Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee

13 Sep 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:

- None

ARs:

- Bob contact Atul about executable name impact of regression tests.
  - 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.


IBIS Parser Development:
- Bob: Code has been received and checked.
  - It includes 32 and 64 for both Windows and Linux.
  - It has new 64 bit QA tests.
  - We have discovered new bugs that might not be fixed, unless they really are new.

- Bob showed a shellin windows running the new QA tests.
- Bob: A crash dialog is showing.
  - It appears twice in this test.
- Mike: Does this test load DLLs that are missing functions?
- Bob: It loads a DLL for the wrong platform.
- Mike: This is still accomplishing the task of checking DLL loadability.
  - This does not happen on Linux.
- Bob: It happens on Windows 32 and 64.
  - The bug 179 test works as expected.
- Mike: The bug178 test works on Windows for me with no error dialog.

- Mike showed HTML QA reports.
- Mike: The HTML reports indicate quite a few tests that fail.
  - Some of the failures seem to be due to legitimate changes.
  - For example the NOTE about combined I-V curve monotonicity.

AR: Bob ask Atul popup dialog on Window for bug 178 and 179 tests.

- Bob: Atul still needs to send the new spreadsheet.

- Mike: Another issue is the new IBISCHK613 flags an error if a DLL has no
  file extension.
  - IBIS has no such requirement.
- Bob: IBISCHK612 does not do this?
- Mike: Correct

AR: Bob ask Atul about new error for no DLL file extension.

- Bob: TxRx is now a reserved paranmeter but IBISCHK allows it in model specific.
  - It should use the AMI_Version to allow or disallow it.

Meeting ended: 11:41 ET

Next meeting September 20, 2016