Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

04 May 2010

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

ROLL CALL
  Adam Tambone
* Anders Ekholm, Ericsson
  Barry Katz, SiSoft
  Benny Lazer
  Benjamin P Silva
  Bob Cox, Micron
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
  Brian Arsenault
  David Banas, Xilinx
  Eckhard Lenski, Nokia Siemens Networks
  Eric Brock
  Guan Tao, Huawei Technologies
  Gregory R Edlund
  Hazem Hegazy
  Huang Chunxing, Huawei Technologies
  John Figueroa
  John Angulo, Mentor Graphics
  Katja Koller, Nokia Siemens Networks
  Kevin Fisher
  Kim Helliwell, LSI Logic
* Lance Wang, IOMethodology
  Lijun, Huawei
  Lynne Green, Green Streak Programs
* Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems
  Mike Mayer, SiSoft
  Moshiul Haque, Micron Technology
  Muniswarareddy Vorugu, ARM Ltd
  Pavani Jella, TI
  Peter LaFlamme
  Randy Wolff, Micron Technology
  Radovan Vuletic, Qimonda
  Robert Haller, Enterasys
  Roy Leventhal, Leventhal Design & Communications
  Sherif Hammad, Mentor Graphics
  Tim Coyle, Signal Consulting Group
  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 opens and IBIS related patent disclosures:

- No one declared a patent.

- Anders: European IBIS summit next week
  - We will have no IQ meeting May 11

AR Review:

- Mike ask Antonio Orlandi to join us
  - Email sent, no reply yet.

- Moshiul find reference and test data sets for some example model
  - No report.

New items:

Mike: We might want to reduce meeting frequency to every 2 weeks
  - Contributions are coming in slowly
- Bob: That would be good
  - IBIS activities are currently very time consuming

Bob: Manfred Mauer at Siemens will be at SPI
- He is active in IBIS
- The Siemens IBIS web page seems to still be active
- Manfred asked what should go into a standardized IBIS quality report
- Mike: I have concerns about being involved in this
  - These reports are differentiators for companies
- Lance: This group is important
  - We should focus on methods for validation
- Mike: Meaning correlation?
- Lance: Yes

AR: Mike ask David Banas if he might be able to join us

Mike: Should we pursue more IBISCHK bug reports from the IQ checks?
- Bob: We have an ongoing IBISCHK bug-fix project
  - This may complicate that
  - We have limited money
  - Easy checks are OK
  - Checking the work takes time too
  - 9 bugs would be fixed
    - One on [Test Load] scoping would be a difficult change
- Mike: [Test Load] may be important to our group
  - We have to be sure fixtures for golden waveforms are flexible enough
- Bob: Greg Edlund had promoted it

Mike: Would golden waveforms be worth pursuing?
- Anders: Yes
  - It will have to be in external files
- Mike: Should we propose [External Test Load] and [External Test Data]?
- Anders: We should wait for IBIS Interconnect SPICE
- Mike: Should we take up the IIS effort?
- Bob: It was mostly held up by dangling references
  - Walter did an excellent job
  - There are some decisions to made about S-params too
- Anders: We should look at IIS

AR: Mike email IIS link to IQ list
AR: Mike ask Walter about IIS readiness

Next meeting will be May 18

Meeting ended at 12:01 PM Eastern Time.