Minutes, IBIS Quality Committee
November 9, 2004
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 408-902-7868 or 866-902-7868
Meeting access: Meeting ID: 42477825
ROLL CALL
Adam Tambone
Barry Katz
Benny Lazer
Benjamin P Silva
*Bob Ross
Brian Arsenault
Eckhard Lenski
Eric Brock
Gregory R Edlund
Hazem Hegazy
John Figueroa
John Angulo
Katja Koller
Kevin Fisher
*Kim Helliwell
Lance Wang
Lynne Green
*Mike Labonte
Peter LaFlamme
*Robert Haller
Roy Leventhal
Sherif Hammad
Todd Westerhoff
Tom Dagostino
Kazuyoshi Shoji
Sadahiro Nonoyama
Everyone in attendance marked by *
NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.
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Bob Haller conducted the meeting.
- Review of minutes for October 5, 2004
Minutes approved as written
- Announcements
EIA Call for Patent Disclosure: No company declared a patent
- AR Review
AR: Mike to reword 5.10,5.11 and Publish to IQ list (DONE)
AR: Bob to reword 5.8,5.9 and publish to IQ list (DONE)
AR: Kim checking wording (DONE)
AR: Bob - draft email to ibis list to request beta testers of IQ list and
suggestion use by model review committee (DONE)
- Opens for new items
Discussion - IQ committee possible next steps
1. Automation of Checklist
2. File Bug reports (enhancements) for missing checks
3. Push for acceptance at companies
- Documentation Updates
Beta documentation available and pointer emailed to Open forum reflector for companies to start beta testing.
Email received from Mirmak that some model creators are using a checklist (Actel).
Additionally Bob Ross mentioned that analog devices also is using a checklist.
Committee members noted that numerous companies have there own internal checklist.
Pushing for acceptance of a common industry checklist is the major goal of the IQ effort.
Mike believes it is important to automate the checklist generation to minimize manual intervention
Mike volunteered to review the list of checks and determine which ones could be
entered as bugs to the parser. This list will be reviewed at the next meeting.
Eventually we could divide up the bugs/enhancement reports, write and submit them among the committee members.
This can be a time consuming task depending on the complexity of the bug/enhancement request.
There was consensus for committee members to contact at least one company and encourage them to beta test the checklist.
There was agreement to set a pointer from the EIA IBIS page to one spot in the SiSoft IBIS Quality Website
where companies can download the IQ checklist kit. While there are pointers and a kit a little more work here
was proposed, to enable he IQ committee to edit and posting updates.
Representation of committee at IBIS open forums can help 'get the word out'.
Bob Ross and Haller generally attend open forums, but will try to make converted effort to have representation at these meetings.
AR: Mike to generate straw horse list of checks to submit as bugs to parser
AR: Team members contact one company to beta test checklist
Note: Meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month
Next meeting:
December 7, 2004
11-12 AM EST (8-9 AM PST)
Phone: 408-902-7868 or 866-902-7868
Meeting access: 42477825
Meeting ended at 12:05 AM Eastern Time.
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Robert J. Haller (rhaller@sisoft.com)
Principal Consultant
Signal Integrity Software Inc.
6 Clock Tower Place, Suite 250
Maynard, MA 01754
Phone: (978) 461-0449, ext 15
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