Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

22 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.

AR Review:

- Anders and Mike prepare a summit presentation on IQ status
  - Done

New items:

Review of IBIS Quality presentation at DAC IBIS summit meeting:
- Anders: Michael Mirmak asked if we could add statistical methods
  - Michael then presented on statistical methods
- Bob: The Mirmak presentation discussed FDM and ADM

Discussion of Opal AMI:
- Mike: Does the new Opal AMI proposal have any bearing on IBIS Quality?
- Anders: This is a best practice document
  - For example, external models could have conflicts
- Bob: This is probably not a topic for the IQ group
  - There is a question as to whether it is an IBIS document
- Mike: Agree
- Anders: This is not a standard, just best practices
  - If IBIS adopts it the name Opal would be dropped
- The Opal document has a section on correlation
  - It requires documentation of correlation

We looked at the 1DFSV correlation tool:
- Anders: Why does it have both time and freq domains?
- Mike: Maybe it assumes you give TD and it can do the FFT for you
- Anders: We could invite Antonio to one of our meetings
- Bob: Or maybe Alistair

We looked at an IEEE paper using the 1D FSV tool
- Bob: He uses the 85% rule
  - I don't get a good feeling about fair and poor grades
- Mike: We should have other correlation issues to look at
- Anders: For example DC offset
  - We could try sine waves and see what the tool does
- Bob: A report to IBIS on this tool might be interesting
  - Moshiul's data starts with a wrong bit

AR: Mike prepare demonstration of 1DFSV using Moshiul's test data

Next meeting will be July 06

Meeting ended at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.