[ibis-macro] Minutes from the 21 Jul 2009 ibis-atm meeeting
- From: "Mike LaBonte (milabont)" <milabont@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "IBIS-ATM" <ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:37:38 -0400
Minutes from the 21 Jul 2009 ibis-atm meeeting are attached.
Mike
IBIS Macromodel Task Group
Meeting date: 21 July 2009
Members (asterisk for those attending):
Adge Hawes, IBM
Ambrish Varma, Cadence Design Systems
Anders Ekholm, Ericsson
* Arpad Muranyi, Mentor Graphics Corp.
Barry Katz, SiSoft
* Bob Ross, Teraspeed Consulting Group
Brad Brim, Sigrity
Brad Griffin, Cadence Design Systems
Chris McGrath, Synopsys
David Banas, Xilinx
Deepak Ramaswany, Ansoft
Donald Telian, consultant
Doug White, Cisco Systems
* Eckhard Lenski, Nokia-Siemens Networks
Essaid Bensoudane, ST Microelectronics
Fangyi Rao, Agilent
Ganesh Narayanaswamy, ST Micro
Gang Kang, Sigrity
Hemant Shah, Cadence Design Systems
Ian Dodd, consultant
Jerry Chuang, Xilinx
Joe Abler, IBM
* John Angulo, Mentor Graphics
John Shields, Mentor Graphics
Ken Willis, Cadence Design Systems
Kumar Keshavan, Sigrity
Lance Wang, Cadence Design Systems
Luis Boluna, Cisco Systems
Michael Mirmak, Intel Corp.
* Mike LaBonte, Cisco Systems
Mike Steinberger, SiSoft
Mustansir Fanaswalla, Xilinx
Patrick O'Halloran, Tiburon Design Automation
Paul Fernando, NCSU
Pavani Jella, TI
Radek Biernacki, Agilent (EESof)
Randy Wolff, Micron Technology
Ray Comeau, Cadence Design Systems
Richard Mellitz, Intel
Richard Ward, Texas Instruments
Samuel Mertens, Ansoft
Sam Chitwood, Sigrity
Sanjeev Gupta, Agilent
Shangli Wu, Cadence Design Systems
Sid Singh, Extreme Networks
Stephen Scearce, Cisco Systems
Steve Pytel, Ansoft
Syed Huq, Cisco Systems
Syed Sadeghi, ST Micro
Ted Mido, Synopsys
Terry Jernberg, Cadence Design Systems
Todd Westerhoff, SiSoft
Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov
Vikas Gupta, Xilinx
Vuk Borich, Agilent
* Walter Katz, SiSoft
Zhen Mu, Cadence Design Systems
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Opens:
- Arpad: We should discuss the BIRDs mentioned last week
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Call for patent disclosure:
- No one declared a patent.
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Review of ARs:
- Mike change web page to make items easily linkable
- In progress
- The change is to no longer use frames, which when linked open up a
page with only the subframe, not the whole page.
- Walter email updated IBIS-ISS document to list
- Sent by email after the last meeting
- Todd ask Synopsys about public posting of the document
- Walter reports that Todd is working on it
- Arpad write a BIRD to clarify time period accuracy requirements
- TBD
- Todd: Write IBIS s-param BIRD
- No update
- Arpad: Write parameter passing syntax proposal (BIRD draft)
for *-AMS models in IBIS that is consistent with the
parameter passing syntax of the AMI models
- TBD
- TBD: Propose a parameter passing syntax for the SPICE
- [External ...] also?
- TBD
- Arpad: Review the documentation (annotation) in the macro libraries.
- Deferred until a demand arises or we have nothing else to do
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New Discussion:
The next meeting will be in 2 weeks due to the IBIS summit next week
Arpad showed Walter's presentation for the IBIS summit
- Arpad made a few editorial changes
- Slide 5:
- Arpad: What is meant by "pins" here?
- Walter: They are "ports", could be either pins or pads
- "IBIS-SPICE" was changed to "IBIS-ISS" in a few places
- Slide 7:
- We added "All elements must be contained inside one or more subcircuits"
- Slide 4:
- Mike: The title is EMD, but the slide is about IBIS-ISS
- The title was clarified
- Slide 1:
- Bob: The presentation venue should be listed
- Arpad added the venue
AR: Arpad send updated IBIS-ISS presentation to Walter
Arpad asked if there were comments on the IBIS-ISS specification itself
- No comments
Next meeting: 4 Aug 2009 12:00pm PT
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IBIS Interconnect SPICE Wish List:
1) Simulator directives
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