[ibis-macro] Sep 6 minutes
- From: milabont@xxxxxxxxx
- To: <ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:27:57 -0400
Sorry about the delay - I thought the minutes from the last phone call
had been sent out. Here they are.
Mike
meeting date: 6 sep 2005
attending: Arpad Muranyi, Todd Westerhoff, Ian Dodd, Bob Ross, Barry Katz,
Ken Willis, Sam Chitwood, Mike LaBonte
-------------
AR: Mike will annotate one module, get comments, do the rest
- Sent, need to discuss Arpad's feedback.
AR: Todd and Mike start presentation
- IBIS summit time slot allocated, presentation only begun.
title: "An IBIS 4.1 Macro Library for Simulator-Independent Modeling"
AR: Ken find out if Cadence can contribute another template
- Yes, they can.
-------------
DesignCon East IBIS summit.
- Todd and Mike will be there. Bob and Arpad by phone.
Comment format:
- Will use p and n
- Should try
- T-line terminals should be COND1, COND2, etc. to avoid confusion with
N1, N2, as node numbers.
- Spell out what the example means in words.
- Comments could have XML format.
- Mike will send sample.
- May be less readable to humans.
Library discussion:
- Should we have min(), max() etc. modules?
- No, people need to learn the language.
- Should we discourage people from writing equations at template level?
- Less mappable if they do.
- Should we write more building blocks?
- Let's not try so hard to predict what people need.
- Library needs to be stable before sim vendors will implement mapping.
- This is why we want cadence templates.
- Dynamic buffer C_comp scaling?
- Would take a lot of additional ports if we made everything scalable.
- Cadence hasn't seen the need.
- Maybe V/I scaling.
- How about waveform delay scaling?
- Will simulators be able to do this?
- Static is OK.
- Need open-drain and open-source buffers?
- Could have a parameter for model_type.
- Should we have a larger number of modules with just the right ports,
or a smaller number of more general purpose modules?
- Since we are making people clone the buffer modules for each instance,
we should make them minimal.
- PWL table model?
- Should table data be embedded?
- yes.
- Can we make a triggerable PWL?
- Only maps to Kumar-SPICE so far.
IBIS summit presentation:
- Hopefully it can be in the morning, before many people leave.
-------------
Next meeting: Tuesday September 27, 2005.
Other related posts:
- » [ibis-macro] Sep 6 minutes
