Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee 27 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. -----------------------MINUTES --------------------------- Mike LaBonte conducted the meeting. Call for IBIS related patent disclosures: - None Call for opens: - None ARs: - Bob ask Atul about AMI file line numbers starting at 0. - Bob: That's a bug report. - 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. BUG 181: - Mike showed bug 181.txt - Mike: An error on line 2 is printed as line 1. - Bob: I made a change and got 3 errors, printed as line 0. - I can get 8 errors too. - There is a procedure for correcting the files. - Mike: It would help for ibischk to indicate line number correctly - Also give the charecter position. - The "0x" is missing from these hexadecimal messages. - Bob: That's a flasse message anyway. - Lance: Can a quoted string have parentheses in them? - Bob: No - Mike: IBIS does not prohibit that - Lance: If it can't have parentheses it will terminate there. - Bob described the procedure for fixing the files. - Mike showed IBIS 6.1 where it describes AMI quoted strings. - Bob: It should report only one error. - The line numbering is off by one. - Lance: That will make errors hard to find. - It should at least give the root. - Bob: The other ibischk messages that produce false errors from one true error. IBIS Parser Development: - Bob: Atul has released 6.1.3 Meeting ended: 12:05 ET Next meeting October 4, 2016