All, Several of us discussed how to move forward on the AMI BIRD expeditiously. We agreed that the best plan is to remove any non-necessary enhancements to the BIRD, and defer them to a BIRD we will start immediately after this BIRD gets submitted to the Open Forum. I am enclosing an updated BIRD with these changes. On Tuesday I will complete the first pass review of the rest of the document (Section 10, starting on page 15) Summary of changes: 1. Remove new reserved Tx Jitter and Rx Clock Recovery parameters a. Tx_Dj b. Tx_Rj c. Rx_Clock_Recovery_Mean d. Rx_Clock_Recovery_Rj 2. Remove tap parameters a. Scale b. Limit 3. Remove Environment Variables 4. Remove AMISearchPath 5. Allow <CR> <LF> in strings 6. Remove limit on max length of Strings 7. Allow NA as a valid value 8. Removed AMI_Version 9. Requirement for Usage and Type are relaxed for certain Reserved Parameters 10. Kumar?s question, How does this combination prevents deconvolution/other techniques to derive the filter response? a. I believe this was answered during the presentation on flows. b. Any discussions on this should be done in an e-mail thread on the reflector 11. Kumar?s question (re Rx_Receiver Sensitivity) , How the EDA/model is expected to use this information in a standard way during simulation/post processing? a. Any discussions on this should be done in an e-mail thread on the reflector 12. Changes to support conditional processing. If anyone objects to any of these decisions, I request that they start an e-mail thread on the reflector to present alternative wording in the BIRD. It is my goal to have a BIRD for the next weeks meeting (Feb 16) that I would be prepared to submit to the Open Forum. Walter Walter Katz 303.449-2308 Mobile 720.333-1107 wkatz@xxxxxxxxxx www.sisoft.com