Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

29 March 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:

- Bob: We should discuss the bug from Walter.

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.

AMI Executable checking:

- Mike showed draft 2 of DLL_Checking_draft2.docx.
- Mike: This is not up to date, the Function Testing section
  needs to be removed.
- Bob: We could ask the Open Forum if they want execution testing.
  - A tool to thoroughly check AMI models would be good.
  - The free AMI simulators are not being maintained.

AR: Mike upload DLL checking spec with only load testing.

BUG from Walter Katz:

- Bob: This bug may be old, and we don't know who introduced it.
  - It is beyond the time frame to ask Atul to fix it for free.
  
AR: Bob write ibischk bug report for new [Model Selector] Series issues.


OSX IBISCHK:

- Bob showed a draft ibischk6 web page.
- Bob: This has osx_32 and osx_64 entries.
  - Mike needs to compile it for 32 bit OSX.

AR: Mike compile ibischk6 for osx_32

- Mike showed the Wikipedia page for uname.
- Mike: OSX is called "Darwin" by uname.
  - All of the Linux variants are called "Linux".
- Mike showed IBIS 6.1 page 171, about Executable.
- Mike: This does not standardize the Platform names to use.
  - We could standardize of what uname -s prints.
- Bob: We could use these names on the ibischk web page.


Meeting ended: 12:30 ET


Next meeting Apr 05, 2016