1998 EIA IBIS Committee Participation Roster
As of 11/23/98 (updated periodically) Rev4.3 Previous participation under old95,old96 and old97 directories Submit changes/updates to: Syed B. Huq (408)525-3399, Fax (408)526-5504
NOTE: This roster lists companies and organizations that have either participated in creating the IBIS spec or are creating/distributing/using IBIS models. Other than the specific statements of support under each organization's name, no support nor endorsement of the specification is implied. Companies designated by * are members of the EIA IBIS Open Forum.
Alcatel Telecom
Contact: John Fitzpatrick
Web:
Phone: + 33 2 96 04 79 33
Fax: + 33 2 96 04 85 09
Address: 4 rue Louis de Broglie
22304 Lannion
France
Support: IBIS models used in CAD tool chain.
Tag-line: Telecommunication equipment manufacturer.
Category:
Contact: Greg Steinke
Phone: (408) 544-7872
Fax:
Address: 101 Innovation Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
Support: Altera offers IBIS models for all new devices on the corporate
web site (http://www.altera.com).
Tagline: Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is the world's leading
supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs). Altera also provides
software and megafunctions to support these PLDs.
* AMP Incorporated
Contact: Martin G. Freedman
Web:
Phone: (717) 592-6270
Fax: (717) 592-6179
Address: M.S. 210-20
P.O. Box 3608
Harrisburg, PA 17105-3608 Harrisburg, PA 17105-3608
Support: AMP Global Technology group is investigating the IBIS format
for modeling connector electrical performance. We are actively
supporting the work of the IBIS Open Form in this area.
Tag-line: AMP is the world's largest supplier of electrical connectors.
Electrical performance models, in SPICE format, are currently
available for high speed interconnects.
Category:
* Applied Simulation Technology, Inc
(formerly Contec CAE, Ltd.)
Contact: Raj Raghuram
Phone: (408) 436-9070 ext101, Fax: (408) 436-9078
Address: 1641 N. First Street Suite 170
San Jose, CA 95112
Support: Applied Simulation Technology tools support IBIS models.
Tag-line: Applied Simulation Technology offers accurate, state of the art
signal integrity, EMI / EMC and circuit simulation tools.
Category: EDA vendor
* Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Contact: Todd Westerhoff, Mike LaBonte, Celso Faia
Phone: (508) 262-6327, Fax: 508-262-6600
Address: 270 Billerica Rd,
Chelmsford, MA 01824
Support: Cadence fully supports IBIS models. Cadence's SPECCTRAQuest
product family offers a vendor-specific, IBIS compatible signal
integrity library of over 9000 components. Cadence also
provides a translator program enabling the conversion of IBIS
1.1 through 3.1 files to Cadence library format.
Tag-line: Cadence, the worldwide leader in electronic design automation,
combines leading-edge technology and a complementary set of
services to accelerate and advance the overall performance
engineering of high-speed electronic systems.
Category: EDA vendor
Contact: Syed Huq
Phone: (408) 525-3399, Fax: 408-526-5504
Address: 170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA
Support: Cisco is an active participant and supporter of IBIS activities.
IBIS models are used for Signal Integrity Analysis on
High-speed Networking products. Cisco is also the webmaster of the
IBIS website.
Tag-line: Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in
networking for the Internet. Cisco products include routers, LAN and
ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software.
These products, integrated by the Cisco IOS software, link
geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM networks. Cisco Systems
news and product/service information are available on the World Wide
Web site at http://www.cisco.com. Cisco Systems is headquartered in
San Jose, California.
Category: IBIS user and model developer.
* Compaq Computer Corporation
(also formerly Digital Equipment Corporation)
Contact: Robert Haller
Web:
Phone: (978) 493-4112, Fax: (978) 493-0941
Address: 129 Parker St. PKO3-1/20C
Maynard, MA 01754
Support: Digital will generate IBIS models for its own chip products,
including the line of ALPHA AXP microprocessors, peripheral and
communication chips, as needed, and support IBIS models in
in-house simulation tools.
Tag-line: Digital, maker of the world's fastest microprocessor, is also a
leading developer of computer systems, and networking and
communication products, including PCI.
Category:
Crucial Technology
(subsidiary of micron)
Contact: Rathna Reddy
Phone : 512-248-5107
Fax : 512-248-5190
Address: One Chisholm Trail
suite 3200 Round Rock
Texas 78681
Support: IBIS model used in Mentor tool (ICX ).
* Cypress Semiconductor
Contact: Bruce Wenniger
Web:
Phone: (408) 943-2688, Fax: (408) 943-2843
Address: 3901 N. First Street , MS2.2-3
San Jose, CA 95134
Support: Cypress will generate IBIS models for the integrated circuits
it designs and manufactures.
Tag-line: Cypress is a leader in the development and production of high-
performance CMOS and BiCMOS digital integrated circuits.
Category: Model provider
EIA/Electronic Information Group
Contact: Patti Rusher
Phone: (703) 907-7545. Fax: (703) 907-7501
Address: 2500 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
Support:
Tag-line:
Category:
* H.A.S Electronics, Inc
Contact: Haruny Said
Phone: (508)624-6227, Fax:(508)624-6054
Address: 33 Boston Post Rd West, Suite 270
Marlborough, MA 01752
Support: H.A.S Electronics, Inc is currently developing a number of service
and tools in order to provide inexpensive and accurate IBIS models
to engineers over the World Wide Web
Tag-line: H.A.S Electronics, Inc is a small and growing company that has been
providing IBIS modeling services since 1995. Our aim is to create a
high quality reliable service with a small customer base and then
grow gradually with the increasing demand for models.
* Hewlett-Packard/HP EEsof Division
Contact: Karl Kachigan
Web:
Phone: (707) 577-3949, Fax: (707) 577-5260
Address: 1400 Fountaingrove Parkway
Santa Rosa, CA 94503
Support: Support IBIS models in HP 85240 Picosecond Interconnect
Modeling Suite for interconnect model development and
analysis.
Tag-line: HP EEsof is a leading supplier of high frequency analog
(RF/Microwave) design and modeling tools.
Category: EDA vendor
Contact: Razvan Ene
Phone: + 39 11 746.104, Fax: + 39 11 748.109
Address: c.so Trapani 16
10139 Torino - Italy
Support: High Design Technology (HDT) provides services to characterize
and create IBIS models from datasheet or wide-band measure
system based on TDR (Time Domain Reflectometer).
HDT will soon provide a translation program that converts from
IBIS models format to internal .emd/.pmd models format. This
translator will use the Golden Parser code with improved checks.
Tag-line: HDT, founded in 1990, provides tools and services for signal
integrity and EMC simulation of printed circuit boards and
multichip modules within its environment PRESTO. Proprietary wide-band
behavioural models allow accurate simulation of large and
high-speed systems.
HDT provides also customization services for its clients. An
example of solution developed under custom specification is the
THRIS tool suite adopted by Telecom Italia (the major italian
telecom operator) for the qualification of network apparatus.
Category: EDA vendor and models provider
* HyperLynx
Contact: Kellee Crisafulli
Phone: (206) 869-2320, Fax: (206) 881-1008
Address: 17641 N.E. 67th. Ct.
Redmond, WA 98052
Support: HyperLynx supplies signal integrity and electromagnetic-compatibility
(EMC) analysis software.
HyperSuite: HyperSuite is an integrated Windows 95/98/NT-based
software suite that includes pre-layout (LineSim) and post-layout
(BoardSim) signal integrity and EMC simulation products with options
for crosstalk analysis.
BoardSim: BoardSim allows automated verification by reading a routed
board-layout file. These files can come from numerous PCB layout
packages. Options include EMC analysis. BoardSim natively supports
IBIS files and ships with a set of IBIS libraries.
LineSim: LineSim allows detailed planning prior to labor-intensive
layout, using a specialized "topology" schematic editor to model
complex interconnect scenarios. Options include EMC analysis and
crosstalk analysis. The simulator
reads IBIS files as part of its native library support. LineSim ships
with a set of IBIS libraries.
Visual IBIS Editor: Visual IBIS Editor is an IBIS model development
tool available without charge at www.hyperlynx.com. It includes syntax
Validation, model templates, a wavetable viewer, and text editor.
Tag line: HyperLynx's signal integrity and EMC simulation tools are used by
more engineers than any competing tool on the market today.
Category: EDA vendor
Contact: Werner Rissiek, Olaf Rethmeier
Phone: ++49-5251-150-620, ++49-5251-150-625, Fax: ++49-5251-150-700
Address: INCASES Engineering GmbH
Vattmannstrasse 3
D-33100 Paderborn, Germany
Support: INCASES provides the simulation packages INSIDE (INCASES Signal
Integrity Diagnostic Environment) for signal integrity analysis
and COMORAN (COMputation of RAdiatioN) for radiation analysis
within its product family EMC-Workbench.
INCASES provides the IBIS-to-INCASES converter that bases on the
IBIS Golden Parser 2.1. The converter creates INCASES macromodels,
corresponding reference lists, and further information for the
components in a fully automatic way.
The INCASES Library management tool EXLIN provides specific features
to import the new models generated by the converter into respective
libraries. EXLIN checks for consistency, supports the defintion of
user specific IDs, and allows to reference the models also for other
components which show a similar behaviour as the original ones.
Detailed information is available on request.
Tag-line: INCASES Engineering, GmbH, Germany, founded on November 1, 1994,
is a supplier of design automation software and consulting
services to the electronic design automation (EDA) market,
focusing on EMC and 'Design for Manufacturability'. INCASES
develops, sells, and supports two major product lines: THEDA,
acquired from Computervision Corporation and EMC-Workbench,
acquired from Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG.
Category: EDA vendor
Contact: Will Hobbs
Phone: (503) 264-4369, Fax: (503) 264-4515
Address: 2111 N.E 25th Avenue, JF1-56
Hillsboro, OR 97124-5961
Support: Intel is a strong supporter of the IBIS standard, and provides
IBIS models for many of its components. To access models of
publicly announced and supported components, access Intel models
directory on the IBIS web page:
http://www.eda.org/pub/ibis/models/intel
For information on models of unannounced products, contact your
local Intel field sales office.
Tag-line: Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading
manufacturer of personal computer networking and communications
products.
Category: Model provider
Contact: Charles Hymowitz
Phone: (310) 833 0710
Fax: (310) 833 9658
Address: 222 West 6th St., Suite 1070
San Pedro CA 90731
USA
Support: SPICE Models made from IBIS data sheets
Tag-line: Analog and Mixed-Sgnal Design and Test tools
Category: EDA Vendor
KAW/USA
Contact: Shin-ichi Maeda (Maeda)
Phone: (603) 886-8711 (ext.212), Fax: (603) 881-8763
Address: 39 Simon Street
Nashua, NH 03051
Support: IBIS models created and used for board level simulation.
Tag-line: A total concept solution for P.C.B. by design, simulation,
consulting, training, analysis and schematic capture; by using
Mentor-Board Station/Design Architect, Cadence/Allegro/Concept/
Boardquest, Unicad and CCT-Router.
Category:
Contact: Brian Johnson
Phone: (208) 368-3849 Fax:
Address: 8000 South Federal Way
P.0. Box 6
Boise, ID 83707-0006
Support:
Tag-line:
Category:
* Mentor Graphics
(Interconnectix Business Unit, Zeelan, etc.)
Contact: Bob Ross Tom Dagostino Malcolm Ash
Bob Ross Tom Dagostino Malcolm Ash
Phone: (503)685-0732, (503)685-1613 (503)685-4737
Fax: (503)685-4897 (503)685-1001 (503)685-4897
Address: Mentor Graphics
8005 S.W. Boeckman Road
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070
Support: The Interconnect Synthesis (IS) product supports IBIS Version 2.1
and some IBIS Version 3.0 features. Interface extensions for
component and model selection and termination generation
allow IBIS formatted data to be used in "what if" investigations
and automatic synthesis operations.
Products include the ICX Standard Library, ICX Project Modeling, and
ICX Custom Modeling. These products are sold to Mentor Graphics
Interconnect Synthesis tool customers. In addition IBIS models are
supplied to IC vendors for re-distribution to end user customers.
Models are created from measurements of physical devices under a
tightly controlled high frequency fixture and modeling system, or from
SPICE models. These accurate models closely represent actual device
behavior when used in simulation.
Tag-line: The leading Interconnect Synthesis supplier and digital signal
integrity simulation model supplier
Category: EDA Vendor, Model Provider
* Mitsubishi Semiconductor America,
Inc.
Contact: Tam(Tom) Cao(Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc. - Electronic Device Group)
Phone: (919) 479-3479, Fax: (919) 479-3309
Address: Three Diamond Lane
Durham, NC 27705
Contact: Midori Nakamae(Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Memory IC Div)
Fax: +81 727 80 2649
Address: 4-1 Mizuhara,Itami,Hyogo 664,Japan
Support: Mitsubishi provides IBISv2.1 models for selected
memory product lines.
Tag-line: Mitsubishi designs, engineers, and produces advanced semiconductor
devices for use in computer video and communications equipment.
Category: Models provider & End user.
* Motorola
Contact: Ron Werner
Email:
Web:
Ron Werner
Phone: (602) 441-8593
Fax: (602) 441-2363
Address: 8201 E. McDowell Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85252
Support:
Tag-line:
Category:
* National Semiconductor Corp.
Contact: Milt Schwartz
Phone: (408) 721-3261, Fax:(408)721-4785
Address: 2900 Semiconductor Drive, M/S A-2595
Santa Clara, CA 95052
Support: National Semiconductor provides IBISv1.1 and IBISv2.1 models
from various product lines.
Refer to http://www.natonal.com/models/ibis/ibis.html for the
latest available models.
Tag-line: National Semiconductor will provide system-on-a-chip
solutions for our key data highway strategic partners, exploiting
our analog expertise as a starting point for forward integration.
Category: Model provider & End user
* NEC Corporation
Contact: Hiroshi Sakuma
Phone: +81 -44-435-1501(DIR), Fax: +81 -44-435-1887
Address: Design Sys. Dept., System ASIC Div., NEC Corp.
1753 Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki Japan 211
Support: NEC is willing to write some IBIS models and a model generator
for some of its LSI components.
Tag-line:
Category:
North Carolina State University
Contact: Michael Steer, Paul Franzon, Alan Glaser
Phone: 919-515-5191 919-515-7351 919-515-3947
FAX for all three: 919-515-5523
Address: ECE Dept. Box 7911
NC State Univ.
Raleigh, NC 27695-7911
Support: Two SPICE to IBIS converters have been developed and are in
the public domain. They are both available on our Web page,
and at the IBIS Web page.
Category:
* Quad Design Technology, Inc.
Contact: Jon Powell
Phone: (805) 988-8250, Fax: (805) 988-8259
Address: 1385 Del Norte Rd.
Camarillo, CA 93010
Support: Quad Design has a translation program that translates from IBIS
format to Quad Design .mod format. This translator uses the
Golden Parser code with enhancements to warn of malformed (yet
legal) models. The translator supports user input to be able to
select from the min-typ-max range of IBIS data. This program
(IBIS2XTK) is available now and is distributed with XTK
Crosstalk and transmission line simulation tool kit.
Tag-line: Quad Design is a leading supplier of Signal Integrity and Timing
tools for high speed digital designs.
Category: EDA vendor
Contact: Mike Ventham
Phone: (204) 942-4000, Fax: (204) 957-1158
Address: 191 Lombard Ave
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 0X1
Canada
Support: Quantic provides an IBIS reader (based on the Golden
Parser) that will read IBIS models and automatically generate
data files for Phidias (our graphical VI curve device modellor)
and database files that associate the component definitions with
the pin models.
From Phidias, both SPICE models for PCB Greenfield (our pre
and post layout transmission line simulator) and models used
in BoardScan, (our PC board screener for signal integrity and
crosstalk problems), EmcScan, (for scanning radiated
emissions near the board) and Compliance (the EMC system simulator)
can be created.
This is available now for Quantic customers.
Tag-line: Quantic has been the leading supplier of field solvers and
signal integrity tools since 1983. We also provide leading edge
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) tools.
Category: EDA vendor
* LSI Logic(Symbios, Inc.)
Contact: Larry Barnes
Phone: (719) 533-7000
Fax: (719) 533-7480
Address: 4420 Arrowswest Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
Support: Symbios will generate selective IBIS models for the integrated
circuits it manufactures.
Tag-line:
Category: Model Provider
* Texas Instruments, Inc.
Contact: Ben Andresen(ASIC), Roger Cline(ASIC)
Thomas Fisher(Data Transmissions)
Jean Claude Perrin(Texas Instruments France)
Ben Andresen Roger Cline
Phone: (972) 480-4028 (972) 480-4053
Fax: (972) 480-4400 (972) 480-4400
Address: 8505 Forest Lane 8505 Forest Lane
Dallas, TX. 75243 Dallas, TX. 75243
M/S 8664 M/S 8664
Thomas Fisher Jean Claude Perrin
(Data Transmissions) EMC support (Texas Instruments France)
(972) 480-3736 Chair of the IEC WG6EMC task force
(972) 480-3160 Phone: (33) 4 93 22 23 90
8505 Forest Lane Fax : (33) 4 93 22 27 40
Dallas, TX. 75243 821 Avenue Jack Kilby - BP5
M/S 8710 06271 Villeneuve Loubet Cedex France
Support: TI is working on a tool to automatically generate IBIS models
from TI SPICE simulations (TI's proprietary SPICE dialect).
Data Transmissions Group is ramping up to provide IBIS (v2.1) models
for their new and existing products.
Tag-line: With more than 15,000 worldwide customers, TI's unique breadth
of digital and mixed-signal products offer innovative solutions
for today's competitive global markets.
Category: Model provider
* Thomson-CSF/SCTF
Contact: Jean Lebrun
Web:
Phone: 1/69 33 00 99, Fax: 1/69 33 00 10
Address: L'oree De Corberville
BP 56
91401 Orsay
France
Support:
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Contact: Charles Im
Web:
Phone: (408) 433-2244 Fax: (408) 433-5508
Address: 2284-C Ringwood Ave
San Jose, CA, 95131
Support: UltraTest International supports automated data generation
from lab measurements for IBIS modeling.
Tag-line: UltraTest International manufactures the MultiTrace System, which is
a fully automated, digital sampling, integrated curve tracer and DC
Parametric tester with latch-up capabilities. It can do any type of
DC electrical characterization for devices up to 625 pins and with
data manipulation software, the MultiTrace is able to acquire
measurements from a device or wafer and format the data in any desired
way.
Category:
UniCAD,Inc.
(A Cadence Company)
Contact: Celso Faia
Phone: (613) 596-9091 Ext. 337
Address: 2745 Iris Street
6th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K2C 3V5
Support: SytheSolve/UniSolve supports IBIS version 2.1 in native
format.
Tag-line: UniCAD, INC. provides software used in the design of
printed circuit boards and multichip modules. It
provides the only available concurrent virtual
prototyping environment that can simultaneously
deal with Emissions, Signal Integrity, and Thermal
issues throughout the design process.
Category: EDA vendor
Contact: David Wiens
Phone: (303) 581-2306
Address: 6101 Lookout Rd.
Boulder, CO 80301
Support: The VeriBest PCB Signal Analyzer product uses native IBIS
device models for signal simulation.
Tag-line: VeriBest Inc. provides electronic design automation tools for
designers of electronic system that include PCBs, ASICs, FPGAs,
and PLDs. VeriBest bridges the cost/capability gap by providing
proven design flows that interoperate between Windows NT/95 and
UNIX operating systems.
Category: EDA vendor
* VLSI Technology
Contact: Richard Ulmer
Web:
Phone: (602) 752-6252 Fax: (602) 752-6002
Address: 8375 South River Parkway
Tempe, AZ 85284
Support:
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Contact: John Berrie
Phone: +44 (0)1454 207800, Fax +44 (0)1454 207803
Address: Zuken-Redac Research & Design Centre,
1500 Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4RF
England
Other offices worldwide
Support: Zuken-Redac fully supports IBIS with the introduction of Visula
release 5.0.5 on Windows NT and Unix in 1998. Tools include
constraint engineering and prototyping via a new
product (Hot-Stage), autorouting with IBIS-based constraints, new
functionality in the user-programmable Design Adviser and full
IBIS compatibility in existing products. In addition,
IBIS-compatible third-party products interface to our environment,
allowing a single set of models for SI and EMC.
Tag-Line: Zuken-Redac is a world leader in design automation, providing
open, leading technology, standards-based CAD-CAM solutions.
Category: EDA vendor