Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

28 Feb 2017

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:

- The minutes page is up to date now.

Call for opens:

- None

ARs:

- Bob Ross to prepare IBISCHK bug report for lack of warning with empty .ami file
  - Will be discussed today

- Mike LaBonte to prepare IBISCHK bug report for missing newlines.
  - Mike was having trouble creating a testcase.
  - The only DLL know to produce the message is proprietary.
  - Might create a new DLL for this.

- Mike LaBonte to write text for contract to complete IBISCHK message help.
  - In progress.


Empty .ami file IBISCHK bug:
- Mike: An empty .ibs file also produces no errors at all.
  - It should fail because a number of IBIS keywords are required.
- Bob: We should try EBD and PKG too.
  - This needs to be fixed.
  - We will soon have 9 bugs to fix, it is time to do that.


Bug 185, IBISCHK for MacOS thinks it is Linux:
- Bob showed bug 185, not yet submitted.
- Mike: The copyright in the sample .ibs file should be retained.


Bug 186, unnecessary ./ in messages:
- Bob: I added a windows testcase.
  - The .ami, .so and .dll files are all empty.
- Mike: That should print an error with 6.1.3.
- Bob: It doesn't.
- Mike: Does the W5600 warning actually print "%1" in the message?
- Bob: Yes.
- Mike: The W5600 message should be an error, not a warning.
  - The .dll or .so cannot be used if it is invalid.
  - On Linux the message has "... file too short".
  - On Windows the message has "... not a valid Win32 application".


Bug 187. Missing newlines in error message
- Bob: This number will be reserved for the bug previously mentioned.


Bug 188, crash when [Model Selector] refers to absent [Model]
- Mike: The suggested fix is not from Yingxin Sun.
- Bob: This may have broken in 6.1.3 resulting from another [Model Selector] bug fix (175).


- Bob: Bug 184 is a serious spec violation
  - Reserved_Parameters new for IBIS 6.1 have been allowed in Model_Specific.


Meeting ended: 11:40 ET

Next meeting March 07, 2017