IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 12 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 O'Halloran, Tiburon Design Automation
  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

- Discussion of ??? is tabled.

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New Discussion:

Todd gave a presentation describing serdes concepts and terminology
for us to standardize on.

- Init() call is processing impulse response.
- GetWave() call is processing data stream.

Walter: driver has no idea what the receiver is doing unless there is a
back-channel.
Mirmak: model makers will be using statistical analysis, not building a
real-time functional model.

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