Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

14 Mar 2006

11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 1.877.384.0543 or 1.800.743.7560
Meeting access: Meeting ID: 90437837

ROLL CALL
Adam Tambone
Barry Katz
Benny Lazer
Benjamin P Silva
*Bob Ross
Brian Arsenault
*Eckhard Lenski
Eric Brock
Gregory R Edlund
Hazem Hegazy
John Figueroa
John Angulo
Katja Koller
Kevin Fisher
*Kim Helliwell
Lance Wang
Lynne Green
*Mike LaBonte
Moshiul Haque
Peter LaFlamme
Robert Haller
Roy Leventhal
Sherif Hammad
Todd Westerhoff
Tom Dagostino
Kazuyoshi Shoji
Sadahiro Nonoyama

Everyone in attendance marked by  *

NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.

-----------------------MINUTES ---------------------------
Mike LaBonte conducted the meeting.

- Review of minutes for 14 Feb 2006

Minutes approved.

- Announcements - EIA Call for Patent Disclosure: 

No company declared a patent.

- AR Review

AR: Mike update Jan 10 2006 minutes file
done

- Opens for new items

There have been many error messages from the freelists
server lately for both ibis-quality and ibis-macro.
We could use eda.org if freelists doesn't work out.

AR: Mike resolve mail list problems

Mike asked for s2ibis test case files that may be used by NCSU.
o Probably have to be a customer to get them.
o Maybe under NDA, but free distribution would not be allowed.
o Bob Ross has a simple buffer using level 3 transistors.
o Could ask silist.
o Micron has downloadable SPICE models.
  o Could ship the top netlist file and reference the model.
  o Include version level data.
o Simple test cases are best.
o s2ibis3 should be open source
  o sourceforge.net might host the code

Mike asked if the group should meet every 2 weeks instead of once a month.
This brought on discussion of if we should meet LESS often, not more.
We decided to meet again in 2 weeks.

Eckhard reported that Siemens will soon have a web page on how to
create better IBIS models.

- Review of proposed parser bug report for IQ 2.2 check

It needs to be specific about which [IBIS ver] would get this check.
It should be checked for all [IBIS ver] but at least 2.1 and up if
there are technical limitations making 1.x checks difficult.

AR: Mike will revise bug report

Mike asked if someone could test the testcase to insure that it
does demonstrate the "bug".

AR: Kim will test the testcase

Next meeting:

Mar 28 2006
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 1.877.384.0543 or 1.800.743.7560
Meeting access: Meeting ID: 90437837

Meeting ended at 12:10 PM Eastern Time.