Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

17 March 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 IBIS related patent disclosures:

- None

Call for opens:

- Bob: We need to talk about the Table and Format bug

ARs:

- Mike draft String parsing bug report and send to Bob for review.
  - Done.
  - Bob submitted BUG 159.

- Mike produce text files for each IBISCHK message that has no comment.
  - No new progress.

- Mike recover percent format specifications in spreadsheet.
  - Some progress, going faster with larger screen.

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

- Lance add comments to EBD section.
  - No new progress.

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


IBISCHK bug 159:

- Bob showed bug 159.
- Bob: Not much needs to be said about this.
  - It will be prioritized this Friday.


IBISCHK bug 160:

- Bob showed bug 160.
- Bob: These are code issues, not functional.
  - Curtis has provided the solution.


IBISCHK Format and Table parsing problem:

- Bob showed a testcase AMI file from Mike's reserved word investigation.
- Bob: This has lowercase versions of reserved words but it checks clean.

- Bob showed a second testcase AMI file from Mike's reserved word investigation.
- Bob: This has leading uppercase reserved words.
  - It passes the check only if the "Table" and "Format" parameters are removed.
- Mike: The presence of those seems to make it treat Model_Specific as a parameter.
- Bob: We need to work on this.
  - We might use this test case as is.
- Mike: This raises the question of what "reserved word" means.
  - If they can be used as parameter names, that's unusual.
  - Other specifications mostly do not allow reserved words to be used as names.
- Bob: IBIS does not prevent them from being parameter names.


Additional IBISCHK code cleanup:

- Bob showed an email from Curtis Clark:
- Mike: This is the bug 160 email?
- Bob: No, it came after.
  - It lists deprecated files and other straightforward cleanups.
  - This might not need to be a bug.
- Mike: It might become a note in the developer contract.

- Bob showed an RCS header example in a code file.
- Bob: Curtis suggested removing those.
- Mike: I agree, they are deceptive since they are out of date.
  - Does Atul use version control?
- Bob: I don't know.

- Bob showed the IBISCHK source distribution files.
- Bob: Atul has maintained a lot of testing files for old versions.
  - Some test suites use TCL for example, which we don't use any more.
- Mike: We might ask Atul to propose what he would do for cleanup.

- Mike: Do we have every source distribution ever received?
- Bob: No we keep only the latest uploaded.
  - But several people all have copies.
- Bob checked, we have source distributions for 514, 600,and 601 on eda.org.


Meeting ended: 11:46

Next meeting March 24