IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 27 Feb 2007

Members (asterisk for those attending):
* Ambrish Varma, Cadence Design Systems
  Arpad Muranyi, Intel Corp.
* Barry Katz, SiSoft
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
* Doug White, Cisco Systems
  Ganesh Narayanaswamy, ST Micro
* 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
  Vikas Gupta, Xilinx
  Vuk Borich, Agilent
* Walter Katz, SiSoft

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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
  Verilog version posted. Waiting for Arpad's review.

- Arpad: Write parameter passing syntax proposal for a possible BIRD
  TBD - Seems be to be no one else free to do this.

- Mentor and Cadence will meet to get in synch on the Cadence BIRD.
  Cadence, Mentor, and SiSoft have been meeting.
  Good progress so far.

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New Discussion:

Macromodel documentation:
- Mike has been waiting for Arpad to review hte Verilog documentation
  before writing the VHDL version
- On the other hand it would be nice to call the AR done, so ...

AR: Mike document VHDL macro library and post to web site

Progress in BIRD discussions among the EDA vendors:
- Goals:
  - Produce a syntax definition by end of day tomorrow.
  - Share the updated proposal with 2 IP vendors.
  - Present the new proposal in 2 weeks.
- Michael Mirmak requested an outline of the new proposal:
  - This will give us an idea of how long review will take

AR: EDA vendors provide an outline of new proposal

The meeting ended early, with no other new items presented.

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Next meeting: 05 Mar 2007 12:00pm PT