Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

30 October 2012

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

ROLL CALL

Altera				    David Banas
Cisco Systems:                      Tony Penaloza
Ericsson:                           Anders Ekholm
Green Streak Programs:              Lynne Green
Huawei Technologies:                Guan Tao
IBM:                                Bruce Archambeault
                                    Greg Edlund
Intel                               Michael Mirmak
IOMethodology:                    * Lance Wang
Mentor Graphics:                    John Angulo
Micron Technology:                  Moshiul Haque,
                                    Randy Wolff
Nokia Siemens Networks:             Eckhard Lenski
QLogic Corp.:                       James Zhou
Signal Consulting Group:            Tim Coyle
Signal Integrity Software         * Mike LaBonte
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:

- Mike: Will fix minutes

AR Review:

- Lance check on China patent status for correlation methods
  - No progress
  - Pending in U.S.
  - Approved in China, but a fee payment remains to obtain certificate
  - Need to decide whether to give up the patent

New items:

Mike: Should the IOMeth patent be declared in all IBIS meetings?
- Lance: It is an implementation patent, should not apply
  - The patent is co-owned
- Bob: Another question is whether trademarks matter here

Mike showed the Jan 2008 summit presentation by Lance:
- Lance: The patent is not about the algorithms shown here
  - It is about a specific implementation
  - Slide 9 shows an implementation close to the patent
  - It is closer to a copyright

Mike showed a presentation to be given by Lance in Asia:
- This has an overview of different correlation proposals
- Bob discussed the Huawei method shown on slide 10
  - They have several FOMs
  - They have an internal tool
- Lance: Nokia and ZTE have internal validation processes
  - Huawei may still have one

Review of group meeting schedule:

- Nov 13 and 20 conflict with summits and travel
- Our next meeting will be Nov 27

Next meetings:
- The next two meetings will be Nov 27 and Dec 13

- Meeting ended at 11:57 ET