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IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA

http://www.eda.org/ibis/adhoc/interconnect/

Mailing list: ibis-interconn@freelists.org

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Minutes from February 18:

Attendees:
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(* denotes present)
Agilent                    - Radek Biernacki*, John Moore, Ken Wong
Ansoft                     - Denis Soldo, Steve Pytel*
Cadence Design Systems     - Terry Jernberg, Brad Griffin
Green Streak Programs      - Lynne Green
Hewlett-Packard            - Rob Elliott
Intel                      - Michael Mirmak*
Mentor Graphics Corp.      - John Angulo*, Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov
Micron Technology          - Randy Wolff
Sigrity                    - Sam Chitwood, Raymond Y. Chen, Tao Su, Brad Brim
SiSoft                     - Walter Katz*
Teraspeed Consulting Group - Bob Ross*

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No patents were announced.

The team proposed the following changes for the Touchstone 2.0 draft:

p. 19 - check "+" symbol on common mode equations a and b
      - multiply symbol is missing, as is equals sign

p. 20 - Bob: center the equations on the page
      - [Mixed-Mode Order] keywords "and arguments" in both locations

p. 22 - check spacing around ">"

"argument" vs. "values" globally for "legal"

p. 20 - Bob: IEEE rules; commas after "and" globally
      - Radek: not after "a"

p. 28 - Radek: use "Example of Mixed-Mode Transformations" as title

p. 29 - Bob: check mention of mixed-mode "Y- and Z-matrices" 

p. 31 - remove italics on Y-, Z-parameters
      - careful about using bold for matrix content vs. matrix types

p. 32 - Change sentence to clarify Y-parameters are being used in the example

Michael also noted several comments from reflector e-mail:
* frequency-dependent references, complex references raised as potential improvements
* Begin/End Information Section suggested as being too incomplete as described

Michael noted that the issue of unrealistic trace symmetry may be moved to
a future cookbook.  Radek noted that symmetry can be forced.

The team agreed that suggested examples can be moved to a future cookbook.

ARs 
- Michael to check on italics rules in IEEE standards documents