Subject: [IBIS] Minutes 8/9/02
From: Ross, Bob (bob_ross@mentorg.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 13:43:36 PDT
To All:
Because of some mailing difficulties, I am sending this out
for Guy de Burgh.
Bob Ross
Mentor Graphics
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DATE: 08/13/02
SUBJECT: August 9, 2002 EIA IBIS Open Forum Meeting Minutes
VOTING MEMBERS AND 2002 PARTICIPANTS LIST:
Ansoft Corporation (Eric Bracken)
Apple Computer Kim Helliwell
Applied Simulation Technology Fred Balistreri, Norio Matsui
Cadence Design Lynne Green*, Patrick dos Santos, Lance Wang
Cisco Systems Syed Huq, Abdulrahmun Rafiq, Zhiping Yang
Cypress Semiconductor (Rajesh Manapat)
Huawei Technologies (Jiang Xiang Zhong)
IBM Greg Edlund, Pravin Patel
Innoveda (Merged with Mentor John Angulo*, Guy de Burgh*, Steve Gascoigne
Graphics)
Intel Corporation Stephen Peters, Arpad Muranyi*, Will Hobbs,
Pete Block, Ben Silva, Tony Lewis,
Michael Mirmak
LSI Logic [Larry Barnes], Frank Gasparik
Matsushita (Panasonic) Atsuji Ito
Mentor Graphics Bob Ross*, Ian Dodd*, Mike Donnelly,
Matt Hogan, Sherif Hammad, Tom Dagostino,
Eric Rongere, Karine Loudet
Micron Technology Randy Wolff
Mitsubishi Pat Hefferan
Molex Incorporated Gus Panella
Motorola Rick Kingen
National Semiconductor Milt Schwartz
NEC Corporation (Akimoto Tetsuya)
North East Systems Associates (Edward Sayre)
Philips Semiconductor (D.C. Sessions)
Quantic EMC (Mike Ventham)
Siemens (& Automotive) AG Helmut Katzier, Katja Koller, Eckhard Lenski
Signal Integrity Software Barry Katz*, Walter Katz, Robert Moles,
Daniel Nilsson, Kevin Fisher, Steve Coe,
Wiley Gillmor, Douglas Burns, Eric Brock,
Sigrity Raj Raghuram, Bob Haller*
SiQual [Scott McMorrow], Dave Macemon, Rob Hinz
Texas Instruments Thomas Fisher, Jean-Claude Perrin
Teraspeed (Scott McMorrow)
Time Domain Analysis Systems Steve Corey, Dima Smolyansky
Via Technologies (Weber Chuang)
Zuken (& Incases) Caroline Legendre, Ralf Bruening
OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN 2002:
3Com (& CommWorks) [Roy Leventhal], James Goshorn
Actel Prabhu Mohan
Agilent Herbert Lage
Airbus Claude Huet
Alstom Transport Luca Giacotto
Apt Software Atul Agarwal
Astrium Olivier Prieur
Bee Technologies Corporation Tsuyoshi Horigome
Brocade Communications Robert Badal
Compaq Shafier-ur-Rahman
EADS CCR Alix de la Villeguerin
EFM Ekkehard Miersch
EIA [Cecilia Fleming], Chris Denham*
EMC Corporation (Brian Arsenault)
Fairchild Semiconductor Adam Tambone
Force Computers Roger Sukiennik
Harman/Becker Automotive Hartmut Exler
Systems
Japan Electronics and Kiyomi Daishido
Information Technology
Industries Association
(JEITA)
Leventhal Design and Roy Leventhal*
Communication
National Institute of Applied Sebastian Calvet (& Motorola), Etienne
Sicard,
Science (INSA) Stephane Baffreau
Northrup (Litton) Robert Bremer
Sagam SA Quang Ngo, Matthieu Fontaines
Shindengen Elecric Mfg. Co. [Tsuyoshi Horigome]
Sintecs Hans Klos
STMicroelectronics Fabrice Boissieres
Synopsys (Avanti) (Hailong Wang)
TDK Yoshikazu Fujishiro
Thales Saverio Lerose
Tyco Electronics (Tim Minnick)
UTMC Greg Haynes
Xilinx Susan Wu, J.L. de Long
Independent Larry Barnes
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members or other active members who have not attended are in parentheses.
Participants who no longer are in the organization are in square brackets.
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-------------------------------- MINUTES -----------------------------------
INTRODUCTIONS AND MEETING QUORUM
Stephen Peters was on vacation. Bob Ross conducted the meeting on Lynne
Green's request due to a sore throat. Bob noted that we had a quorum based
on five participants.
(Bob Haller called in for the first time from Signal Integrity Software -
SiSoft.)
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE AND TREASURER'S REPORT
Lynne Green reported that we are steady at 31 paid members. Several
memberships or reconciliation of paid memberships are still pending with EIA
records.
REVIEW OF MINUTES AND AR'S
The minutes of the July 19, 2002 meeting were approved without change.
The ARs were discussed during the meeting.
MISCELLANY/ANNOUNCEMENTS
Per EIA legal guidelines Bob Ross made a call for any companies to disclose
any patents or pending patents that may bear upon the IBIS version 4.0
standard. This is to avoid future (legal) issues concerning patented
features within a standard. Chris Denham commented that the patent must be
declared and made publicly available before the standard is issued. Bob
commented that we had received such notification once before in the past.
This call for patent disclosure will become a standard part of every
meeting.
No companies declared a patent.
PRESS AND WEB PAGE UPDATES
Bob Ross reported that Syed Huq updated the Specs and Roster pages. He also
updated the Support link and replaced the Version 4.0 WIP front page link
with the Quality Checklist WIP link. As Roy Leventhal noted, we need to
clean up the Roster. Syed will issue a message for updates to the
reflector.
Non-member participants who do not respond may have their listing removed.
Some listings have already been updated or removed.
NEW MODELS AVAILABLE, LIBRARY UPDATE
Roy Leventhal reported no changes or updates.
OPENS FOR NEW ISSUES
Lynne Green noted that the IBIS futures and connector working group report
will be discussed during the technical portion of the meeting. (This was
left off of the Agenda by mistake.)
(Also, during the administrative portion of the meeting, Bob Ross discussed
early planning for the next IBIS Summit Meeting on October 17, 2002.)
INTERNATIONAL/EXTERNAL PROGRESS
- IEC 62014-3 (ICEM) Integrated Circuit Electromagnetic Model Proposal
(formerly, IEC 93/67/NP IBIS and EMC Simulation) - Stephen Peters needs
to review the some comments on the Cookbook and Report document.
IBIS VERSION 4.0 ACTIVITIES
Lynne Green reported that she is working on the Request for Quote for the
IBIS Version 4.0 parser. Any commercial entity can provide a bid. Bids
will be evaluated on price, delivery, company performance, and other
relevant criteria.
As Bob Ross previously reported, Version 4.0 documents have been uploaded,
but the 00readme.txt still needs to describe the changes.
IBIS QUALITY COMMITTEE
Barry Katz reported that the IBIS Quality committee met on July 30, 2002.
A list of keywords and a definition of "Level 0" quality has been developed.
Level 0 contains things that can be checked by a parser, and checks for
compliance with the IBIS standard but not correctness of the data. The goal
is to present this at the PCB East IBIS Summit meeting. The next meeting is
scheduled August 13, and every two weeks thereafter.
IBIS MODEL REVIEW COMMITTEE DISCUSSION
Bob Ross reported that he has distributed a model from Texas Instruments to
the IBIS Review Committee. Lynne Green will take over the pre-screening
and distribution of models.
NEW ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES
John Angulo reported normal Majordomo activity.
PCB CONFERENCE EAST IBIS SUMMIT MEETING (New agenda item)
Bob Ross reported that Stephen Peters, Lynne Green and he need to do some
preliminary planning for the PCB East IBIS Summit Meeting scheduled on
Thursday, October 17, 2002, hosted by North East Systems Associates (NESA).
The date may need to be shifted since the PCB East Conference has shifted
the exhibit dates to Wednesday and Thursday.
AR: Lynne, Bob and Stephen contact the PCB East Committee concerning trade
show dates to set the IBIS Summit Meeting date and issue an announcement.
BIRD74.1 - EMI Parameters
Guy de Burgh reported no update. Bob Ross indicated that he and Guy may
work
on BIRD74.1 next week in preparation for the next meeting.
BIRD75.2 - Multi-Lingual IBIS Model Support
BIRD77.1 - Differential Subparameter Additions
Bob Ross reported that BIRD77.1 was issued with some improvements suggested
at the July 19, 2002 meeting for a diagram and examples. Bob also commented
that he has become aware of several private comments. Arpad just completed
a thorough review and provided a nineteen point list for Bob's preview.
Most of the remaining discussion addressed these comments to clarify and
possibly resolve some of them before issuing them to the IBIS reflector
As result of the technical nature of the comments, Bob and others expected
the vote to be deferred.
In one comment, Arpad questioned if the .LIB statement was supported. Ian
Dodd thought it did not exist in Berkeley 3F4 SPICE. The .INCLUDE statement
is the normal way to add process variations in models. Bob state that
the Corner mechanism would be suitable for the .INCLUDE method. Some
commercial SPICE versions have .LIB, so the issue is still open on this
concern.
Arpad suggested [External Model] be moved up to the same level as [Model].
Bob stated that this make sense on one hand, but might be hard to document
within the IBIS document since [Model] for backwards compatibility and
that it might require repeating some common write-ups. Roy Leventhal asked
about using HTML and hot links for common write-ups. Ian Dodd and others
noted that it makes the document hard to read off line. Roy will ask EIA
whether hot links are used and are acceptable.
Bob commented that Lynne Green had asked at the previous meeting whether
more corners than Typ, Min, Max could be supported. Bob's response at that
time was to build extra models to fill in different Min and Max conditions.
Lynne gave a further example - minimum strength PMOS for pullup, maximum
strength NMOS for pulldown. Arpad also added that different voltage and
temperature effects could be modeled. An N-sigma set of models could be
issued.
Arpad suggested scaling parameters as a possible solution. Arpad also asked
bout passing in parameters to the model - such as temperature. Lynne added
that support for arbitrary parameters would be useful. After some
discussion, Roy noted that no one model can do everything. Bob suggested
that he assumed parameter passing would be handled within the constraints
of the external language. Parameter passing rules may differ between
languages (AMS versus some SPICE), making a common rule hard to specify.
Bob cautioned that the issue of parameter passing might be bigger than can
be addressed in BIRD75.2. This may be solved within each EDA tool.
Arpad questioned in his e-mail whether C_comp was still required. He noted
some extended cases where [External Model] may model more advanced C_comp
behavioral extensions or differential C_comp. Bob stated that the existing
IBIS rules would require C_comp for consistency and simplicity, even if it
is overridden. C_comp could be just set to 0.
In another comment Arpad stated that a strong note is needed to caution
against using SPICE .GLOBAL variables needs to be documented because of
unintended interactions with other SPICE models.
Bob noted that Al Davis asked for an example we discussed providing an AMS
example of an adaptive terminator. Bob wondered if a set of examples was
really what was intended. A pseudo-example is used within the BIRD to
show some calling syntax.
Arpad encouraged everyone to actively participate to provide more input and
viewpoints for an active review.
AR: Roy Leventhal to contact Chris Denham to see if there is an EIA policy
on hot links within a specification document. Bob noted that it might be
necessary to have some way to do "in-line" printing
AR: Lynne Green will include a link to the SPICE 3F5 documentation in the
Minutes.
http://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/Electronics2/userguide/
AR: Bob Ross to make an AMS example available.
Arpad will issue the list to the IBIS reflector for further review and
discussion. The discussion will continue at the next meeting on BIRD75.2
and BIRD77.1, and a vote will be scheduled.
IBIS FUTURES AND CONNECTOR WORKING GROUP REPORT
Lynne Green reported that the IBIS futures and connector working group meet
on August 1, 2002 for further refinement. The next meeting needs to be
scheduled when people are again available.
IBISCHK3 & BUG TRACKING STATUS
Bob Ross reported that several draft BUG reports have come in for an initial
review.
Bob Haller stated that he is planning to issue a BUG report concerning
non-monotonic Warning messages. He discussed briefly the need to do
non-monotonic checking based on the sum of the tables, not just individual
tables. He mentioned that about three other pending BUG reports have been
divided among Quality Committee members.
Lynne Green stated that she also has a pending draft BUG report. Arpad
Muranyi added that he also has a test case that may be related to the
closed BUG57 causing a false waveform mismatch error. The data conditions
are extreme, and Bob Ross is still considering whether this re-opens BUG57
or should be documented as a new BUG. So a total of up to six BUG reports
are pending.
NEXT MEETING:
The next teleconference meeting will be on August 30, 2002 from 8:00 AM to
10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time. Votes on updates to BIRD75.2 and BIRD77.1
are scheduled.
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