IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 09 Oct 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 Microelectronics
* Terry Jernberg, Cadence Design 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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An AR for Ambrish was missed in the previous minutes.  Ambrish was asked
 to complete a Microsoft Windows* version of the Cadence RX executable 
KIT for posting to the website.

Mike Steinberger noted that he completed a BIRD review and sent some 
additional suggestions to the reflector.

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ARs: 

No activity on items other than review of current BIRD text.

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New Discussion:

Arpad distributed a text version of BIRD, after holding an offline 
discussion with Bob Ross regarding IBIS specification style issues.  

Editing was performed "live" on the BIRD, based on comments from the 
participants as documented below.

Arpad:   Minor edits needed on indents for formats and types
Don:     A typo appears on "objects" just after introduction
Bob:     "ex" used improperly in place of "e.g."
Mike:    Alignment of elipses for Model Parameter File should be made 
         consistent

         The Parameter File section now uses Mike's new suggestions for 
         tap descriptions, based on suggestions from Ambrish.  The 
         specification needs to keep tap definitions consistent with 
         other types, but add information.  The name of the tap weight is
         its number, and its value can be applied to the parameter with
         that name.

Ambrish: Using Mike's suggestions, change the Definitions section so that 
         the tap number is no longer called an argument.

Don:     Can tapped delay lines have other than UI spacing?  Is this 
         required?  Mike suggested this is rare, but possible. The BIRD 
         implies alignment with the UI. 

Walter:  Non-UI-aligned tapped delay lines are not precluded.  User-defined
         parameters may override alignment.  However, EDA tool optimization
         is not automatic using user-defined parameters, so this could be a 
         problem for a future BIRD to resolve.

Ambrish: The example text for tx_freq_offset should be changed to 1 0 150.

Bob:     [End Algorithmic Model] should not appear by itself with additional 
         comment.  Examples should not feature comment character at start of
         line.

Arpad:   In Section 10, underlines were inserted under some sections for 
         emphasis.  Numbering in this section to remain the same as shown in
         today's draft.

         Arpad also removed semicolons and reformatted text around areas where
         semicolons appeared.

Mike:    No capitalization of C code.

Arpad will clean up the ending of the document and provide a review copy to the
team.  If no significant comments emerge, he will forward this to Michael for
formal entry as a BIRD.  

Next meeting: 16 Oct 2007 12:00pm PT