Released Executables for ibischk6 Version 6.1.2


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.

SHA1 digests are shown below for checking the integrity of each official release executable above. Unzip the contents of each ZIP file above into appropriate directories and save the lines below as ibischk6_sha1.txt. Then run "sha1sum -c ibischk6_sha1.txt". The report for each file should be "ok" (may need Unix, Linux, or Cygwin):

aa5486c892745743dfad9e123d63373e8429310e  linux_redhat_32/ibischk6
7641eccdb345178e0053406d18595a91ee955086  linux_redhat_64/ibischk6
2d34e9b65331462646f3403c55b06e05db5abc18  linux_ubuntu_32/ibischk6

15b244675259b7d30af00a3c3bdbdd27c2463df9  osx_32/ibischk6
e41af541f8304d1b3fc3c3ed9451e7b04b40edb1  osx_64/ibischk6

8cea6f38114a2bb85dddc3a1af9c33260cb166b8  win_32/ibischk6.exe
60895631f0bb792056b1492958541b97188d89ac  win_64/ibischk6.exe

Previous Versions of ibischk6 executables exist under:

IBISCHK6 DOCUMENTATION

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

IBISCHK6 V6.1.2

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

The following BUG reports were closed with Version 6.1.2:

BUG172     Incorrect Error Messages for Legal [Pin Mapping] Bus Label Connections
BUG173     Invalid Package Matrix Checks for Wrapped Banded Matrices


Last edited: March 28, 2016