Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

11 August 2015

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

ROLL CALL

eASIC:                              David Banas
Ericsson:                           Anders Ekholm
Intel:                              Michael Mirmak
                                    Eugene Lim
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:

- None

ARs:

- 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.


DLL checks:

- Mike: In the 1990s an s2ibis3 to be paid for by the Open Forum was voted down.
  - DLL checking paid by the Open Forum might also be shot down.
- Bob showed the s2ibis3 specification from 1999.
- Bob: An official reference checker would be useful for initial screening of models.
  - Being official, it would be kept up to date
  - The IBIS-AMI test tools on the other hand have not been updated.
    - They do not support IBIS 6.1 flows for example.
- Mike: The SiSoft test tool is very low level, it might not need an update for that.

- Bob showed the s2ibis3 requirements document written in 1999.
- Bob: All we would need is very basic checking.
  - This s2ibis3 requirements document might give us a guide.
  - It mentions SpiTran, which provides a user interface.
- Bob showed the SpiTran web page.
- Lance: That had Java version problems, many people could not use it.

- Bob: Greg Edlund submitted a list of IBIS-AMI checks at one time.
- Mike: We discussed that but it was tabled.
  - Greg had meeting conflicts and could join only a few meetings.
  - There were unresolved questions about the meaning of some of the checks.

- Mike showed IBISCHK_DLL_checking_draft1.doc.
- Mike: The Existence Checks section of this would be easy to implement.
  - The other two sections require calling the functions.
  - It takes very few lines of code to load a DLL and lookup its functions.
  - The code is platform dependent however.
- Bob: A 32 bit machine can check only 32 bit models.
- Lance: Also 32 and 64 bit DLLs need different IBISCHKs to be checked.
- Bob: We should write this up as a detailed spec for IBISCHK.

AR: Mike draft IBISCHK DLL checking specification


Parser Contract review:

- Bob showed the current parser contract draft, updated today.
- Bob: Atul has quoted $3,800 for the work including BIRD178.3.
  - This seems low, I'm tempted to round up to $4,000.
- Mike: We can leave it as quoted and seek approval for a cost overrun later
  if needed.
- Bob: Before signing we need to have the vote to approve the $3800.
  - We can vote at the August 21 open forum meeting.
  - Atul might or might not begin work before SAE signs.
  - The deadline could be October 2.
- We agreed to set the parser work deadline at 2 Oct 2015.

Meeting ended: 11:58 ET

Next meeting Aug 18, 2015