IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 26 Jun 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
  Essaid Bensoudane, ST Microelectronics
  Ganesh Narayanaswamy, ST Micro
* Hemant Shah, Cadence Design Systems
* Ian Dodd
  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
  Mike Steinberger, SiSoft
  Patrick O'Halloran, Tiburon Design Automation
  Paul Fernando, NCSU
* Radek Biernacki, Agilent (EESof)
* Randy Wolff, Micron Technology
  Ray Comeau, Cadence Design Systems
  Richard Ward, Texas Instruments
  Sanjeev Gupta, Agilent
  Shangli Wu, Cadence
  Stephen Scearce, Cisco Systems
  Syed Huq, Cisco Systems
  Syed Sadeghi, ST Micro
* 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:

- None

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Review of ARs:

- Arpad: Review the new macro library files.
  - TBD

- Arpad: Write parameter passing syntax proposal for a possible BIRD
  - TBD

- EDA vendors clarify "electrically isolated" in BIRD
  - Deferred

- Arpad and Michael get specific data on the non-linear behavior problem
  - Just got a slide set
  - Still need to determine what can be shared

- Mike drop Outlook event for these meetings
  - Done

- Todd update summit presentation based on feedback
  - Done

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New Discussion:

Status of draft AMI BIRD:
- Todd declared that the BIRD is good enough to prove concept.
- Arpad brought up timetables:
  - There will be no meeting next week.
  - Arpad is concerned about the BIRD timetable
  - People should review the BIRD and give feedback before next meeting.
- Todd felt that we may not need regular ibis-atm meetings:
  - We need to have proof of concept before going to IBIS open forum.
  - There may be a lot of discussion within that larger group, and it
    will go smoother if we can prove the concept.
  - We would go to the open forum probably in middle of September.
  - A problem is that this coincides with the Asian summit.
- Arpad asked if the proof of concept will be a real model:
  - What will it look like?
  - Todd asked which vendor can provide a model without an NDA?
  - Hemant said we need to publish a correlatable reference model.
    - It should be an open source model, that works on multiple platforms.
    - It would be very simple on the inside, but will exercise the API.
  - Walter felt that we need both proposals.
- Walter said that the BIRD draft document should be under revision control.
  - Arpad pointed out that there is a BIRD revision numbering system.
    - But we can't get a BIRD number until we go to open forum
  - The need here is to have revision control before it becomes a formal BIRD.
- Bob asked if Rx_clock_PDF can be input-only:
  - Can Rx_Sensitivity be both Info and InOut?
  - Walter said that only Executable allows Multiple use.
  - Walter suggested that this level of detail needs to be resolved by email.

- We took a roll call vote:
  - Is the AMI BIRD proposal ready to move forward into testing?
  - One vote per company:
    - Arpad Muranyi, Intel Corp.            Yes
    - Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group  Yes
    - Hemant Shah, Cadence Design Systems   Yes
    - John Angulo, Mentor Graphics          Yes
    - Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems           Yes
    - Radek Biernacki, Agilent (EESof)      Yes
    - Randy Wolff, Micron Technology        Yes
    - Todd Westerhoff, SiSoft               Yes
  - The vote passed

AR: Ambrish send draft AMI BIRD 1.0 for Mike to post on web site
AR: Hemant will publish an open source reference model by Jul 17


AMI BIRD draft document format:
- The IBIS committee normally accepts BIRDs in plain TXT format.
- The document will be in DOC format for now.
- Todd suggested that materials from recent summit presentations could be
  integrated into the document.
- Bob said we should not go too far with this until we know what the IBIS
  committee will accept.
- Todd said it can be converted to TXT easily.
- Walter said that pictures are extremely useful though.

AR: Ambrish include page numbers in AMI BIRD footer and revision table

When will our next meeting be?
- Walter suggested that the group could still meet, but we should start
  talking about our next project.
- Todd suggested we should evaluate Jul 9 whether to have a Jul 10 meeting.
- Arpad may be travelling on the 10th

Next meeting: 10 July 2007 12:00pm PT