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IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES
Meeting Date: February 7, 2007

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

Mailing list: ibis-interconn@freelists.org

Attendees:
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(* denotes present)
Agilent                    - Radek Biernacki*
Ansoft                     - Andrew Byers, Michael Slavkin*
Green Streak Programs      - Lynne Green*
Intel                      - Michael Mirmak*
Mentor Graphics Corp.      - John Angulo*, Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov
Sigrity                    - Sam Chitwood
Teraspeed Consulting Group - Bob Ross* 

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Next Meeting:
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

               Telephone     Bridge   Passcode
              916-356-2663     2      301-6400

LiveMeeting Details:

  Subject: IBIS Ad Hoc Interconnect Team
  Meeting URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/intel/join
  Meeting ID: NCXMC4
  Meeting Key: SF?N5'Khp


Agenda:
- Call for patent disclosures
- Opens
- Review of updated Touchstone(R) draft 

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No opens were raised.

Review of the Touchstone draft continued.  Bob noted that the square
bracket characters are used in two senses in the document.  This may
not require changes.  Bob also noted that [Version] should not be
required for 1.0 files; only 2.0 should be needed, as a text string
rather than floating point.

Addition of a [Number of Ports] keyword is needed, as the overall
number of ports cannot be inferred from the text's arrangement.
Similarly, either the number of data columns should be specified or
some regularity on carriage returns/line feeds (line lengths) should
be enforced.  Finally, the team noted that the updated reference keyword
should be first, before all other keywords aside from [Version].

Team Objectives:
1) complete ICM-IBIS linking BIRD and any associated changes to the 
   ICM specification
2) update the ICM specification, if needed, to clarify the mapping of 
   ICM nodes to S-parameter ports
3) complete a specification for "Touchstone Plus" or similar 
   industry-standard definition for Touchstone-like files, to include 
   complex impedance references, removal of limits on the maximum number 
   of ports and per-port impedance references