Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

21 May 2019

11:00-12:00 EST (08:00-09:00 PST)

ROLL CALL

Intel Corp.                         Michael Mirmak
Mentor, a Siemens Business          Arpad Muranyi
Signal Integrity Software:        * Mike LaBonte
SPISim                              Wei-hsing Huang
Teraspeed Labs:                   * Bob Ross
Zuken USA:                        * Lance Wang

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 May 7 meeting were reviewed.  Bob Ross moved to approve the minutes.
Lance Wang seconded.  Without objection the minutes were approved.


ARs:
- AR: Mike LaBonte to send bug204.txt to Bob Ross
  - Done.
- AR: Bob Ross to ask developer for an IBIS-ISS parser estimate.
  - Done. The estimate was 1-2 months of work, starting from an existing SPICE
    parser code base.


IBISCHK700 parser development:
Bob Ross said we received several questions from the developer and had answered them.
One question was about combining Gaussian and uniform noise. We agreed that they can
be used together, but IBIS does not specify how that is implemented by tools. He has
not gotten to BIRD189 changes yet.


New IBISCHK bugs:
Bob Ross said he had not yet written bugs suggested by Arpad Muranyi. Mike asked if
Arpad had not written these bugs himself due to issues providing testcase files. Bob
read some notes from Arpad. Some clarification might be needed. Mike LaBonte suggested
asking Arpad to join a meeting to work on it.


IBIS-ISS parser:
Bob Ross said we needed to define the level of parsing detail. Also it was not
certain we would integrate this into IBISCHK.  Mike noted that it has been suggested
to have a separate ISS parser, and to add an option to IBISCHK giving the ISSCHK
executable location.  We could do the same for TSCHK.  Bob Ross said we needed to
write a specification. He noted that Synopsys declined to offer source code.  The IBIS
Interconnect Task Group might take this up.


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

Meeting ended: 11:41 ET

Next meeting May 28, 2019