meeting date: 6 jun 2005
attending: Arpad, Ken, Barry, Todd, Mike, Scott

We reviewed the presentation
- Needs more consistent use of terminology.
  - "building block" and "primitive" are used interchangeably
    - need to change all "primitive" to "building block"
  - primitive is the lowest level module of digital simulators
  - element is the lowest level module of analog simulators
- What do we want to ask the IBIS committee?
  - Maintain the library of building blocks
    - Define building block library
    - Make sure it's mappable to simulators
    - Mechanism to publish and control building block library
    - Place to post templates, less controlled
  - No ANSI specs
- Avoid discussing black box templates for now

AR: Arpad to add formal request on the last slide, other changes
AR: Mike will make an org chart showing template/bb/element hierarchy
    (attached presentation)

We discussed the equation dilemma in Arpad's email
- Uncertain how flexible equation passing is in Verilog-A
- Could use array format as a substitute for node referencing
  - May not be mappable to SPICE engine
- Could bury equations in templates instead of passing them
  - Would result in many more templates
  - Controlling release of templates would be more important
  - More work to determine what is mappable
- Simulator vendors need to help us decide what is mappable

Next meeting: the IBIS summit!