Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

07 Jun 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
Visteon:                            Preetesh Rathod

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: Specification comments from Curtis Clark

ARs:

- Bob post BUG 178
  - Done

- 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 User Guide:
- Mike: We've had no progress on the USER GUIDE but at least it's available as a
  draft.
- Bob: Some people do use the USER GUIDE.
  - They can see what checks are performed.
- Mike: When people ask questions about the checks we should make sure the USER GUIDE
  covers that check well.


IBISCHK BUG 178:
- Bob: Nothing has changed, it is up to date.


Parser Contract:
- Bob showed a draft parser development contract.
- Bob: It would be IBISCK 6.1.3
  - This is based on the 6.1.0 contract.
- Bob reviewed all updates made to the contract.
- Bob: We will not require building and testing Mac executables.
  - One question is when to send to SAE for review
- Mike: We should fill in blanks like the contract price first.

AR: Mike review DLL checking section of parser development contract


IBIS specification comments from Curtis Clark:
- Bob showed IBIS 6.1 page 323
- Bob: Curtis thinks "waveform sampled at the receiver latch" should have
  "samples".
- Mike: It probably should have "waveform edges sampled at".
- Bob: On page 235 "declared or set to NRZ" should have "not" before it.
- Mike: it should be is not declared or is set to NRZ".
- Bob: One question is which way IBISCHK enforces it.
- Mike: Most likely IBISCHK gets it right.

AR: Mike update ver6_1_known_issues with Curtis Clark's findings.

Meeting ended: 11:47 ET

Next meeting June 14, 2016