
Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group

31 May 2022

12:00-13:00 EST (09:00-10:00 PST)

ROLL CALL

ANSYS                               Curtis Clark
Cadence Design Systems              Yingxin Sun
Intel Technology                    Michael Mirmak
Micron Technology                 * Randy Wolff
Siemens EDA                       * Weston Beal
MathWorks:                        * Mike LaBonte
Teraspeed Labs:                     Bob Ross
Zuken USA:                        * Lance Wang
SAE ITC                             Michael McNair

Everyone in attendance marked by *

NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.

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Mike LaBonte conducted the meeting.

Call for IBIS related patent disclosures:

- None


Call for opens:

- Mike 


Review of previous meeting minutes:
Minutes from the May 24, 2021 meeting were reviewed.  Randy Wolff moved to approve the
minutes.  Weston Beal seconded.  Without objection the minutes were approved.


ARs:

- AR: Mike LaBonte to send updated BUG228 to Bob Ross
  This was done.
- AR: Bob Ross to draft requirements document for IBISCHK 7.1.1
  Not done yet.
- AR: Weston Beal to prepare presentation on IBIS Quality Specification and checklist
  Not done yet.


NEW ITEMS:

Parser bug reports:
Bob Ross reported that the new BUG288 had not yet been posted.


Parser development:
Weston Beal asked if the same developer had been hired every time.  Mike LaBonte said that
had been the case for quite a few years, but some time ago there had been bidding.  Weston
wondered exactly when the geIbisVersion had been introduced.  Mike was not sure.

Mike asked what remained to be done before initiating a new IBISCHK development..  Randy
Wolff said BUG227 was not yet classified, but it would not be in the next development.  He
felt development could be started any time.


IBIS quality checklist:
Weston Beal said this should be on the agenda for a short discussion each time.  Randy
Wolff suggested looking at what we had in the existing checklist, starting next week.
Mike LaBonte suggested that the Apache POI library could be used to create XLSX checklist
files specific to an IBIS file.  Randy said Micron had made some changes to the checklist.
Weston said the state of the checklist drop-down cells was not saved, and they had to save
PDF files to retain the settings.


Tabled topics (no discussion without motion):
  - IBISCHK security fixes


Weston Beal moved moved to adjourn. Randy Wolff seconded. Without objection the meeting ended.

Meeting ended: 12:19 ET

Next meeting June 7, 2022

