Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

03 February 2015

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

ROLL CALL

Ericsson:                           Anders Ekholm
Intel:                              Michael Mirmak
IO Methodology                      Lance Wang
Signal Integrity Software         * Mike LaBonte
Teraspeed Labs:                   * 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

Opens:

- None

ARs:

- Mike recover percent format specifications in spreadsheet.
  - No new progress, but almost done.

- Mike add comments to CMPNT, DLY, MSPEC sections.
  - No new progress.

- Lance add comments to EBD section.
  - No report.

- Bob add comments to CIRCUIT section.
  - No new progress.


Summit review:

- Mike: We had a few questions from our IBIS Quality presentation.
- Bob: David Banas did not comment on the threshold warnings.
  - We had expected he might.
- Mike: Someone brought up the correlation topic.
- Bob: We still have the Accuracy Handbook.
- Mike: We produced an IBIS Measurement and Correlation Handbook outline in 2010.
  - We also had the IEEE FSV proposal from Bruce Archambeault.
- Bob: That was complicated.
  - It had to be tuned.
  - A simple visual overlay is the best test.

- Mike: There seemed to be no interest in [External Test Load].
- Bob: The keyword set was getting very complex.
- Mike: The purpose of [Test Data] is to verify that an IBIS simulator is OK.
  - It should not be necessary to deliver that with IBIS models.

- Bob: Michael Mirmak asked about DLL checking.
  - We have two tools for that now.
- Mike: Those tools do not seem to be getting much use.
  - The PyAMI tool from David Banas might be a good alternative.
  - It might need more documentation and a compiled executable.

Meeting ended: 11:38

Next meeting February 10