IBIS 9/16/94 Meeting Minutes

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Date: Sep. 22, 1994

From: Will Hobbs (503) 696-4369, fax (503) 696-4210
         Will_Hobbs@ccm2.jf.intel.com
         XTG Modeling Manager, Intel Corp., Chairperson, IBIS Open Forum
         Intel Corporation
         5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 USA
         and
         Derrick Duehren (503) 696-4299, fax (503) 696-4904
         Derrick_Duehren@ccm.jf.intel.com
         Intel Program Manager

Subject: Minutes from IBIS Open Forum Meeting 9/16/94

To:
AT&T Global Info Systems Dave Moxley
Anacad Steffen Rochel
Ansoft Henri Maramis
Atmel Corporation Dan Terry
Cadence Design Sandeep Khanna, C. Kumar
Cadlab Ralf Bruning
Contec Maah Sango
Digital Equipment Corp. Barry Katz*
EIA Patty Rusher
High Design Technology Michael Smith, Dr. Ing. Cosso
HyperLynx Kellee Crisafulli*
IBM Jay Diepenbrock, Joseph Flanigan
IBM-Motorola alliance Lynn Warriner, Hoa Quoc, John Burnett
Integrated Silicon Systems Eric Bracken*
Integrity Engineering Greg Doyle
Intel Corporation Stephen Peters*, Don Telian*, Will Hobbs*
                              Arpad Muranyi*, Derrick Duehren*,
Interconnectix, Inc. Bob Ross*, Scott Bloom*
Intergraph Ian Dodd, David Wiens
IntuSoft Charles Hymowitz
Mentor Graphics Ravender Goyal
Meta-Software Mei Wong, You-Pang Wei, John Sliney
NEC Hiroshi Matsumoto
MicroSim Arthur Wong
National Semiconductor Syed Huq*
North Carolina State U. Steve Lipa, Michael Steer*
OptEM Engineering, Inc. Benny Leveille, Ken Ehn
PC Ware Paul Munsey*
Quad Design Jon Powell*
Quantic Labs Mike Ventham
Racal-Redac John Berrie
Siemens Nixdorf Werner Rissiek, Olaf Rethmeier*
Symmetry Martin Walker
Synopsys, Logic Modeling G. Randy Harr
Texas Instruments Bob Ward*
Thomson-CSF/SCTF Jean Lebrun
UniCAD Canada Ltd. Stephen Lum*
Zeelan Technology George Opsahl, Hiro Moriyasu

CC:
Intel Corporation Randy Wilhelm, Jerry Budelman,
                              Intel IBIS team

In the list above, attendees at the meeting are indicated by *.

Upcoming Meetings: The room and bridge numbers for future IBIS teleconferences
are listed below:
     Date Bridge Number Reservation #
     10/7/94 (916) 356-9999 394217 (THIS IS A NEW NUMBER!)

All meetings are 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT (15:00 to 17:00 UTC). We try to have
agendas out 7 days before each open forum and meeting minutes out within 7
days after. When you call into the meeting, ask for the IBIS Open Forum
hosted by Will Hobbs and give the reservation number.

NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.

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Check-in, Intros, Announcements
There were no new participants.

There were no corrections made to last month's minutes.
BNF Comment: Bob Ross will post BNF (not Bob Ward)...

Will has received confirmed 2.0 parser payment from HP. HyperLynx and Quad
Design said they have sent in their $500 each.

AR Will: Verify above two payments.
AR Derrick: Repost invoice, add beta copies are included in the one-time $500
fee (a letter of intent is OK for beta copies).

New Agenda Item: Gate drive in IBIS model macro

Press Updates: An editor from EDN magazine called Derrick this week to see
how we were doing on the IBIS article. Derrick is redoing the examples, then
it will be sent through Intel MarCom for publishing. Derrick suggested to the
editor that they tie the article to the 2.1 announcement this Fall.

Progress toward enlisting new IC vendors: There was no new public model
availability announced.

Kellee relayed a comment from a customer in regards to Intel Pentium(TM)
processor IBIS models not being available. Will clarified that Intel has
Simplified Electrical Models for the parts, as IBIS was not available when the
PP models were created. Will is leading a program to convert the SEM format
data into IBIS format.

Intel 960 IBIS models are avialable upon customer request to Intel. Intel
expects to post them to vhdl.org within the next month, pending final
validation.

Old AR Will: Track down the DRAM IBIS vendor, see if they will post the
models.

Golden Parser, 2.0
Paul believes he will have the parser done on time (9/30/94). Paul will
distribute both DOS executable and source code by US mail to a mailing list
provided by Will Hobbs (get your 2.0 license checks/letters of intent in the
mail! -- address above)

AR Will: Supply distribution mail list to Paul.
AR Bob Ross: Send details of passed BIRD 19, V_fixture sub-keyword to Paul.

Intel (Stephen P.) will have a sample 2.0 model ready by 9/30, possibly
sooner. Syed will have some 2.0 models ready in November, possibly sooner.

IBIS Librarian
Michael Steer has submitted a draft librarian protocol to ibis@vhdl.org. He
has been checking the /incoming directory and so far nothing relevant has
shown up.

Michael sent a longer, more thorough disclaimer statement to Derrick for legal
review, which is in process.

We decided to have all model postings announced on the reflector before they
are actually posted. This will give others a chance to object if an
unauthorized person tries to post a model.

Spice-to-IBIS Converter
Kellee has had difficulty posting converter files to vhdl.org /incoming.
Kellee to resolve with Michael Steer and Bill denBeste (billd@reprise.com).

Old AR All: Try out the converter and post comments to the reflector. If
nothing else, please send email to Michael. He can use it when seeking
additional ARPA funding.

Gate drive in IBIS model macro
Don Telian asked if simulator vendors can simulate gate-source potential
changes / gate modulation.

AR Simulator Vendors: Can simulator vendors simulate gate modulation? Respond
to the reflector.

2.0 BNF
Bob Ross reported that good progress is being made in polishing the BNF spec.

IBIS General Session (face-to-face)
We will have our next face-to-face meeting the day after ICCAD, Friday
November 11th in San Jose. Agenda suggestions:
   o 2.1 Ratification
   o EIA Affiliation

We need to start making arrangements. Any vollunteers?

1995 Design Automation Conference
No one will be writing papers. Bob Ross suggested ICCAD `95.

Wrap-up, Next Meeting Plans
Our next meeting is 10/7/94.

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Received on Thu Sep 22 16:43:04 1994