Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

9 February 2016

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.

-----------------------MINUTES ---------------------------
Mike LaBonte conducted the meeting.

Call for IBIS related patent disclosures:

- None

Call for opens:

- None

ARs:

- Mike resolve IBISCHK message parameter count issues.
  - Not done yet

- 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.


Parser development:
- Bob: We will have a 6.1.2 release even though it has few changes.
  - It might take a week or so.


AMI Executable checking:
- Mike: We probably would need a new contract for Atul to do this,
  it's probably not a small job.
- Bob: We might specify what the message strings should be.
  - The contract might be trimmed to eliminate duplication.

- Mike showed the DLL Checking document.
- Mike: We should have it make function calls.
  - This will find some dependency issues.
  - We would need two things in the source:
    - A generic tree parser.
    - a function to form a DLL string.

- Mike showed the source code file algmod.c
- Mike: There is a PTREE structure defined, used to contain
  parsed AMI file contents.
  - There is no function to convert the structure to a string though.

- Mike showed DLL_Checking_draft.docx
- Bob: We might have an ibischk option to run this.
- Mike: We might make it the default and have an option to not run it.
  - In case of model crashing we want to have a way to run other checks.
- Lance: We will need Windows 64 ibischk executables.
  - People may be confused when it won't check a DLL of another platform.
- Mike: We might have ibischk print the platform it is compiled for.

AR: Mike update DLL_Checking_draft.docx

Meeting ended: 11:48 ET

Next meeting Feb 16, 2016