Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

23 November 2010

11:00-12:00 EST (08:00-09:00 PST)

ROLL CALL

Cisco Systems:                  Mike LaBonte*
Ericsson:                       Anders Ekholm*
Green Streak Programs:          Lynne Green
Huawei Technologies:            Guan Tao
IBM:                            Bruce Archambeault
IOMethodology:                  Lance Wang*
Mentor Graphics:                John Angulo
Micron Technology:              Moshiul Haque*, Randy Wolff
Nokia Siemens Networks:         Eckhard Lenski*
Signal Consulting Group:        Tim Coyle
Teraspeed Consulting Group:     Bob Ross*
Texas Instruments:              Pavani Jella

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:

- Mike reformat minutes template
  - Done.
  - Mike showed the new format.

New items:

Mike: Should we have a PDF of the checklist?
- Bob: The checklist uses formulas, so that wouldn't work
- Mike: We should have a new instructional presentation

Mike showed the IQ1 checklist instructions
- It is from 2004, out of date
- Moshiul: Randy presented an updated one this year
- Mike showed the updated IQ checklist presentation from Micron
- Mike showed the IQ checklist rev 2 spreadsheet
- Anders: The |IQ column is missing from the spreadsheet
  - This is handy for direct cut and paste into IBIS files

AR: Moshiul update IQ checklist to add |IQ column

Bob reported on the recent summit meetings:
- Lance had a presentation on point reduction
- In Japan there was a presentation on quality
  - JEITA quality working group
  - Presentation about test loads
  - There is a form for submitting models to the JEITA website
  - It is like a crowd-sourcing effort
- A blogger wrote about the summit in Japanese
- Mike: JEITA gave us feedback some time ago
  - They suggested less stringent requirements in some cases

Moshiul: Can we promote the IQ checklist to the IBIS home page?
- Mike: That would have to be proposed at the open forum meeting
- Bob: That would be good

Mike showed the External Test Data and Test Load BIRD:
- Anders: Probe points are names of points in the circuit
- Mike: This should be coordinated with Arpad's BIRD 125
  - This may come up in the interconnect meetings
- Bob: That group is loaded down with 4 topics
- Bob: Arpad's BIRD has alpha characters after = in "DiePort = node"
  - This is inconsistent with IBIS practice
- Anders: We need to specify sources for test inputs

AR: Mike post updated External Test Data and Test Load BIRD

Next meetings:
- Next meetings Nov 30 and Dec 7

Nov 30 agenda:
- New External Test Data and Test Load BIRD draft

Meeting ended at 12:11 Eastern Time.