IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 3 August 2021

Members (asterisk for those attending):
Achronix Semiconductor:       Hansel Dsilva
Amazon:                       John Yan
ANSYS:                        Curtis Clark
                              Wei-hsing Huang
Cadence Design Systems:     * Ambrish Varma
                              Ken Willis
                              Jared James
Google:                       Zhiping Yang
Intel:                        Michael Mirmak
                              Kinger Cai
                              Alaeddin Aydiner
Keysight Technologies:      * Fangyi Rao
                              Radek Biernacki
                              Ming Yan
                              Todd Bermensolo
                            * Rui Yang
Luminous Computing            David Banas
Marvell                       Steve Parker
Micron Technology:            Randy Wolff
                              Justin Butterfield
Missouri S&T                  Chulsoon Hwang
Siemens EDA (Mentor):       * Arpad Muranyi
SiSoft (Mathworks):         * Walter Katz
                              Mike LaBonte
Teraspeed Labs:             * Bob Ross
Zuken USA:                  * Lance Wang

The meeting was led by Arpad Muranyi.  Arpad Muranyi took the minutes.

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Opens:
  
- Arpad asked if anyone was willing to take the minutes.

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Review of ARs:

Walter:  Send BIRD213.1 draft 3 to ATM for people to review
         - done

Fangyi:  Create BIRD211.3 draft 3 based on last week's discussion
         - done

Bob Ross commented that the draft distributed before the meeting
should not be called BIRD211.4, since BIRD211.3 has not been
submitted to the IBIS Open Forum yet.  The group agreed that the
naming should continue as BIRD211.3 draft_x.

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Call for patent disclosure:

- None.

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Review of Meeting Minutes:

Arpad asked for any comments or corrections to the minutes of the July 27th
meeting.  Ambrish moved to approve the minutes.  Walter seconded the motion.
There were no objections.

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New Discussion:

BIRD211.3 draft3 (distributed as BIRD211.4 draft1 before the meeting):
Fangyi shared the draft and summarized the changes he made since the last
meeting.  Ambrish, Arpad and Bob made a few editorial comments while Fangyi
edited the document.

The group decided to have one more review of the new draft next week and, if no
other issues are found, take a vote to submit the BIRD to the Open Forum.


PAMn BIRD213 discussion:
Walter recalled that the question about removing the mapping related text from
the BIRD had not been decided yet.  Ambrish made a motion to remove those
sections from the BIRD, Fangyi seconded the motion and no one opposed.

Ambrish said that the threshold parameters should be optional.  Walter made
changes accordingly, but this raised additional questions regarding consistency
with the existing threshold parameters in the current specification.  There
was not enough time to finish this discussion.


- Ambrish: Motion to adjourn.
- Walter: Second.
- Arpad: Thank you all for joining.

AR: Walter to send BIRD213.1 draft 4 to ATM for people to review.
AR: Fangyi to send BIRD211.3 draft 4 to ATM for people to review.

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Next meeting: 10 August 2021 12:00pm PT
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IBIS Interconnect SPICE Wish List:

1) Simulator directives