DATE: September 19, 2006
SUBJECT: September 15, 2006 EIA IBIS Open Forum Minutes
GEIA BALLOT ELIGIBILITY
(Must have attended 2 of the last 3 meetings, including Summits)
Member GEIA Eligible (A = Active) -2 -1 Current Meeting
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Apache Design Solutions
Cadence A X X
Cisco A X X
Green Streak Programs X
Intel A X X X
LSI Logic X
Mentor Graphics A X X X
Micron Technology A X X
Siemens AG X
Teraspeed Consulting Group A X X X
Texas Instruments X
VOTING MEMBERS AND 2006 PARTICIPANTS
Agere (Nirav Patel)
Agilent Sanjeev Gupta, Nilesh Kamdar
AMD [Wasim Ullah], Tadashi Arai
Apache Design Solutions Ji Zheng
Applied Simulation Technology Fred Balistreri
Cadence Design Systems Lance Wang
Cisco Systems Syed Huq*, Mike LaBonte,
AbdulRahman Rafiq, Pedo Miran,
Salman Jiva, Gurpreet Hundal,
Todd Westerhoff
Fluent (Chetan Desai)
Freescale (Jon Burnett)
Green Streak Programs Lynne Green*
Hitachi ULSI Systems Kazuyoshi Shoji
Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) (Dan Clementi)
Intel Corporation Michael Mirmak*, Arpad Muranyi,
Stephen Peters, Vishram Pandit
LSI Logic Frank Gasparik, Kim Helliwell,
Praveen Soora
Mentor Graphics John Angulo*, Ian Dodd*, Gary Pratt,
John Shields, Simon Vines,
[Guy de Burgh]
Micron Technology Randy Wolff*
NEC Electronics Corporation Takeshi Watanabe
Samtec (Corey Kimble)
Siemens AG Eckhard Lenski, Manfred Maurer,
Katja Koller, Klaus Huebner,
Heinz-Hartmut Ibowski,
Flavio Maggioni, Roberto Preatoni
Siemens Medical [David Lieby]
Signal Integrity Software Barry Katz, Douglas Burns, Mike Mayer
Walter Katz, Kevin Fisher
Sigrity Sam Chitwood, Raymond Chen
Silego (Joe Froniewski)
STMicroelectronics (Antonio Girardi)
Synopsys Andy Tai, Ted Mido
Teraspeed Consulting Group Bob Ross*
Texas Instruments Otis Gorley, Richard Ward
Toshiba Yasumasa Kondo, Yoshishiro Hamaji
Motochika Okano
Xilinx (Ray Anderson)
ZTE (Shunlin Zhu)
Zuken Michael Schaeder, Ralf Bruening
OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN 2006:
Actel (Prabhu Mohan), Ann Lau
Altera Khalid Ansari, David Lieby
Amkor Technology Nozad Karim
Ansoft Corporation Michael Brenneman
Ashenden Designs Peter Ashenden
Apple Computer [Zhiping Yang]
Betty TV Stephanie Goedecke
Bosch Ingo Doerr, Jurgen Hasch
Cybernet Systems (KAW) Kazuhiko Kusunoki, Azusa Harada
Toshiyo Saito, Keiji Soyama
EFM Ekkehard Miersch
Dell Aubrey Sparkman
Force10 Networks Robert Badal
Free Electron Software Al Davis
GEIA (Chris Denham)
Huawei Technologies (Xiangzhong Jiang)
IBM Lance Thompson
Infineon Radovan Vuletic, Minka Gospodinova
Christian Sporrer, Amir Motamedi
JEITA Atshushi Ishikawa
Leventhal Design Roy Leventhal
Lynguent Andrew Levy
Marvell (Itzik Peleg)
NCSU Paul Franzon
Panasonic Atsuji Ito
Philips Herve Menager
Politecnico di Torino Igor Stievano
Rambus Nirmal Jain
Samsung Heeseok Lee, Il Seong
Silicon Image (Ook Kim)
SimLab Heiko Grubrich
Vectronix AG Luca Giacotto
In the list above, attendees at the meeting are indicated by *.
Principal members or other active members who have not attended are in
parentheses. Participants who no longer are in the organization are in
square brackets.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
The bridge numbers for future IBIS teleconferences are as follows:
Date Telephone Number Bridge # Passcode
October 6, 2006 1-916-356-2663 3 512-1903
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INTRODUCTIONS AND MEETING QUORUM
No new participants.
CALL FOR PATENTS
Michael Mirmak called for any patents or pending patents related to the IBIS
Version 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, or ICM 1.1 specifications. No patents were
declared.
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE AND TREASURER'S REPORT
Michael Mirmak reported that we have received a new request for an ICM parser
purchase. We are well over our revenue target for the year. We are
expecting some invoicing from the DAC Summit. A couple of memberships may
still be in negotiation. There was some discussion on how to handle the
extra revenue. One idea was to spend it on parser development.
REVIEW OF MINUTES AND ARS
Michael Mirmak reviewed the minutes of the August 25, 2006 IBIS Open Forum
teleconference. Michael mentioned that the August 25 minutes contain several
"fixes" to the summit minutes, and that this set of minutes was cross-posted
with the summit minutes. The minutes were approved without changes.
WEB PAGE UPDATES
Syed Huq reported that he is having problems with GEIA on URL issues. He is
unable to get the Chinese IBIS Summit announcement link working. Minor
updates were also made to the roster page. Michael Mirmak took the AR to
alert Chris Denham to the problem.
MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION
No update.
NEW MODELS AVAILABLE, LIBRARY UPDATE
No update.
PRESS UPDATE
Bob Ross noted that in the September 1 issue of EDN magazine, there is a
column by Bonnie Baker of TI that mentions Spice and IBIS models. The
article can be found at the following url:
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6363901.html
MISCELLANY/ANNOUNCEMENTS
None.
OPENS FOR NEW ISSUES
None.
INTERNATIONAL/EXTERNAL PROGRESS
The Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging (EPEP) conference is
October 23-25, 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona. There are sometimes
presentations related to IBIS at this conference. More information on the
conference can be found at the following url:
http://www.epep.org/
EIA/ANSI APPROVAL ACTIVITIES
Randy Wolff had no new news to report on the status of the IBIS 4.2
Specification moving on to the ANSI approval process. Bob Ross pointed out
that GEIA did send out to committee members a link to the official document
approved as GEIA standard EIA-656-B on September 1, 2006.
SUMMITS
- China Summit
The China summit date is finalized as Friday, October 27 in Shanghai at
the Radisson Hotel Shanghai New World. Huawei is the primary sponsor,
with Ansoft, Cadence Design Systems, Intel, Mentor Graphics, Signal
Integrity Software (SiSoft), Sigrity and Synopsys as co-sponsors. The 4th
China Summit announcement went out recently. The China summit presentation
schedule is full. Presentation materials for the China Summit need to be
submitted to Bob Ross and Lance Wang within the next two weeks to give
ample time for the presentation to be printed in the conference book.
- Japan Summit
The Japan IBIS Summit will take place Tuesday, October 31 in Tokyo at the
JEITA offices. The summit is planned from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM followed by
a separate JEITA meeting from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. JEITA is the primary
sponsor, with Cybernet Systems and Synopsys co-sponsoring the event. The
3rd Japan Summit announcement went out recently. The deadline is October
20 for final presentation submittal. It is preferred that the presentation
materials be in English. Bob Ross is expecting closure from the last
sponsor for the Japan Summit shortly.
- Other Events
No update.
Sponsorship opportunities for the China and the Japan IBIS summits are
available, with sponsors receiving free mentions in the minutes, agenda, and
other announcements. Contact the IBIS Board for further details.
IBIS QUALITY TASK GROUP
Bob Ross reported that the checklist numbering has been revised, and a new
checklist will be issued soon. The next meeting will be September 26.
Lynne Green mentioned finding some broken links to quality documents. Lynne
took the AR to send Mike Labonte a note about this.
The link to the quality task group checklist is at:
http://www.eda-stds.org/ibis/quality_wip/
IBIS MODEL REVIEW TASK GROUP
Lynne Green mentioned that no models have come in within the last month, but
she has advertised the model review service on the reflector. She mentioned
a new member from SiSoft joined.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MODELING TASK GROUP
Michael Mirmak reported for Arpad Muranyi that all the notifications were
filed with GEIA to officially start this task group. The task group has
been discussing C-based API vs. AMS approaches for signal based versus
channel based simulations. Also, there has been traffic on the reflector
regarding an AMS approach to peak distortion analysis written by Arpad. A
complete set of the SystemVision project files is available for download.
Task group material can be found at:
http://www.eda-stds.org/ibis/macromodel_wip/
AD HOC TASK GROUPS
Michael Mirmak mentioned that he is still soliciting for people to head up
some new task groups.
NEW ISSUES
Michael Mirmak mentioned that the BIRD list on the IBIS website does not list
at the top level which version of the specification the BIRD was included
nor for what version it is pending. He proposed adding this to the webpage.
Bob Ross agreed that adding another column would be a good addition to this
page.
BIRD97.2: GATE MODULATION EFFECT
Michael Mirmak mentioned that work related to this BIRD may be continued in
the Advanced Technology Modeling task group.
BIRD98: GATE MODULATION EFFECT (TABLE FORMAT)
See BIRD97.2 for discussion related to BIRD98.
IBISCHK4 BUG STATUS
No new BUGs have been filed. There are only 3 BUGs of significant interest,
and one is severe and would be the best candidate for spending money on
parser development to fix. Bob Ross mentioned that Jon Powell may work on
this BUG fix.
ICMCHK1 BUG STATUS
Michael Mirmak reported that a BUG filing was received in the last week. It
is related to use of the Model_pinmap keyword. The parser crashes when
Model_pinmap is empty in a file. Michael suggested it be filed as severe,
high, and to-be-fixed. Lynne Green mentioned that Kelly Green plans to fix
this BUG.
NEW TECHNICAL ISSUES
Michael Mirmak noted that pending issues are gate modulation, ICM issues to
clarify ports versus terminals, ICM links to Touchstone, ICM to IBIS links,
C-based API or AMS alternatives for Multi GHz and high bit count simulations,
and Agilent allowing IBIS to help create a standardized version of Touchstone.
NEXT MEETING
The next IBIS Open Forum teleconference will be held October 6, 2006 from
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM US Pacific Time.
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NOTES
IBIS CHAIR: Michael Mirmak (916) 356-4261, Fax: (916) 377-3788
michael.mirmak@intel.com
Server Platform Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel Corporation
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VICE CHAIR: Syed Huq (408) 525-3399, Fax: (408) 526-5504
shuq@cisco.com
Manager, Hardware Engineering, Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706
SECRETARY: Randy Wolff (208) 363-1764, Fax: (208) 368-3475
rrwolff@micron.com
SI Modeling Manager, Micron Technology, Inc.
8000 S. Federal Way
Mail Stop: 01-711
Boise, ID 83707-0006
LIBRARIAN: Lance Wang (978) 262-6685, Fax: (978) 262-6363
lwang@cadence.com
Senior Member, Technical Staff, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
270 Billerica Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824
WEBMASTER: Syed Huq (408) 525-3399, Fax: (408) 526-5504
shuq@cisco.com
Manager, Hardware Engineering, Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706
POSTMASTER: Bob Ross (503) 246-8048, Fax : (503) 239-4400
bob@teraspeed.com
Staff Scientist, Teraspeed Consulting Group
10238 SW Lancaster Road
Portland, OR 97219
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