Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

01 June 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.

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Mike LaBonte conducted the meeting.

Call for opens and IBIS related patent disclosures:

- No one declared a patent.

- Bob: We should discuss our plans for DAC presentations

- Mike: Reminder that we decided to meet every two weeks going forward
  - Bob: The next meeting would run into the DAC summit
  - We decided the next meeting would be in 3 weeks

AR Review:

- Mike ask David Banas if he might be able to join us
  - David is unable to join us currently

- Bob send Antonio Orlandi email address to Mike
  - Done

- Mike put Moshiul's sample data into the work archive
  - Done, but no announcement yet
  - Both XLSX and XLS files were uploaded

- Bob ask Bruce Archambeault to present on FSV at the DAC summit
  - He was not there

New items:

DAC IBIS summit planning:
- Will be attending: Anders, Bob
- Bob: Will we have a presentation?
- Mike: Has IEEE FSV ever been presented?
- Bob: Bruce would have to present that
- Anders can present:
  - Title: Correlation Update from the IBIS Quality Group
  - Up to 30 minutes, preferably shorter

AR: Anders and Mike prepare a summit presentation on IQ status

Mike showed Moshiul's sample data:
- Bob: What does the device output actually look like?
- Mike: Assume the patterns were different
- Moshiul: This is a SPICE initialization problem
  - The device would never have that voltage
  - Have not checked it
- Bob: Why would this be used for correlation?
- Mike: Could it have started in the disabled state?
- Moshiul: It could be
- Anders: Which node is this?
- Moshiul: The Rx pad

We looked at IEEE 1597.2
- Section 7.2.1 Step 1 begins with reducing the data set
- Bob: You might arguably take out the first cycle too
- Mike: Real systems are already warmed up before switching begins
- Next week we can begin at 7.2.3
- Anders: I could try writing this in Perl

Next meeting will be June 22

Meeting ended at 12:04 PM Eastern Time.