IBIS Quality Teleconference Minutes
DATE: 5 November 2002


>> NOTE NEW TIME FOR FUTURE MEETINGS

  9 AM Eastern Time, 6 AM Pacific Time

ROLL CALL
Adam Tambone Adam.Tambone@fairchildsemi.com
Barry Katz bkatz@sisoft.com
Benjamin P Silva benjamin.p.silva@intel.com
*Bob Ross bob_ross@mentor.org
*Brian Arsenault arsenault_brian@emc.com
*Eckhard Lenski Eckhard.Lenski@icn.siemens.de
Eric Brock ebrock@sisoft.com
Gregory R Edlund gedlund@us.ibm.com
Hazem Hegazy hazem_hegazy@mentorg.com
John Figueroa jfigueroa@apple.com
Katja Koller (Siemens)
Kevin Fisher kfisher@sisoft.com
*Kim Helliwell kimgh@apple.com
*Lance Wang lwang@cadence.com
*Lynne Green lgreen@cadence.com
*Mike Labonte milabont@cisco.com
Peter LaFlamme plaflamm@amcc.com
*Robert Haller rhaller@sisoft.com
*Roy Leventhal Roy_Leventhal@3com.com
Sherif Hammad sherif_hammad@mentorg.com
*Todd Westerhoff twesterh@cisco.com
Tom Dagostino tom_dagostino@mentorg.com
Kazuyoshi Shoji kshohji@hitachi-ul.co.jp
Sadahiro Nonoyama nonoyama@hitachi-ul.co.jp

Everyone in attendance marked by  *

Interested, but have not yet attended:
    Ralf Bruening Zuken ralf.bruening@zuken.de

NOTE: "AR" =3D Action Required.

-----------------------MINUTES ---------------------------

Meeting chaired by Bob Haller.

- Roll Call
- New attendees: Brian Arsenault of EMC Corp. and Lance Wang of=20
Cadence.

- Review of minutes for October 22
- Accepted as written.

- Announcements
           - EIA Call for Patent Disclosure
- No companies declared a patent.

- AR Review
- Bob Haller and Lynne Green working on Docs.
- Barry enlisting people to cover remaining Documentation items.

- Meeting schedule
- Everyone willing to move meeting 2 hours earlier.  Next meeting to=20
be scheduled accordingly.

- PCB EAST Feedback
- People liked what they saw.  There was one issue that generated some=20
serious discussion.  Some discussion of overlap of parser and Quality=20
checks.
- People are eager to see the Documentation.

- Documentation
- Lynne sent out Zip file containing individual documents received,=20
and a summary of who is working on which topics.
- IQ Header section - Kim - received.
- General characteristics, ibischk - Todd - coming.
- Discussion: Mike searched ibischk3, found 911 "printf" strings,
431 are error/warning messages.  May not be practical to maintain
a list of all checks in ibischk.  Bob Ross does not know of any
documentation of ibischk messages.  There are 17 licensees for
ibischk3, 14 companies.
- Need to document what ibischk can be trusted to check, and what
Quality committee needs to address beyond that.
AR: Bob to ask Atul for any documentation for ibischk messages.

- Component - Barry - not completed.
- Model general - Lynne - received.
- Model I-V - Bob - received.
- V-t - Barry -not completed.
- Ramp & waveform - Mike - received.
- Categorizing errors - Eckhard - received.
- Spice/Bench correlation - Greg - received.
- Model limitations - Barry - not completed.
- Clamp curves - Roy - not completed.

AR: Lynne to send email to Bob H. on non-monotonic check table.

Documentation is arriving in many formats, with various amounts of=20
content. Flat text is lowest common denominator for the working=20
document.
The committee will focus on content of the documents not the format.=20
Lynne will accept both Word and text files. Eventually Word, Txt and pdf

will all be available (like the IBIS spec).

AR - Lynne - Also put documents into flat text form for committee=20
review.

AR - ALL - download and read the zipped Docs, be prepared to discuss=20
their preferences for content at the next meeting.

Note: Quality email reflector strips off attachments.  Attachments for=20
posting should be sent to Barry.
Mike proposed that a pointer to IBIS-Quality repository at SiSoft be=20
added to the message trailer to aid in locating the documents - no=20
objections.

Roy - wife Charlotte could provide a Style Guide.

- Opens for new items
- None.

- Plans for next meeting
Continue developing Docs.

- Schedule for next meeting
NOTE NEW TIME!
19 November 2002
9 AM Eastern Time, 6 AM Pacific Time

AR: Kim to update the conference call system.

Meeting ended at 8:45 Pacific Time.

Links:
IBIS Home Page, http://www.eigroup.org/ibis/ibis.htm
IBIS Quality Checklist, http://www.sisoft.com/ibis-quality/checklist/
IBIS Quality Minutes, http://www.sisoft.com/ibis-quality/minutes/
Documentation drafts, http://www.sisoft.com/ibis-quality/docs/,
file=3DQuality Checklist.zip
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