IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 05 Dec 2006

Members (asterisk for those attending):
* Arpad Muranyi, Intel Corp.
* Barry Katz, SiSoft
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
* Doug White, Cisco Systems
* Hemant Shah, Cadence Design Systems
* Ian Dodd, Mentor Graphics
* Joe Abler, IBM
* John Angulo
  John Shields, Mentor Graphics
  Ken Willis, Cadence Design Systems
* Kumar, Cadence Design Systems
* Lance Wang, Cadence Design Systems
* Michael Mirmak, Intel Corp.
* Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems
* Patrick ???
  Paul Fernando, NCSU
* Randy Wolff, Micron Technology
* Richard Ward, Texas Instruments
  Sanjeev Gupta, Agilent
  Shangli Wu, Cadence
* Todd Westerhoff, SiSoft
  Walter Katz, SiSoft
  Vuk Borich, Agilent
  Vikas Gupta, Xilinx

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Review of ARs:

- Mike update macro library documentation
  Will do it this week

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New Discussion:

Impulse-reponse vs. Pole-zero:

- Kumar: "One man's pole-zero can be another man's ???"
- Joe: IBM ships S-param models.
- Ian: Pole-zero and S-param are interchangable.
  - Conversion is expensive, but done only once.

Cadence BIRD proposal looks OK so far.
- Should not specify whether full file paths are allowed.

- Todd: this proposal is implementation-specific
  - Why not make it simple? screw the Init() stuff.
  - EDA tool can not know what the allowable parameters are.
  - Make sure we are passing the correct data.
- Kumar: Init() accepts those parameters as a string, but the format
  is unspecified.
- Todd: user will want to know what tap settings were chosen
  No way in API to pass this back out.
- Todd: Init() encodes TX+channel+RX - how to use this?
- "Computer science" issues.

AR: SiSoft will propose changes to API BIRD

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Next meeting: Tuesday 12 Dec 2006 12:00pm PT