IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 4 Sept 2007

Members (asterisk for those attending):
* Ambrish Varma, Cadence Design Systems
* Arpad Muranyi, Mentor Graphics Corp.
  Barry Katz, SiSoft
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
  David Banas, Xilinx
  Donald Telian, consultant
* 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:

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Review of ARs:

- SiSoft will propose a new reserved_parameter keyword table
  - TBD

- Write parameter passing syntax proposal for a possible BIRD
  a) Propose a parameter passing syntax for AMI models
  b) IBIS spec should allow parameter value assignment for
     *-AMS using a syntax that is consistent with the
     parameter passing syntax of the AMI models
  c) Allow parameter passing for SPICE [External ...] also?
     - Berkeley SPICE does not handle paraeters at all.
     - Walter proposed handling this with a preprocessor

- Ian: send relevant papers on related IEEE work
  - TBD

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

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New Discussion:

- Cadence AMI toolkit status:
  - Cadence should release this by Friday, 9/6
- Discussion of BIRD proposal:
  - Walter:  Would like a "description" in the reserved parameters, like a README for model
  - Walter:  Recommends each [Model] could have multiple [Algorithmic Model]s...so as to facilitate
	optimization, e.g., with each instance having different settings, etc.
  - Arpad: We probably need another BIRD later on to make the rest of the general IBIS spec compatible with the	
	this current BIRD
  - Walter: Suggests we go ahead and submit this BIRD as it is now, work out issues later	
  - Arpad:  In order to make BIRD robust, need to have compatibility issues worked out between it and the general
	IBIS spec.

AR: Walter:  Send email to distribution list to get feedback on Michael Mirmak's comments


Next meeting: 18 Sep 2007 12:00pm PT