DATE: June 19, 1995 SUBJECT: 6/15/95 EIA IBIS Open Forum Meeting Minutes VOTING MEMBERS: AT&T Global Info Solutions Dave Moxley Cadence Design Sandeep Khanna, C. Kumar* Contec Dileep Divekar* HyperLynx Kellee Crisafulli INCASES Werner Rissiek*, Olaf Rethmeier Intel Corporation Stephen Peters, Will Hobbs*, Arpad Muranyi, Derrick Duehren* Interconnectix, Inc. Bob Ross* Meta-software Les Spruiell* Motorola Ron Werner National Semiconductor Syed Huq*, Atul Agarwal, Cheng-Yang Kao* NEC Hiroshi Matsumoto Quad Design Jon Powell* Quantic Labs Mike Ventham Texas Instruments Bob Ward* Thomson-CSF/SCTF Jean LeBrun* UniCAD Canada Ltd. Stephen Lum* Zuken-Redac John Berrie OTHER PARTICIPANTS: ARPA Randy Harr Anacad Steffen Rochel Ansoft Henri Maramis Atmel Corporation Dan Terry Cadlab Ralf Bruning Digital Equipment Corp. Barry Katz EIA Patti Rusher* High Design Technology Michael Smith, Dr. Ing. Cosso Hewlett Packard Tom Langdorf, Karl Kachigan, Henry Wu IBM Jay Diepenbrock Integrated Silicon Systems Eric Bracken Intergraph Ian Dodd, David Wiens, Walter Katz IntuSoft Charles Hymowitz LSI Logic Corp. Satish Pratadneni* Mentor Graphics Ravender Goyal, Greg Doyle Meta-Software Mei Wong, You-Pang Wei, John Sliney MicroSim Arthur Wong North Carolina State U. Steve Lipa, Michael Steer OptEM Engineering, Inc. Benny Leveille, Ken Ehn Pacific Numerix Paul K. U. Wang Symmetry Martin Walker Synopsys, Logic Modeling G. Bill Lattin Zeelan Technology George Opsahl*, Hiro Moriyasu In the list above, attendees at the meeting are indicated by *. Upcoming Meetings: The bridge numbers for future IBIS teleconferences are as follows: Date Bridge Number Reservation # Passcode 6/30/95 (916) 356-9999 1-3145 3815654 7/21/95 (916) 356-9999 1-3147 7221442 8/11/95 (916) 356-9999 1-3150 8492193 All meetings are 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time. We try to have agendas out 7 days before each open forum and meeting minutes out within 7 days after. When you call into the meeting, ask for the IBIS Open Forum hosted by Will Hobbs and give the reservation number. NOTE: "AR" = Action Required. -------------------------------- MINUTES ------------------------------------- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS Everyone introduced themselves and stated their involvement/interest in IBIS. Jean LeBrun went into some detail on his activities in the European CAD Standards Initiative group working on modeling standards. Two years ago he learned of IBIS just as he was about to launch a similar activity in Europe, and chose to monitor the progress of IBIS instead, to see if it met their needs. It has. He has also been applying IBIS to EMC simulation and has found it very accurate. He also discussed some of the thermal modeling work he has been engaged in, in a similar approach to IBIS. We had 14 attendees at the IBIS Birds of the Feather session the previous evening. Jon Powell lead the discussion, as Will Hobbs was leading the OMF discussion across the hall. EIA IBIS MEMBERSHIP UPDATE We now have 17 paid members (indicated in the participant list above). 10 were present to vote. PUBLIC RELATIONS Jon and Patti will be creating a poster of participant companies' logos. Everyone likes the concept. Patti will send letters on EIA letterhead asking for official permission to use of the logos on the poster. Jon will also get another 40 "IBIS Spoken Here" placards made. Send email to Jon (JonP@qdt.com) if you want one. Patti published a press release just before DAC. We will wait until the end of the balloting process before issuing another press release. Syed reported on National's internal WWW page. NSC has a variety of IBIS information files posted internally. Syed and Patti are working to set up an EIA home page for IBIS. Content suggestions: o EDN article (we still own the rights) o Frequently asked questions, or FAQ o Presentation materials from conferences, etc. o IBIS overview (2.1 Update needed) o EDA/Semiconductor company home page links o Links to publicly available models A link to the vhdl.org library is possible via ftp. Jon motioned that all submissions to the WWW home page be approved by a majority vote of the members present. The motion was passed. Syed volunteered to be the "Web Master". Syed also discussed his successful efforts within NSC to propagate IBIS. AR Syed - Post to the reflector a summary of your efforts to promote IBIS within NSC. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Chair: Will Hobbs Vice Chair: Jon Powell Secretary: Bob Ross Librarian: Michael Steer (not present - has option to decline) Having only one person nominated to each position, all positions were elected by acclamation, effective next meeting. STATUS OF IBIS SPEC BALLOTING So far, Patti has received about five positive responses to the ballot, with no comments that require response from the committee. 8/22/95 is the deadline for ballot responses. We will then have 5 working days to finish responding to the comments (we can respond to the comments as they arrive). All comments must have a response. Any substantive technical changes must go out for a second 30-day ballot. Once it is approved as an EIA standard, EIA656, Patti will present it to ANSI in Sept./Oct. to become a National standard, then on to the international community to make it an international standard. Jean LeBrun pointed out that to be approved internationally the spec must have a clear statement of the scope and purpose. GOLDEN PARSER UPDATE Will received an update from Paul Munsey before leaving for DAC but has yet to distribute it. Paul believes that this is the "final" version. But Bob Ross would like us to contract Paul to make changes to the banded matrix section (see BIRD 29 discussion). INCREASING MODEL AVAILABILTIY Bob Ross presented a letter that Brock Hannibal, Tektronix, has written to his purchasing dept. It directs them to ask a series of questions of Tek's semiconductor suppliers, expressing preference for IBIS models and grilling them on their strategies for providing I/O models. We discussed the need for companies that have non-public IBIS models to advertise them on vhdl.org. We agreed that companies should be able to post lists of IBIS files that are available only under NDA to Michael Steer, using a similar approval/signature process as normal IBIS files. Michael could then post the file list to the companies' vhdl.org directory as a text file (models.nda?). BIRD 29.1, BANDED MATRICES Bob Ross summarized BIRD 29.1, which he posted 2 days ago (less than the 14 days required before a vote can be taken). The forum decided to have Paul Munsey roll BIRD 29.1 into the Golden Parser. We can formally approve the BIRD at our next meeting. ============================================================================== NOTES IBIS CHAIR: Will Hobbs (503) 264-4369, Fax (503) 264-4210 Will_Hobbs@ccm.jf.intel.com Modeling Manager, Intel Corp., Chairperson, EIA IBIS Open Forum 2111 NE 28th M/S JF1-50, Hillsboro, OR 97124 USA VICE CHAIR: Jon Powell (805) 988-8250, Fax: (805) 988-8259 JonP@qdt.com 1385 Del Norte Rd., Camarillo, CA 93010 SECRETARY: Derrick Duehren (503) 264-4299, fax (503) 264-4904 Derrick_Duehren@ccm.jf.intel.com Intel Program Manager To become a voting member of the EIA IBIS Open Forum, send email to ibis-info@vhdl.org for instructions. If you want to join the e-mail reflector (ibis@vhdl.org), send e-mail to the IBIS secretary at ibis-request@vhdl.org. Check the pub/ibis directory on vhdl.org for more information on previous discussions and results. You can get on via ftp anonymous, "guest" login from telnet or dial-in (415-335-0110), or send an email request to the automatic archive server, archive@vhdl.org. "IBIS Spoken Here" placards are available from Jon Powell (jonp@qdt.com) for use at trade shows. ==============================================================================