Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

15 July 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:

Opens:

- None

ARs:

- Mike send IBISCHK document to Bob for editing
  - Done

- Mike add IBISCHK6 messages to 5.1.3 message list
  - Done

IBISCHK document:

- Bob showed the latest ibischk_spec_6.0_draft4.docx
- Bob: I'm not sure how to handle the Source Code section.
- Mike: It would be good to have that to promote source code purchases.
- Bob: The tables should be actual sections, not an appendix.
  - They would want to be in section 3 though.
  - Source Code should be moved to the introduction
- Mike: True, the details of that should be delivered only with the source code.
- Bob showed a paragraph he had inserted for that.
- Bob: The paragraph about version numbering needs a few more details.
- Mike: We should give the IBIS spec URL too.

- Bob discussed additions to Source Code section 4.
- Mike: We can drop 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, and move the description up to the introduction.
- Mike: The subsections of section 3 should not be in the TOC.
- Bob: I added examples and explanation of Cautions.
  - About messages, not sure whether to use "printed" or "displayed".
- Mike: Maybe "produced" or "generated".

- Bob: We are jumping ahead, showing message examples before the message section.
- Mike: That is common for examples.
- Bob: We are out of sequence in other ways too.
  - Also we don't to give the counts of each message type.
  - Also we have to be consistent about labels like "Code" in the Message Codes section.
    - They should match the table column headings.
- Mike: Section 5 might be titled Message Listing
- Bob changed it to Message Listing by Code
- Bob: We could also publish a spreadsheet listing for people to use

- Mike: In section 2 we should give examples of with and without -numbered.
- Bob: In section 3 we could show an example of each category.

AR: Bob update IBISCHK6 Specification Document

Meeting ended: 12:10

Next meeting July 22