Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

January 23, 2024

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

ROLL CALL

Siemens EDA                         Randy Wolff *, Weston Beal *
Teraspeed Labs                      Bob Ross *
Zuken USA                           Lance Wang *


Everyone in attendance marked by *

NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.

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Bob Ross conducted the meeting.
Weston Beal recorded the minutes.


Call for IBIS related patent disclosures:
 - None


Review of previous meeting minutes:
Minutes from the 09 JAN 2024 meetings were reviewed. Randy Wolff moved to
approve the minutes. Weston Beal seconded. Without objection the minutes were
approved.


Call for opens:
 - Bob asked the group to discuss an issue from Stefan Paret about compiling 
   IBISCHK.


AR review:
 - Bob will file the new bug report regarding path name to be fixed in the 
   next version of IBISCHK. Send BUG246_draft1.
      done
 - Bob Ross – Send revised TSCHK2.1.0 contract to Atul Agarwal for signature.
      done


New ARs:
 - Bob will reply to Stefan Paret about compiling IBISCHK.


Discussion:
 - [AR] Bob will get some details from Stefan Paret about his compiler and 
   environment. He will probably then send the question and the details to 
   Atul for a recommendation.

a. BUG246_draft1
   Bob presented a draft2 for editing during the meeting. The title of the bug 
   is "clarification on slash characters and parser usage." This is an issue 
   on Windows only since the specification says to always use forward slash 
   (/) characters for the path delimiter. This is the normal syntax on Linux. 
   Weston said that the forward slash in the Windows command line probably 
   should not be valid. It's inconsistent that IBISCHK allows this syntax when 
   finding the IBS file to open, but then does not use the base file name to 
   compare the value of [File Name]. Randy verified that the forward slash is 
   allowed and works correctly in the command prompt.

   The bug is not about incorrectly implementing the specification. The 
   problem is just that the parser assumed using only back-slash (\) for the 
   path delimiter on Windows. Therefore, the severity is not severe, but only 
   annoying.

b. Digital Signature in IBISCHK
   Bob suggested that we postpone this discussion until after DesignCon. This 
   idea came from Michael Mirmak. Intel might require or desire this feature. 
   This will require some discussion for understanding the requirements and 
   then a bug report.


Tabled topics (no discussion without motion):
 - none


Weston moved to adjourn. Randy seconded. Without objection, the meeting ended.

Meeting ended: 12:43 pm ET

Next meeting 06 FEB 2024