Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

7 April 2020

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

ROLL CALL

Intel Corp.                         Michael Mirmak
Mentor, a Siemens Business          Arpad Muranyi
Micron Technology                 * Randy Wolff
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 March 31 meeting were reviewed. Randy Wolff moved to accept.
Bob Ross seconded. Without objection the minutes were approved.


ARs:
- Mike LaBonte to update BUG210 with message update suggestions.
  Done.


Better IBISCHK error messages for BUG210:
Mike LaBonte showed bug210a.txt and described the changes.
Randy Wolff asked what the additional "%s and %s" items were for in E3814.
Mike said the same message was used for two checks, so it would print either:
  Pulse_high and Pulse_low
or
  D_overshoot_high or D_overshoot_low

Mike noted that adding the line number was proposed for E3814.  He showed the source
code for mspec.c, where this check was located.  We found that this was a post-process
check, performed after parsing of a [Model Spec] section was completed.  It would not
have been possible to know the line number, so Mike reverted the message to have the
original phrase "for Model Spec defined on line %d".  The two messages became:

  Pulse_time found with no associated Pulse_high or Pulse_low for Model Spec defined on line %d
  D_overshoot_time found with no associated D_overshoot_high or D_overshoot_low for Model Spec defined on line %d

AR: Mike LaBonte to send updated BUG210 to Bob Ross
AR: Bob Ross to have updated BUG210 posted


New IBISCHK bugs:
None.


TSCHK2 license agreement:
Bob Ross said this was approved by SAE ITC.  It will replace the currently posted
license document.  Bob noted the files for the first license and the currently
effective one were modified only two days apart.  We examined the documents and found
that TechAmerica was licensor on the older one and SAE International on the slightly
newer one, both in 2013.  The licensor was SAE ITC on the new license to be uploaded.
Mike suggested converting the page from a directory listing to HTML.  Randy Wolff agreed.

Mike noted that existing licensees will have different agreements than new licensees
for the same software.  Bob said the software version will still be 2.0.0.  He added
that we had bugs to fix but no one has been contracted to fix them.  A version 2.0.1
could be produced, and in that case we would archive all 2.0.0 page contents.

Mike suggested the new license document should have no signatures, dates or company
names.  Bob said the new one had names in it and we should not change an approved
document.  Randy Wolff agreed.

AR: Mike LaBonte to upload new TSCHK2 license and ask webmaster to produce HTML page


IBIS-ISS parser:
Bob Ross said we did not have the bandwidth to address this currently.
We decided to start a "Tabled topics" agenda section and place this into it.


Bob Ross moved to adjourn. Randy Wolff seconded. Without objection the meeting ended.

Meeting ended: 11:44 ET

Next meeting April 14, 2020