From: ibis-interconn-bounce@freelists.org on behalf of Mirmak, Michael
[michael.mirmak@intel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:14 AM
To: ibis-interconn@freelists.org
Subject: [ibis-interconn] IBIS Ad Hoc Interconnect Task Group Aug. 27
Minutes and Sept. 3 Reminder
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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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Next Meeting
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
9 AM US Pacific Time
Telephone Bridge Passcode
916-356-2663 3 944-0962
Use the LiveMeeting Links in Outlook or the information below:
Meeting ID: 0d2d068fd84b46c5be9d200440e7c6b6
Entry Code: 4U85mXtH5VX
Location: meet:sip:michael.mirmak@intel.com;gruu;opaque=app:conf:focus:id:0d2d068fd84b46c5be9d200440e7c6b6%3Fconf-key=4U85mXtH5VX
or
http://tinyurl.com/5julf4
Agenda:
- Call for patents
- Opens
- Review of combined Touchstone 2.0 mixed-mode text
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Minutes from August 27:
Attendees:
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(* denotes present)
Agilent - Radek Biernacki*, John Moore, Ken Wong*
Ansoft - Denis Soldo
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.
Both Vladimir and Radek provided updated copies of their respective
portions of the draft text to the reflector. Vladimir noted that the
equation editor used does not support bold for vectors, as is the IEEE
convention.
The team agreed that commas should not be used as delimiters throughout
the document, but only in [Mixed-Mode Order] to show relationships between
ports in a differential or common-mode pair. Semicolons and parentheses
should similarly be avoided. Whitespace, including CR and LF, is suitable
but the text should clarify whether keyword data/arguments must begin immediately
after the keyword itself or may begin on the line following.
Some small notation differences exist in parts of the document regarding
Equation numbering, use of "a" and "b" as vectors, the use of "S" for
single-ended data as opposed to S-parameters and j for imaginary as opposed
to a column variable.
Michael will integrate the two sections with the existing draft text
and release to the team for review.
The next meeting will review a draft featuring the complete mixed-mode
text. If mixed-mode support is closed with that draft, port grouping
will be finalized and the document will be prepared for submission to
the IBIS Open Forum.
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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
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