Hi, Ken; I apologize for my late reply. The text looks fine. You may want to make it clear that EDA tool will pass the message issued by Rx with TrainingDone=True to Tx to end the training session. Regards, Fangyi From: Ken Willis [mailto:kwillis@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:23 AM To: RAO,FANGYI (A-USA,ex1) Cc: ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: TrainingDone for back-channel Hi Fangyi, One input I got from the last conference call on back-channel was regarding the TrainingDone parameter from the standpoint of the EDA tool. Typically, the Rx will decide that training is completed and issue TrainingDone=True. The EDA tool should also be able to do this since this is an InOut parameter. The idea here is that the tool could pass TrainingDone=True to the Rx, and the Rx could re-issue it out to formally end the training process. So this would always end up going through the Rx for consistency. Here is what I would update in the BIRD: TrainingDone: TrainingDone is of usage InOut and is issued by the receiver model to signify the completion of back-channel training. TrainingDone can also be initiated by the EDA tool. In this case the parameter TrainingDone=True can be passed from the EDA tool to the receiver model. Then the receiver model can re-issue TrainingDone=True to end the training process. Let me know if this would cover it. Thanks, Ken Willis Sigrity, Inc. 860-871-7070 kwillis@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:kwillis@xxxxxxxxxxx>