Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

01 Aug 2006

11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 1.877.384.0543 or 1.800.743.7560
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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 11 Jul 2006:

- Approved.

Announcements - EIA Call for Patent Disclosure:

- No company declared a patent.

AR Review:

- Mike prepare summit slides and send to list for review.
  - Done

Opens for new items:

Review of IQ presentation at IBIS Summit
- No objection to IQ designation changes.
- Level 0 feels like no quality..
- Where is IQ used today?
  - Book by Roy Leventhal and Lynne Green
  - Micron DDR2 models have old IQ headers in them.
    - Maybe a dozen files have IQ.
    - Considering IQ for flash and low-speed memories.
- We will draft a description of the new numbering system.

AR: Mike send Moshiul pointer to latest version of IQ spec
AR: Moshiul rework IQ spec to describe new level numbering scheme.

Discussion of convolution vs. timestep simulators
- Convolution simulators depend on linearity to avoid full
  circuit evaluation at each timestep.
- Is convolution accurate enough?
- Linearity should not be an issue - high speed buffers are linear.

Should the IBIS Model Suppliers web page designate use of IQ?
- IBIS Model page: http://www.eigroup.org/ibis/ibis%20table/models.htm
- We can ask at the next IBIS open forum (this Friday).
- Proposal: Add a note designating presence of IBIS files containing
  IQ checklist.
- Not a separate column in the web page, just a note within text.

Next meeting:

22 Aug 2006
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
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Meeting ended at 12:07 PM Eastern Time.