Attendees:
Mark Hahn, Cadence (Chair)
Tom Dewey, Mentor Graphics
Bob Dilly, IBM
Jim Swift, IBM
Open action items:
Who When What
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1. Jim 1/19 Investigate whether IBM could provide the
-> 2/16 Einstimer educational material as a reference
-> 3/2
-> 3/30
-> 4/13
2. Greg 2/16 Provide a list of BuildGates commands that
-> 3/2 accept min/max values for best case, worst
-> 3/30 case operating conditions
-> 4/6
-> 4/13
3. Mark 3/2 Add operating conditions to the taxonomy
-> 3/30
-> 4/13
4. Mark 3/30 Check on DAC demo participation from
Mentor, Synopsys, Synplicity
-> 4/6
-> 4/13
Next Meeting:
The next meeting will be a teleconference on 4/13
from 9-11 am (PDT).
Details:
1. Review action items
Jim hadn't heard back from IBM legal on the Einstimer educational
material.
Mark contacted Ibna Faruque, who was going on vacation the
next day, about Synopsys participation in the demo. He indicated
there might be some interest, but referred Mark to Karen Bartleson.
No closure yet.
Mark contacted Synplicity marketing, but hadn't received a response
yet.
2. Discuss DAC demo
Bob raised some concerns about the origins of the MIPS R4000
design being used for testing within IBM; we need to be sure
that the design really is public domain if we're going to use
it as the basis for the demo. Mark and Bob will check into this.
IBM committed to participating in the demo.
We agreed to use an IBM SA27 (0.18u) library, which will be
available in both OLA and text formats.
3. Review parasitics boundary conditions
Steve went over a summary of the different types of constraints
and boundary conditions. It looked good; a couple of points
will be clarified through followup email discussion.
-- Mark Hahn phone: (408) 428-5399 Senior Architect fax: (408) 428-5959 Cadence Design Systems email: mhahn@cadence.com