob Ross wants Bob Haller to update the bug and explicitly
state the I-V combination rules and zero warning pass criteria for good
models.
     Greg Edlund's BIRD on standard loads has been assigned BIRD 74.
     Roy Leventhal's BIRD needs test case.

* Roadmap for levels
	Level 0: syntax parser checks, Model can be simulated.
	Level 1: Model Spec complete, visual checks, validate data sheet
information, pinlist is correct and complete, all IBIS values 			are
reasonable (i.e. Ccomp is correct order of magnitude)
	Level 2: SPICE correlation.  Golden Waveforms required in model.
	Level 3: Correlation to Bench/Lab. Golden Waveforms required .

Level 2 and level 3  - Comparison of IBIS data to known good data - per
the IBIS accuracy handbook.
Shoji raised the issue that on level 2 you can get good correlation to
bad Spice models. This may be the case, but model users gain confidence
of a model's correct and completeness with each increasing level of
quality. We should calculate and document a FOM (Figure Of Merit) for
level 2 and 3 (Ibis Accuracy Handbook). What is acceptable ? Discussion
regarding requiring a hard number (i.e. 98%) to achieve a certain level
of quality. What is acceptable, How does Purchasing review "stamp of
approval", without engineering reviewing data ?

- Plans for next meeting
     Continue October release planning.

- Schedule for next meeting
September 24, 2002
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 408-974-8478 or 800-249-5618
Meeting access: CONFERENCE SERVER 2, Conference ID: 4203

Meeting adjourned at 9 AM PST.