Minutes, IBIS Quality Teleconference January 7, 2003


TIME AND PHONE FOR NEXT MEETING
January 21, 2003
9-10 AM EST (6-7 AM PST)
Phone: 408-974-8478 or 800-249-5618
Meeting access: CONFERENCE SERVER 1, Conference ID: 54644


ROLL CALL
Adam Tambone adamt@maine.rr.com
*Barry Katz bkatz@sisoft.com
Benjamin P Silva benjamin.p.silva@intel.com
*Bob Ross bob_ross@mentor.org
*Brian Arsenault arsenault_brian@emc.com
*Eckhard Lenski Eckhard.Lenski@siemens.com
Eric Brock ebrock@sisoft.com
Gregory R Edlund gedlund@us.ibm.com
Hazem Hegazy hazem_hegazy@mentorg.com
John Figueroa jfigueroa@apple.com
Katja Koller Katja.Koller@siemens.com
Kevin Fisher kfisher@sisoft.com
*Kim Helliwell kimgh@apple.com
Lance Wang lwang@cadence.com
*Lynne Green lgreen@cadence.com
*Mike Labonte milabont@cisco.com
Peter LaFlamme plaflamm@amcc.com
*Robert Haller rhaller@sisoft.com
Roy Leventhal Roy_Leventhal@3com.com
Sherif Hammad sherif_hammad@mentorg.com
*Todd Westerhoff twesterh@cisco.com
Tom Dagostino tom@teraspeed.com
*Kazuyoshi Shoji kshohji@hitachi-ul.co.jp
*Sadahiro Nonoyama nonoyama@hitachi-ul.co.jp

Everyone in attendance marked by  *

Interested, but have not yet attended:
    Ralf Bruening Zuken ralf.bruening@zuken.de

NOTE: "AR" =3D Action Required.

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Barry Katz chaired the meeting.

- Review of minutes for December 17, 2002
Accepted as written.

- Announcements
                - EIA Call for Patent Disclosure
No company announced a patent.

- AR Review
   Bob Ross sent the list of parser messages to Barry for
uploading. These have been uploaded as
http://www.sisoft.com/ibis-quality/docs/ibischk3_msgs.txt.
   Kim Helliwell delivered his updated document; it was uploaded
as IQ_1_0_quality_summary.txt.

- Opens for new items
   No new items.

- Plans for DesignCon 03
   Summit on Monday, Jan 27th.  Barry will present current status and
examples of application at SiSoft.

- Detailed Documentation review
     IQ_1_0_quality_summary.txt

   Items re-ordered based on comments last week.  Still needs
formatting.
   Discussion:
   "Latest version" should refer to ibischk.  Version must be
documented. Could note that latest ibischk checks all current and
previous IBIS versions.
    Wording: change "yields" to "must yield"; add "must be defined"
as verbs to statements of required items. State that the goal is
zero warnings. Vil/Vih should be Vinl/Vinh. Discussion on what it
means for Overshoot to be required.  Is "NA" allowed?  This would
mean Model Spec would be required for Level 0.

   Diff pins, model selectors, etc: add keywords.
   Could change "reasonableness" to "correctness".  Or just change
all of these to simply "must be checked", or "checked in accordance
with <doc section>. Since V-t tables and [Ramp] might not use the
same load, how would the [Ramp] values be validated?  Perhaps say
"[Ramp] data must be derived in accordance with IBIS specification",
and validated against V-t curves at 50 Ohms if they are available.
   Reword requirements for V-t curves, since this is covered later in
the Quality document. Typ/Min/Max must be present and in correct
order. All output models must be run under standard load and switch
through Vmeas. All receiver models must be run through a simulation
- but is the point to test the capacitance, clamps, thresholds, or just
a smoke test?  A smoke test does not need to specify the circuit
conditions.  Consensus: go with "All receivers must be simulated."

AR: Barry to review minutes to see if Overshoot is required at Level 0.
AR: Kim to update document.
AR: ALL:  Read Kim's updated document.  Post comments on the
Quality reflector.

- Plans for next meeting
Review Todd's document.

- Schedule for next meeting
January 21, 2003
9-10 AM EST (6-7 AM PST)
Phone: 408-974-8478 or 800-249-5618
Meeting access: CONFERENCE SERVER 1, Conference ID: 54644


Meeting ended at 10:05 AM Eastern Time.


Links:
IBIS Home Page, http://www.eigroup.org/ibis/ibis.htm
IBIS Quality Checklist, http://www.sisoft.com/ibis-quality/checklist/
IBIS Quality Minutes, http://www.sisoft.com/ibis-quality/minutes/
Documentation drafts, http://www.sisoft.com/ibis-quality/docs/
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