Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

23 May 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:

- None

Call for opens:

- None

ARs:

- Mike LaBonte to write text for contract to complete IBISCHK message help.
  - Deferred until next parser release.

IBISCHK Parser 6.1.4 development contract:
- Bob: Atul has asked a few more questions to him him complete the work.
  - One question was if the name of MacOS should be Darwin.
- Mike: Darwin is the name of the kernel, MacOS the full operating system.
  - Kernel names are obscure so we should try to go with the more common OS names.
- Bob: Arpad Muranyi has found a crash problem checking a certain IBIS file.
  - He is unable to forward a testcase.
- Bob showed an email from Arpad.
- Mike: The message indicates the program found a problem in mdl.c line 1261.
  - The assertion did not cause an exit, but it happened three times.
  - If lines 14435 through 14442 of the IBIS file could be sent that might help.

Meeting ended: 11:14 ET

Next meeting May 30, 2017