Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

03 December 2013

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

ROLL CALL

Cisco Systems:                      Tony Penaloza
Ericsson:                           Anders Ekholm
Green Streak Programs:              Lynne Green
Huawei Technologies:                Guan Tao
IBM:                                Bruce Archambeault
                                    Greg Edlund
IOMethodology:                      Lance Wang
Intel:                              Michael Mirmak
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:

- None

AR Review:

- Mike send parser contract draft 9 to Bob and Michael M.
  - Done

- Bob send parser contract draft 9 to SAE and Atul
  - Done

New items:

AR: Bob send parser contract draft 9 to SAE and Atul
  - No response yet.

Bob: We actually have enough money in our account now, about $14,000
  - Some of that was spent in China

Bob: We might consider the recent parser purchase by a small German company to cover 6.0.
  - It was made much more recently than the other purchasers
  - The payment really is covering the 6.0 parser.
  - This might require a custom contract.

Bob: The detailed ibischk checks are create by Atul
  - There are 18 new Reserved_Parameters
  - The 14 jitter and noise parameters are all very similar
  - These might come under one error code, with the parameter name given.
Mike: We could ask the open forum about this Friday
Bob: This could result in a lot of tests
  - Checking for each type of error times the number of parameters leads to a lot of regression tests
Mike: It might be better to have one code to cover multiple parameters
  - There might be a check for each Format

Mike showed IBIS 6.0 page 186
Bob: All of these are checked.
Mike: Notes 3 and 4 call for checks specific to certain parameters
  - Atul should put the requirements tables right in the code
Bob: List_Tip will require a lot of work to check
  - It has specific uniqueness requirements

Mike showed the ibischk message spreadsheet
- We noted that many checks are already parameterized by parameter name

Bob: We will have to try to format the spreadsheet nicely for the parser document tables
Mike: Printing the tables landscape might work
Bob: We should try to avoid that

Bob: The spreadsheet modified by Atul will be posted on the website
  - I usually check the regression tests line by line for each new parser rev

Meeting ended at 11:46 Eastern Time.