Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

19 Sep 2007

11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)

ROLL CALL
  Adam Tambone
  Barry Katz, SiSoft
  Benny Lazer
  Benjamin P Silva
  Bob Cox, Micron
  Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
  Brian Arsenault
* David Banas, Xilinx
  Eckhard Lenski, Siemens
  Eric Brock
  Gregory R Edlund
  Hazem Hegazy
  John Figueroa
  John Angulo, Mentor Graphics
  Katja Koller, Siemens
  Kevin Fisher
* Kim Helliwell, LSI Logic
  Lance Wang, IOMethodology
  Lynne Green
* Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems
  Mike Mayer, SiSoft
  Moshiul Haque, Micron Technology
  Peter LaFlamme
  Radovan Vuletic, Qimonda
  Robert Haller, Enterasys
* Roy Leventhal, Leventhal Design & Communications
  Sherif Hammad, Mentor Graphics
  Todd Westerhoff, SiSoft
  Tom Dagostino, Teraspeed Consulting Group
  Kazuyoshi Shoji, Hitachi
  Sadahiro Nonoyama

Everyone in attendance marked by *

NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.

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

Call for patent disclosure:

- No one declared a patent.
- We wondered what the purpose of this was.
  - Kim believed it stemmed from a Rambus legal case.

AR Review:

AR: Mike remove duplicate space from 5.2.22
- Done

AR: Mike make changes to 5.2.5
- Done

AR: Mike make changes to 5.2.6
- Done

AR: Mike find out if ibischk catches less than 4 hysteresis params
- Done
  "WARNING - All  Hystereis Thresholds should be specified for Model Spec
   defined on line 10328"

AR: Mike update and release 1.1x document
- Done

New items:

- Roy is uncertain if he will be able to continue ibis-quality participation
  due to work commitments.

- The JEITA EDA working group sent their review of the IQ specification
  - Roy: We should review it only as far as we have reviewed ourselves.
    - We have covered only 10 of the 20 items in the JEITA review
  - We will discuss this at the next meeting

- JEITA presentation about IBIS Quality at the Tokyo IBIS summit
  - We looked this over page by page:
    - It begins by attempting to define IBIS quality
    - David: This is really about accuracy
    - Roy: There are other definitions for quality:
      - "fit for use"
      - feature set
  - David:
    - This paper is taking a narrow view of quality
    - Attempts to standardized IBIS vs. SPICE test fixtures
  - Mike: We could use these fixtures in IQ section 6

- David has met some of hte JEITA people, and will serve as our contact person

Continued review of the IQ specification:

5.2.2   {LEVEL 3}  [Model] Vinl and Vinh reasonable
- Wording of the new addition is counter-intuitive

AR: Roy reword 5.2.2 for clarity

Kim expressed concern over the time we spend on repeated review of the
same material.

Next meeting:

25 Sep 2007
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 1.877.384.0543 or 1.800.743.7560
Passcode: 90437837

Meeting ended at 12:01 PM Eastern Time.