Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

12 dec 2006

11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 1.877.384.0543 or 1.800.743.7560
Web access: http://meetingplace.cisco.com/join.asp?2100472

ROLL CALL
  Adam Tambone
  Barry Katz
  Benny Lazer
  Benjamin P Silva
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
  Brian Arsenault
* David Banas, Xilinx
* Eckhard Lenski
  Eric Brock
  Gregory R Edlund
  Hazem Hegazy
  John Figueroa
  John Angulo
  Katja Koller
  Kevin Fisher
* Kim Helliwell, LSI Logic
  Lance Wang
  Lynne Green
* Mike LaBonte, Cisco
* Moshiul Haque, Micron Technology
  Peter LaFlamme
  Radovan Vuletic, Qimonda
  Robert Haller
* Roy Leventhal, Leventhal Design & Communications
  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.

AR Review:

- Moshiul combine sections 2.1 and 2.2, fully describe ibischk requirements
  - Done, posted to IQ website

New items:

- Request from Lynne Green at IBIS Open Forum call for "the latest" IQ
  checklist to be posted.
  - Posted checklist file is not the complete kit.

AR: Mike post a more complete checklist kit on the website

- Designation of official Task Group chairman
  - Mike LaBonte is currently listed as "acting chair" of this Task Group.
    He proposed that we choose an offical chairman..
  - No other candidates "stepped forward".
  - We voted on confirmation of Mike LaBonte as chairman by yays and nays.
    There were some yays, no nays.
  - Mike LaBonte becomes offical chaor of the Task Group.

AR: Mike ask the IBIS Secretary to delete "acting" before his name as chairman.

- Should we have an IQ Presentation at the DesignCon 2007 IBIS Summit?
  - Mike LaBonte, David Banas, Kim Heliwell, Bob Ross plan to attend.
  - Kim will present an overview of IQ.
    - Primarily about spec changes, but also mention group activities
      and website features.
  - Summit is Thursday 1 Feb 2007.
  - David and Roy will consider a presentation on correlation.
    - David has a process correlation system mapped out.
    - Roy has ideas about eye closure.
    - David would present.

AR: Bob will add Kim and David to the summit agenda.
AR: Roy and David collaborate on presentation for IBIS summit

Continued review of the IQ spec:

- Some discussion on how strongly to recommend.
- We should recommend that IBISCHK output be inserted as comments into
  IBIS files. It would help if IBISCHK prefixed each line printed with
  a pipe "|" character, and limit line lengths. Would also document IBISCHK
  version used. Reason is to provide guidance to user, and could include
  explanations of why warnings are OK.
- Eliminate passive "It is recommended ...". The IBIS Open Forum is making
  the recommendation. Purpose section should identify the group.
- Should vs. Shall? Although we would at times like to use more forceful
  language, we need to make it easier for IC vendors to adopt the IQ spec.

AR: Mike will post an updated version of the IQ spec.

- Bob noted that we were going to discuss the guidelines for when to use
  the "X" designator, but this will have to be discussed next meeting.

Next meeting:

19 Dec 2006
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Web access: http://meetingplace.cisco.com/join.asp?2102026

Meeting ended at 12:07 PM Eastern Time.