RE: [IBIS] Open Source IBIS Parser


Subject: RE: [IBIS] Open Source IBIS Parser
From: Dodd, Ian (ian_dodd@mentorg.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 14:11:14 PDT


Syed,

Let me clarify my understanding:

The IBIS Open Forum did not think that it was appropriate for them to
attempt to raise funds
and directly employ a contractor to update or replace the s2ibis utility.

I don't think this is incompatible with the Open Forum being supportive of
other groups,
commercial and non-commercial doing the same.

I had to opt out of the Open Forum while this was going on, so please
correct me if I got the
wrong impression

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Syed Huq [mailto:shuq@cisco.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:36 PM
To: shuq@cisco.com; Ross, Bob; lgreen@cadence.com; Dodd, Ian
Cc: ibis@eda.org
Subject: RE: [IBIS] Open Source IBIS Parser

Ian,

I absolutely disagree with the comment:

..."it was not thought appropriate for the Open Forum to compete in
an area where there was at least one commercial tool...."

This implies that in order to get support from the IBIS open forum, the
Open-source group needs to develop a tool were no commercial tool vendor
have ventured before. That does not make any sense.

Syed

>From: "Dodd, Ian" <ian_dodd@mentorg.com>
>To: "'Syed Huq'" <shuq@cisco.com>, "Ross, Bob" <bob_ross@mentorg.com>,
lgreen@cadence.com
>Cc: ibis@eda.org
>Subject: RE: [IBIS] Open Source IBIS Parser
>Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:04:52 -0600
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>
>Syed,
>
>I agree with your sentiments.
>
>A comment on your remark about the involvement of the IBIS Open Forum with
>the s2ibis tool:
>
>The IBIS Open Forum did consider the proposal for them to fund
improvements
>to s2ibis.
>This was rejected, and my recollection is that this was done because it
was
>not thought
>appropriate for the Open Forum to compete in an area where there was at
>least one commercial tool.
>
>I personally don't believe this indicates that members of the Open Forum
do
>not support
>the creation of an improved public domain version of s2ibis, in fact I
>believe
>the opposite is true, members of the Open Forum are generally supportive
of
>the
>improvement of s2ibis by both the commercial and non-commercial sectors
(and
>are
>glad to see that NC STATE University is getting involved in updating
s2ibis)
>
>Ian Dodd
>Mentor Graphics.
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Syed Huq [mailto:shuq@cisco.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:38 PM
>To: Ross, Bob; lgreen@cadence.com
>Cc: ibis@server.eda.org
>Subject: RE: [IBIS] Open Source IBIS Parser
>
>
>The open-source community and IBIS community needs to work together.
>If the IBIS committee says, "..open-source will be a threat to our
>commercial EDA tools.."(we have seen this happen with the s2ibis2)
>then the whole scheme falls apart.
>
>IBIS committee must and should be willing to help the Open-source
>community. I am not saying help with $$ but help with technical
>details. This is fundamental.
>
>Syed
>Cisco Systems, Inc
>
>>>
>>> What puzzles me is that there has been a compelling need for s2ibis2
>>> improvements and s2ibis3 development. A requirements document exists.
>>> Even public baseline code exists. This is needed to address Quality
>>> model issues at the source. This source code is freely available. So
>>> why does not an open-source community exist for s2ibis improvements?
>>>
>>> Bob Ross
>>> Mentor Graphics
>>>
>>
>
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