Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

May 7, 2024

12:00-13:00 Eastern Time (09:00-10:00 Pacific Time)

ROLL CALL

Siemens EDA                         Randy Wolff *, Weston Beal *,
                                    Arpad Muranyi 
Teraspeed Labs                      Bob Ross 
Zuken USA                           Lance Wang *
Intel Corp.                         Michael Mirmak 
The Mathworks                       Graham Kus 


Everyone in attendance marked by *

NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.

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Randy Wolff conducted the meeting.
Weston Beal recorded the minutes.


Call for IBIS related patent disclosures:
 - None


Review of previous meeting minutes:
Minutes from the 16 APR 2024 meetings were reviewed. Lance Wang moved to
approve the minutes. Weston Beal seconded. Without objection the minutes were
approved.


Call for opens:
   none


AR review:
 - Randy will ask Atul to prepare an invoice for the TSCHK work
   done and invoice was submitted to SAE-ITC

New ARs:
 - Randy will discuss financial issue of a new version of ibischk with Tammy.


Discussion:
a. IBISCHK Bugs page update
   Randy noted that the ibischk bugs on the bug list page have been 
   classified, so asked Lance to update the information on the web page.
   
b. TSCHK2.1.0 Mac executables
   Randy asked David Banas if he would compile tschk for Mac. Since he is 
   working at Keysight, a member, he has access to the source code. Randy 
   commented that we are still waiting for Michael Mirmak to confirm that TS 
   BUG6 (security issue) is fixed in the latest release of tschk source code.

c. IBIS next version 7.3 vs. 8.0 impact on IBISCHK parser development
   Michael Mirmak commented in a different task group meeting that it's about 
   time to schedule a new version of IBIS to include the accepted BIRDs. Randy 
   told him at that time that he should contact Lance to start that process.
   
   There are waiting BIRDs for PI and AMI. Some make changes to the parser, 
   but some don't.
   
   The issue of issue numbering makes a difference in how members are charged 
   for the source code. Since 7.1 and 7.2 added significant features, the 
   members who purchased licenses for version 7 got good value. 7.1 might have 
   been a major version update based on technical additions. On the other 
   hand, the additions waiting now might not be used widely enough to get good 
   adoption of 8.0 as a major version update. Maybe it makes sense to move to 
   8.0 partially to reset the expectations. Weston stated his opinion that the 
   addition of EMD in 7.1 should have justified the version change to 8.0.
   
   Randy will bring up this topic for discussion in the open forum this week 
   and [AR] will discuss it with Tammy, too.


Tabled topics (no discussion without motion):
 - none


Weston moved to adjourn. Lance seconded. Without objection, the meeting ended.

Meeting ended: 12:27 pm ET

Next meeting 21 MAY 2024