Released Executables for ibischk6 Version 6.1.1


NOTE: Several bugs against IBISCHK6 Version 6.1.0 are now fixed:

In particular, BUG168 "Package Model [* Matrix] Precision Errors" has been found to cause some existing files with [Define Package Model] to fail new checks, even if they previously passed IBISCHK. Some of these are [Capacitance Matrix] diagonal dominance errors for which some tolerance might be allowable, and this is fixed. Also fixed are new [Resistance Matrix] and [Inductance Matrix] checks that erroneously report errors for what may be valid models.

EDA vendors are advised to use IBISCHK6 Version 6.1.1 instead of Version 6.1.0 for product integration.


SOURCE CODE LICENSE

Contact the IBIS Chair if you need the source code. It is priced at $2,500.00. See the license terms below:

EXECUTABLES

Standalone executables are provided. You must download these in a manner allowing you to run the executables with required arguments. No installer is provided. ZIP compressed executables for ibischk6 are available for the following platforms:

* Beginning with RHEL 5 the compiler made automatic stack protection the default. The compiler determines the maximum stack size needed for each function call and inserts code that writes some known garbage data at the end of the stack before the call, then checks it after the call. If it doesn't match, the OS__stack_chk_failed function is called, which exits with an error message. There is a problem running such code on a Linux release that doesn't have that system function. Those releases still exist, RHEL 4.9 was retired only in 2011. IBISCHK started using stack protection in the 5.1.4 version, 5.1.3 and earlier did not have it. This compilation returns to not using stack protection, and should be compatible with a wide range of Linux releases.

** Some differences might exist from the 32-bit compilation. For example, The "... equivalent load applied to the model's I-V tables ..." for W1503 calculates 1.42V on 64 bit machines and 1.43V on 32 bit machines for the same test case.

Previous Versions of ibischk6 executables exist under:

IBISCHK6 DOCUMENTATION

When “ibischk6” is run with no arguments, IBISCHK6 prints this help message:

IBISCHK6 V6.1.1

IBISfile validation:
This program has been provided free to the electrical
engineering community by the IBIS Open Forum.  The
purpose of this program is to validate that the contents
of ASCII device data in a file specified conform to the 
IBIS specification.
Usage: ibischk6       
     : ibischk6  -ebd 
     : ibischk6  -pkg 
     : ibischk6  -ami 
Usage: ibischk6  -caution -numbered      
     : ibischk6  -caution -numbered -ebd 
     : ibischk6  -caution -numbered -pkg 
     : ibischk6  -caution -numbered -ami 
The flags prior to the file name can be in any order, and the -caution and/or
-numbered flags are optional.

One (and only one) file name argument must be provided to perform checking, and the file name extension must be consistent with the file type flag. Independent .ebd, .pkg and .ami file checking is done using the -ebd, -pkg and -ami flags. The -caution flag produces additional Caution messages for all [IBIS Ver] versions. The -numbered flag produces Error, Warning, Notes, and Caution messages with four digit numbers following E, W, N, and C respectively.

IBISCHK6 MESSAGE DOCUMENTS (Work In Progress)

IBISCHK6 BUGS AND ENHANCEMENTS

Versions 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 of ibischk6 support IBIS Version 6.0. Version 6.1.0 of ibischk6 supports IBIS Version 6.1. See the IBISCHK BUG page for full details on bug history, or to report a bug or enhancement.

The following BUG reports were closed in ibischk6 Version 6.0.1:

BUG157     E5118 When Repeater Input Models Have Multiple Executable Lines
BUG158     Disable Undocumented -etc Flag for Added Multi-Lingual Checks

The following BUG reports were closed with Version 6.1.0:

BUG151     Checking of (-) Diagonal Entries in RLC [Package Model] Matrices
BUG155     Warning Message for Vinh < Vinl
BUG159     Incorrect String Arguments Accepted for IBIS-AMI Parameters
BUG160     Eliminate Compile and Link Errors with Debug Enabler IBIS_PRINT
BUG161     Table and Format as Model_Specific Parameter Names Causes Errors
BUG162     Ibischk6 Source Code Cleanup

ibisch6 Version 6.1.0 support IBIS Version 6.1 and implements the following BIRDs:

BIRD150    IBIS-AMI New Reserved Parameters for Dependency Tables (no parser check)
BIRD155.2  New AMI API to Resolve Dependent Model Parameter
BIRD167.1  Table Corrections for Tx Jitter Parameters and Ignore_Bits (Specification correction)
BIRD168.1  Handling of Overclocking Caused by Delay in Waveform Tables
BIRD169.1  DLL Dependency Checking (no parser check)
BIRD170    Delete Extra Paragraph for Ports under [External Circuit](Specification correction)
BIRD171.3  Clarify that Empty Root Name is Not Permitted in AMI Files
BIRD172.2  Extend Multilingual Parameter and Converter_Parameter Rules
              (PARTIAL IMPLEMENTATION - Spaces in parameter file lines
               incorrectly issues Error messages, to be fixed in the
               next release)
BIRD173.3  Package RLC Matrix Diagonals
BIRD174.1  Quote Character Clarifications (Specification correction)
BIRD175.3  Extending IBIS-AMI for PAM4 Analysis
BIRD176    Power Pin Package Modeling
BIRD177    [Initial Delay] Keyword for Submodels and Driver Schedules
BIRD178.3  Specifying Buffer Directionality for AMI

The following BUG reports were closed with Version 6.1.1:

BUG163     Improper Handling of [Alternate Package Models]
BUG164     Model_Specific (Usage Dep) Parameter Error Not Issued for AMI_Ver "6.0"
BUG165     No Error for Executable line direction Mismatches under [Algorithmic Model]
BUG166     No Error IBIS-AMI Executable Parameter_File Without .ami Extension
BUG167     Missing or Faulty Modulation "PAM4" Checks
BUG168     Package Model [* Matrix] Precision Errors
BUG169     No Error for Package Model [Capacitance Matrix] Positive Off-Diagonals
BUG170     Compilation with Parse_SupressBanners() Causes Implicit AMI_Ver "5.0" Error 
BUG171     Below [IBIS Ver] 6.1, I/O [Model]s With [Algorithmic Model] Executable Fail

Last edited: January 12, 2016