Re: IBIS standard inconsistency

Dear Stephen M. Nolan,

Section three of the specification does say:

| 1) The content of the files is case sensitive, except for reserved
| words and keywords.

and:

| 6) Keywords must be enclosed in square brackets, [], and must start in
| column 1 of the line. No space or tab is allowed immediately after the
| opening bracket '[' or immediately before the closing bracket ']'. If
| used, only one space (' ') or underscore ('_') character separates the
| parts of a multi-word keyword.

So both forms you mentioned are legal. Why the text of the specification
mixes the two is anyone's guess.

Best regards,
Matthew Flora

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Nolan" <s-nolan1@ti.com>
To: <ibis-users@eda.org>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: IBIS standard inconsistency

> In the IBIS standard, the keywords [IBIS Ver] and [File Rev] appear to the
the
> only keywords that have capitalized words other than the first word (the
word
> IBIS being completely capitalized accepted as an acronym). All other keyword
> have the first word capitalized followed by the other words lower case. Eg.
> [Comment char], [File name], [Voltage range]....
>
> Why is there an inconsistency in the style of these keywords?
>
> Also, some multiple-word keywords use an underscore between words instead of
a
> space. Eg. [GND_clamp], [POWER_clamp].
>
> Again, why the inconsistency?
> --
> Regards,
> Stephen M. Nolan
>
Received on Mon Jul 31 07:48:19 2000