Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

September 10, 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 02 JUL 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 discuss financial issue of a new version of ibischk with Tammy.
   discussion started. Randy will submit budget request before September.
   Combined into next AR
 - Randy will continue work on estimating budget and then quoting development
   of IBISCHK8 parser development.
   To discuss in this meeting
 - Randy will create the formal bug report using the information that Michael
   sent.
   Done BUG250


New ARs:


Discussion:
a. New bug report from Michael Mirmak to become BUG251.
   Michael summarized the idea that the parser continues to check and report 
   errors on the [Ramp] data when the model includes a Ts4file referenced in 
   the AMI file. Should this check be skipped completely or reported as a note?
b. Parser contract for IBIS 8.0.
   Randy has prepared a preliminary development contract. This might be 
   changed as more bugs are submitted. Randy edited the IBIS version as 
   appropriate in the document. He added the approved list of BIRDs for this 
   IBIS version. There could be additional BIRDs from the editorial committee. 
   BRID229 allows for testing AMI for testing BUG(root name).
   
   Randy changed the listing of BIRDs at the end of the contract to be 
   summaries. All the details of a BIRD are in the external documetns.

   BIRD223.1 (SPIM) has a longer summary, since this type of data is new to 
   IBIS. Some cross-checking is needed to the [Pins] data in the IBIS file. 
   Some checking requirements are in the BIRD. Randy added some additional 
   notes about checks that might be implied, but not necessarily documented in 
   the BIRD. This is a large BIRD. It will require a lot of discussion about 
   what the parser will check, and which results are error, warnings, etc.
   
   BIRD226 (PSIJ Sensitivity) might need some stronger language to make the 
   requirements more explicit. There are some parameters declared as 
   recommended, but seem to be required. Randy will ask editorial task group 
   for recommendations on the required parser checks.

   BIRD 229 (AMI config) has many combinations. It references many files with 
   a lot of requirements. We will need to discuss how much of the external 
   files need to be parsed and checked. We expect that Michael Mirmak will 
   assist in explaining the expected checks.
   

Tabled topics (no discussion without motion):
 - none


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

Meeting ended: 1:07 pm ET

Next meeting 24 SEP 2024