Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

15 November 2022

12:00-13:00 Eastern Time (09:00-10:00 Pacific Time)

ROLL CALL

ANSYS                               Curtis Clark
Cadence Design Systems              Yingxin Sun
Intel Corporation                   Michael Mirmak
MathWorks                           [Mike LaBonte]
Micron Technology                   Randy Wolff*
SAE ITC                             Michael McNair
Siemens EDA                         Weston Beal*
Teraspeed Labs                      Bob Ross*
Unaffiliated                        Mike LaBonte
Zuken USA                           Lance Wang*

Everyone in attendance marked by *

NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.

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Bob Ross conducted the meeting.

Call for IBIS related patent disclosures:
 - None


Review of previous meeting minutes:
Minutes from the 25 OCT 2022 meetings were reviewed. Randy Wolff
moved to approve the minutes. Weston Beal seconded. Without objection the
minutes were approved.


Call for opens:
 - None


AR review:
 - Michael Mirmak to respond to Atul's request for DLL for Platform issue.
   Remains open
 - Bob will forward the email from Michael to Atul to see if the description is
   sufficient to reproduce the DLL platform problem.
   Remains open
 - Weston Beal work on inserting power aware rules into the Quality 
   Specification.
   Remains open
 - Weston Beal check ibischk7 V7.1.1 for relevant power aware checks.
   Remains open


New ARs:


Discussion:
Release 2 of ibischk 7.1.1 is uploaded on the IBIS web site, labeled 1 and 2. 
BUG228 and BUG238 are updated in release 2. Release 1 was essentially a beta 
version. Release 2 should be the final version for release to the members.

The BUG228 error text is more clear. It produces 2 error messages even though 
there is actually one error to correct in the IBS file. It is better to keep 
this non-ideal output than to go through another change to the parser 
development.

Mic Scheader suggested a more logical organization of the QA test cases. We 
will consider a change with the next version of the parser. This type of change 
might require more extensive changes in automated tests. This needs to be 
investigated.

Bob plans to submit a motion to the IBIS open forum to accept the current 
parser development.

BUG227 is defered to later parser work. It is related to a BIRD, so Bob 
proposed that we link the bug to the BIRD for development of the parser.

Weston proposed that we start the contracting process for development of tschk2 
immediately after the contract for ibischk7.2. This will get the bug fixes for 
tschk in the queue to avoid letting the development languish.


Quality Specification and checklist power aware discussion:
No discussion. The next steps depend on actions from Weston.


Tabled topics (no discussion without motion):
 - None


Lance moved to adjourn. Weston seconded. Without objection the meeting ended.

Meeting ended: 12:33 pm ET

Next meeting 22 NOV 2022