Meeting date: 20 jun 2006
Members (asterisk for those attending):
*Arpad Muranyi, Intel Corp.
*Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
*Todd Westerhoff, Cisco Systems
*Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems
Paul Fernando, NCSU
Barry Katz, SiSoft
*Walter Katz, SiSoft
Ken Willis, Cadence Design Systems
*Ian Dodd, Mentor Graphics
*Lance Wang, Cadence Design Systems
Richard Ward, Texas Instruments
*Doug White, Cisco Systems
Sanjeev Gupta, Agilent
*Joe Abler, IBM
John Shields, Mentor Graphics
Ambrish Varma, NCSU
Nilesh Kamdar, Agilent
Hemant Shah, Cadence Design Systems
Jillin Tan, Cadence Design Systems
*Shangli Wu, Cadence Design Systems
*C. Kumar, Cadence Design Systems

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Review of ARs:

- no ARs from last week

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Cadence proposal

- Aboute serial link devices
- high level modeling
- focused on algorithms
- interface treats device as black box
- C is "agnostic" about platform
- must have high performance
- accuracy expected
- minimal model development time
- explore at high level
- interopable for different IP vendors
- should plug into measurement vendors
  measure passive things
  complete measurement loop
  enables compliance testing
- chip2chip connections have DSP content
- API:
  - Init
    - optimize channel coefficients
  - GetWave
  - Close
- Init() may not have to do anything, GetWave() could do it.
- Vendors working on this?
  - IBM
- Page 15: parenthesized string passes parameters
  - Parameters documented by each dll
  - Could be XML format to be more universal
- Is having only 3 methods too restrictive? (Init, GetWave, Close)
  - Kumar: This has to be standardized
  - Arpad: IBIS was too structured, we need more flexibility

- Need to make this more standard
  - C has varargs
  - Again, what does SystemC have?

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Next meeting: Tuesday 27 Jun 2006 12:00pm PT