Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

20 May 2014

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

ROLL CALL

Ericsson:                           Anders Ekholm
Intel:                              Michael Mirmak
Signal Integrity Software         * Mike LaBonte
Teraspeed Consulting Group:       * Bob Ross

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 completed spreadsheet to Bob for review.
  - Spreadsheet still not ready yet.


Parser Development:

- Bob: A number of questions are being raised by the developer.
  - The specification has some holes.
  - There is a problem with error 5202.
    - We did not specify that a parameter file extension could be empty.
    - That became error 5202 in IBISCHK6.
- Mike: That should be eliminated before release.
- Bob: We probably could have specified a fixed file extension.
- Mike: Can it be .ami?
- Bob: It can be.

- Bob: Also it is an error for Converter_parameters to have a space in the parameter syntax.
  - The spec does not address this, Atul wants the restriction.
- Mike: This is only for the name=value format?
- Bob: Yes.

- Bob: I asked Atul to work on some memory leak problems.

- Bob: We do not check Vinh < Vinl.
  - We also have some errors that trigger other errors.

- Bob: When checking a external parameter file, Format List causes a crash.
  - Also there is no default for Dirac and Gaussian, they have no concept of a single value.
- Mike: The spec allows them to be used for external parameters?
- Bob: It does not explicitly disallow it.

- Bob: String parameters are brought into the parser with double quotes in place.
- Mike: Programmers will have to be aware of that.

AR: Bob send IBISCHK 6.0.3 to Mike for testing


IBIS Quality presentation for DAC summit:

- Bob showed a presentation.
- Bob: We need a new message table slide without the "Used" column.
  - The parser release date likely will be in June.

AR: Mike send updated sample IBISCHK message table slide to Bob


IBISCHK Document:

Meeting ended: 12:08

Next meeting May 27