IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 13 Feb 2007

Members (asterisk for those attending):
* Ambrish Varma, Cadence Design Systems
* Arpad Muranyi, Intel Corp.
  Barry Katz, SiSoft
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
* Ganesh Narayanaswamy, ST Micro
  Doug White, Cisco Systems
* Hemant Shah, Cadence Design Systems
* Ian Dodd, Mentor Graphics
  Joe Abler, IBM
  John Angulo, Mentor Graphics
  John Shields, Mentor Graphics
  Ken Willis, Cadence Design Systems
  Kumar, Cadence Design Systems
* Lance Wang, Cadence Design Systems
  Luis Boluna, Cisco
* Michael Mirmak, Intel Corp.
* Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems
  Patrick O'Halloran, Tiburon Design Automation
  Paul Fernando, NCSU
* Radek Biernacki, Agilent (EESof)
* Randy Wolff, Micron Technology
  Richard Ward, Texas Instruments
  Sanjeev Gupta, Agilent
  Shangli Wu, Cadence
  Stephen Scearce, Cisco Systems
  Syed Huq, Cisco Systems
* Todd Westerhoff, SiSoft
  Walter Katz, SiSoft
  Vuk Borich, Agilent
  Vikas Gupta, Xilinx

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Call for patent disclosure:

No one declared a patent.

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Opens:

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Review of ARs:

- Mike: update macro library documentation
  Rechecking Verilog version. Arpad not available for review.

- Arpad: Write parameter passing syntax proposal for a possible BIRD
  TBD - Michael Mirmak may jump in and take this one (with help).

- Mentor and Cadence will meet to get in synch on the Cadence BIRD.
  Conference call held yesterday. Another call tomorrow.
  Mentor may travel to the Boston area feb 27-28.
  Requirement is for 2 weeks from today.

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New Discussion:

Electrical model stuff?
- no discussion

DLL vs. EXE?
- no discussion

Scheduling:
- No meeting Feb 20 due to vacations
- There will be a brief status report from the EDA vendors Feb 27th

Task group documents:
- Ganesh asked about minutes and other documents.
- The web site URL is given in the footer of most ibis-macro list emails.

Scoping:
- Bob Ross asked if the proposal would support all possible circuit/signal
  combinations shown in Todd's summit presentation.
- It's easier to support if a standardized, limited approach is taken.
- Todd said we just need to be specific about what the model consumes and
  produces, so the tools will not use models incorrectly.

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Next meeting: 27 Feb 2007 12:00pm PT