IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 21 July 2009

Members (asterisk for those attending):
  Adge Hawes, IBM
  Ambrish Varma, Cadence Design Systems
  Anders Ekholm, Ericsson
* Arpad Muranyi, Mentor Graphics Corp.
  Barry Katz, SiSoft
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
  Brad Brim, Sigrity
  Brad Griffin, Cadence Design Systems
  Chris McGrath, Synopsys
  David Banas, Xilinx
  Deepak Ramaswany, Ansoft
  Donald Telian, consultant
  Doug White, Cisco Systems
* Eckhard Lenski, Nokia-Siemens Networks
  Essaid Bensoudane, ST Microelectronics
  Fangyi Rao, Agilent
  Ganesh Narayanaswamy, ST Micro
  Gang Kang, Sigrity
  Hemant Shah, Cadence Design Systems
  Ian Dodd, consultant
  Jerry Chuang, Xilinx
  Joe Abler, IBM
* John Angulo, Mentor Graphics
  John Shields, Mentor Graphics
  Ken Willis, Cadence Design Systems
  Kumar Keshavan, Sigrity
  Lance Wang, Cadence Design Systems
  Luis Boluna, Cisco Systems
  Michael Mirmak, Intel Corp.
* Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems
  Mike Steinberger, SiSoft
  Mustansir Fanaswalla, Xilinx
  Patrick O'Halloran, Tiburon Design Automation
  Paul Fernando, NCSU
  Pavani Jella, TI
  Radek Biernacki, Agilent (EESof)
  Randy Wolff, Micron Technology
  Ray Comeau, Cadence Design Systems
  Richard Mellitz, Intel
  Richard Ward, Texas Instruments
  Samuel Mertens, Ansoft
  Sam Chitwood, Sigrity
  Sanjeev Gupta, Agilent
  Shangli Wu, Cadence Design Systems
  Sid Singh, Extreme Networks
  Stephen Scearce, Cisco Systems
  Steve Pytel, Ansoft
  Syed Huq, Cisco Systems
  Syed Sadeghi, ST Micro
  Ted Mido, Synopsys
  Terry Jernberg, Cadence Design Systems
  Todd Westerhoff, SiSoft
  Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov
  Vikas Gupta, Xilinx
  Vuk Borich, Agilent
* Walter Katz, SiSoft
  Zhen Mu, Cadence Design Systems

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Opens:

- Arpad: We should discuss the BIRDs mentioned last week

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Call for patent disclosure:

- No one declared a patent.

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Review of ARs:

- Mike change web page to make items easily linkable
  - In progress
  - The change is to no longer use frames, which when linked open up a
    page with only the subframe, not the whole page.

- Walter email updated IBIS-ISS document to list
  - Sent by email after the last meeting

- Todd ask Synopsys about public posting of the document
  - Walter reports that Todd is working on it

- Arpad write a BIRD to clarify time period accuracy requirements
  - TBD

- Todd: Write IBIS s-param BIRD
  - No update

- Arpad:  Write parameter passing syntax proposal (BIRD draft)
          for *-AMS models in IBIS that is consistent with the
          parameter passing syntax of the AMI models
          - TBD

- TBD:    Propose a parameter passing syntax for the SPICE
          - [External ...] also?
          - TBD

- Arpad:  Review the documentation (annotation) in the macro libraries.
          - Deferred until a demand arises or we have nothing else to do

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New Discussion:

The next meeting will be in 2 weeks due to the IBIS summit next week

Arpad showed Walter's presentation for the IBIS summit
- Arpad made a few editorial changes
- Slide 5:
  - Arpad: What is meant by "pins" here?
  - Walter: They are "ports", could be either pins or pads
- "IBIS-SPICE" was changed to "IBIS-ISS" in a few places
- Slide 7:
  - We added "All elements must be contained inside one or more subcircuits"
- Slide 4:
  - Mike: The title is EMD, but the slide is about IBIS-ISS
  - The title was clarified
- Slide 1:
  - Bob: The presentation venue should be listed
  - Arpad added the venue

AR: Arpad send updated IBIS-ISS presentation to Walter

Arpad asked if there were comments on the IBIS-ISS specification itself
- No comments

Next meeting: 4 Aug 2009 12:00pm PT

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IBIS Interconnect SPICE Wish List:

1) Simulator directives