Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

30 Aug 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: bug 174

ARs:

- Bob ask if Atul can incorporate BUG 180 into current work.
  - No update.

- 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.


User Guide:
- Mike: We should add descriptions for any new checks added.
- Bob: Deprecated checks should not require descriptions.
  - We will not have any deprecations this time.
  - We never reuse check numbers.

IBIS Parser Contract:
- Mike: We should have ibischk executables named for each platform.
- Bob: The names could become long.
- Mike: We could use W32, W64, L32, L64.
  - They could be all zipped together, with documentation.
- Atul asked if he should create more QA directories.
- Mike: The 64 platforms might have only the platform dependent checks tested.
- Bob: Bug 174 needs to be tested on Windows 32.
- Mike: Each QA directory is about 85M.
  - Our distribution should not include completed QA results.

- Mike: We have received no feedback about ibischk platform problems.

- Mike: Should Atul test all 4 platforms or should we test the platforms he
  does not build?
- Bob: There could be word size related issues.
- Mike: We could ask Curtis Clark about this.
- Bob: We should not add more to Atul's work load.
- Mike: I test all platforms anyway.

AR: Bob ask Atul about impact of ading 64 bit QA directories

Meeting ended: 11:48 ET

Next meeting September 06, 2016