Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

09 October 2018

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
Mentor, a Siemens Business          Arpad Muranyi
Signal Integrity Software:        * Mike LaBonte
SPI Sim                             Wei-hsing Huang
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

Review of previous meeting minutes:

Minutes from the Oct 2 meetings were reviewed.
Bob Ross moved to approve. Lance Wang seconded.
Without objection the minutes were approved.

ARs:

- Mike LaBonte to write BUG202.
  - Done
- Bob Ross to ask IBISCHK source code licensees to test BUG202 testcase.
  - Done

New IBISCHK bugs:

- BUG202
Mike LaBonte said the bug was posted online, but we had no known course
of action for it.  Bob Ross suggested we might say we won't fix it,
noting that there is a workaround.  He said it should be marked Severe,
not Fatal. Mike said that when it happens it is fatal, but the priority
could be marked as Low because there is a workaround.  Bob said a few EDA
vendors had tested. Keysight had reported that it would crash even when
the first model was loaded, not the second. ANSYS would not have the crash
problem because they bypass the executable loading test in their software.
Mike suggested that making IBISCHK a C++ program might solve the problem,
but a good number of IBISCHK source files failed to compile using g++. He
said that a source licensee might have a C++ compatible  version of IBISCHK
code they could contribute.

IBISCHK615 parser development:
Bob Ross said the parser is presumably in development, but no word yet.
He noted that the deadline is in November.

IBISCHK700 parser development:
Bob Ross noted that we still need to use the new contract template for this,
but there is no urgency because IBIS 7.0 is not yet ready.

Bob Ross moved to adjourn. Lance Wang seconded. Without objection the meeting ended.

Meeting ended: 11:18 ET

Next meeting October 16, 2018