IBIS Macromodel Task Group

Meeting date: 26 May 2020

Members (asterisk for those attending):
Achronix Semiconductor      * Hansel Dsilva
ANSYS:                        Curtis Clark
                            * Wei-hsing Huang
Cadence Design Systems:     * Ambrish Varma
                              Ken Willis
                            * Jared James
Intel:                      * Michael Mirmak
Keysight Technologies:      * Fangyi Rao
                              Radek Biernacki
                              Ming Yan
                              Todd Bermensolo
                              Stephen Slater
Marvell                       Steve Parker
Mentor, A Siemens Business: * Arpad Muranyi
Micron Technology:          * Randy Wolff
                            * Justin Butterfield
SiSoft (Mathworks):         * Walter Katz
                              Mike LaBonte
Teraspeed Labs:             * Bob Ross
Zuken USA:                  * Lance Wang 

The meeting was led by Arpad Muranyi.  Justin Butterfield took the minutes.

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Opens:

- None.

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Review of ARs:

- Walter to create BIRD201.1_draft5 with today's changes and email it to ATM.
  - Done.

- Bob to add his editorial changes to draft5 to create bird201.1_draft6.
  - Done.

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Call for patent disclosure:

- None.

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Review of Meeting Minutes:

Arpad asked for any comments or corrections to the minutes of the May 19
meeting.  Randy moved to approve the minutes.  Bob seconded the motion.
There were no objections.

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New Discussion:

BIRD201 Back-channel Statistical Optimization:
Walter had sent a draft with the updates as requested, and he suggested to 
wait for Radek to confirm if this is sufficient.  Arpad stated Bob also made 
some changes.  Bob noted he has additional comments and questions on the BIRD.

Bob moved the AMI_Impulse function and arguments definition text to section 
10.2.3.  Arpad asked if the first sentence under impulse_matrix is missing the 
word "as".  Bob made this correction.

Bob moved the introductions to section 10.9.  He suggested to change the first 
paragraph to include BCI_Training_Mode.  Bob commented a "List" with a single 
value is valid syntax, and he has added this to the Allowed Formats.  Randy 
asked if Impulse and GetWave need to be in quotes in the definition section.  
Bob replied these should be in quotes, as well the syntax word "Both" should 
also be in quotes.

Bob noted some of the sentences in the usage rules section are wordy, and he 
suggested to simplify these sentences to begin with "In order to run".

Bob noted, in the repeater sections, there is a set of flow instructions 
without headings, and he added headings that can be referred to by name.  Bob 
also added a heading for section 10.9.4.

Bob stated BCI_Training_Mode was added to both the tables.  And the first 
supported version is listed as IBIS 7.1.  Bob noted there is no heading for 
the introduction section, but to add one, we would have to renumber the 
sections and their references.

Randy asked if Radek still needs to review these changes.  Walter noted the 
changes from Radek had to do with the states: "Converged", "Error", and 
"Failed".  The question is what is the difference between "Failed" and 
"Error".  Walter noted that both have the same description currently.  Arpad 
commented "Error" could be a syntactical error, and "Failed" means it did not 
converge.  Arpad suggested to change the order of 5.b and 5.c.  Bob made this 
change.  Randy asked if "Simulation" should be capitalized and suggested to 
make it lower case.  Bob corrected this.

Bob will send out bird201.1_draft7.  Randy stated we could try to submit this 
to the IBIS Open Forum for introduction at the Friday June 5th meeting.   


BIRD198 Keyword additions for On-Die PDN Modeling:
Randy had received comments from Bob and Arpad, and he plans to make changes 
based on these changes.  Randy will then send the draft back to the BIRD 
authors to issue an updated draft.


BIRD181.2_draft2:                              
Arpad asked if there are any updates on BIRD181.2.  Bob replied he does not 
yet have an update.


- Randy: Motion to adjourn.
- Ambrish: Second.
- Arpad: Thank you all for joining.


AR: Bob to send out bird201.1_draft7.

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Next meeting: 2 June 2020 12:00pm PT
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IBIS Interconnect SPICE Wish List:

1) Simulator directives
