Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

24 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:

- Mike: David Banas is prepared to give a presentation on PyIBIS.
  - I may be unavailable on March 31.

ARs:

- Mike produce text files for each IBISCHK message that has no comment.
  - Done. Sent to Bob and Lance.

- 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.


Perl script to show code for IBISCHK messages without spreadsheet comments:

- Mike showed a code snippet generated by a Perl script.
- Mike: The ACDC_ERR_0 code here is commented out.
  - This could be HTML to highlight the message ID.
  - It could show all parts of the file where the ID shows up.
- Bob: What does the spreadsheet say?
- Mike showed the spreadsheet.
- Mike: There is no other information.
- Bob: It says it is connected to BUG154.
- Mike showed BUG154.
- Bob: That seems unrelated.
- Mike: The script could insert the spreadsheet line too.

- Mike showed MDL_ERR_156_code.txt.
- Bob: It should be illegal for the AMS languages too.
- Mike: They do support A2D.
  - We could have a comment here saying the language is Verilog or VHDL.
- Bob read the IBIS spec section for A2D and D2A.
- Bob: These are legal for those four languages.


PyIBIS:

- Mike: David Banas might join us in the future.
  - This would have advantages as a reference simulator.
- Bob: We have to state that none of these are official.


IBISCHK 6.0.2:

- Bob: We need a requirements document.
- Mike: The previous one can be used as a draft.
- Bob: That has much redundancy, needs to be cleaned up.

AR: Bob draft IBISCHK 6.0.2 development requirements.

Meeting ended: 11:45

Next meeting April 7