Subject: 6/15/95 EIA IBIS Open Forum Meeting Minutes

From: Derrick Duehren <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:47:00 PDT

IBISians,
 
 Thank you all for the thank-you plaque and letter.  I have very much enjoyed 
 serving as secretary to this august body.  I wish you all the best and I am 
 confident that Bob Ross ([email-masked]) will be a good replacement.
 
 Derrick Duehren
 IBIS Open Forum Secretary (a volunteer position)
 Phone (503) 264-4299, Fax (503) 264-4904
 [email-masked]
 2111 NE 25th, JF1-97, Hillsboro, OR 97224
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 DATE:    June 19, 1995
 
 SUBJECT: 6/15/95 EIA IBIS Open Forum Meeting Minutes
 
 VOTING MEMBERS:
 AT&T Global Info Solutions     Dave Moxley
 Cadence Design                 Sandeep Khanna, C. Kumar*
 Contec                         Dileep Divekar*
 HyperLynx                      Kellee Crisafulli
 INCASES                        Werner Rissiek*, Olaf Rethmeier
 Intel Corporation              Stephen Peters, Will Hobbs*, Arpad Muranyi,
                                Derrick Duehren*
 Interconnectix, Inc.           Bob Ross*
 Meta-software                  Les Spruiell*
 Motorola                       Ron Werner
 National Semiconductor         Syed Huq*, Atul Agarwal, Cheng-Yang Kao*
 NEC                            Hiroshi Matsumoto
 Quad Design                    Jon Powell*
 Quantic Labs                   Mike Ventham
 Texas Instruments              Bob Ward*
 Thomson-CSF/SCTF               Jean LeBrun*
 UniCAD Canada Ltd.             Stephen Lum*
 Zuken-Redac                    John Berrie
 
 OTHER PARTICIPANTS:
 ARPA                           Randy Harr
 Anacad                         Steffen Rochel
 Ansoft                         Henri Maramis
 Atmel Corporation              Dan Terry
 Cadlab                         Ralf Bruning
 Digital Equipment Corp.        Barry Katz
 EIA                            Patti Rusher*
 High Design Technology         Michael Smith, Dr. Ing. Cosso
 Hewlett Packard                Tom Langdorf, Karl Kachigan, Henry Wu
 IBM                            Jay Diepenbrock
 Integrated Silicon Systems     Eric Bracken
 Intergraph                     Ian Dodd, David Wiens, Walter Katz
 IntuSoft                       Charles Hymowitz
 LSI Logic Corp.                Satish Pratadneni*
 Mentor Graphics                Ravender Goyal, Greg Doyle
 Meta-Software                  Mei Wong, You-Pang Wei, John Sliney
 MicroSim                       Arthur Wong
 North Carolina State U.        Steve Lipa, Michael Steer
 OptEM Engineering, Inc.        Benny Leveille, Ken Ehn
 Pacific Numerix                Paul K. U. Wang
 Symmetry                       Martin Walker
 Synopsys, Logic Modeling G.    Bill Lattin
 Zeelan Technology              George Opsahl*, Hiro Moriyasu
 
 In the list above, attendees at the meeting are indicated by *.
 
 Upcoming Meetings: The bridge numbers for future IBIS teleconferences are as 
 follows:
      Date       Bridge Number    Reservation #    Passcode 
      6/30/95    (916) 356-9999   1-3145           3815654 
      7/21/95    (916) 356-9999   1-3147           7221442 
      8/11/95    (916) 356-9999   1-3150           8492193 
 
 All meetings are 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time.  We try to have agendas out 
 7 days before each open forum and meeting minutes out within 7 days after.  
 When you call into the meeting, ask for the IBIS Open Forum hosted by Will 
 Hobbs and give the reservation number.
 
 NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.
 
 -------------------------------- MINUTES -------------------------------------
 
 INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Everyone introduced themselves and stated their involvement/interest in IBIS.  
 Jean LeBrun went into some detail on his activities in the European CAD 
 Standards Initiative group working on modeling standards.  Two years ago he 
 learned of IBIS just as he was about to launch a similar activity in Europe, 
 and chose to monitor the progress of IBIS instead, to see if it met their 
 needs. It has.  He has also been applying IBIS to EMC simulation and has found 
 it very accurate.  He also discussed some of the thermal modeling work he has 
 been engaged in, in a similar approach to IBIS.
 
 We had 14 attendees at the IBIS Birds of the Feather session the previous 
 evening.  Jon Powell lead the discussion, as Will Hobbs was leading the OMF 
 discussion across the hall.

 EIA IBIS MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
 We now have 17 paid members (indicated in the participant list above).  10 
 were present to vote.

 PUBLIC RELATIONS
 Jon and Patti will be creating a poster of participant companies' logos.  
 Everyone likes the concept.  Patti will send letters on EIA letterhead asking 
 for official permission to use of the logos on the poster.  Jon will also get 
 another 40 "IBIS Spoken Here" placards made.  Send email to Jon ([email-masked]) 
 if you want one.
 
 Patti published a press release just before DAC.  We will wait until the end 
 of the balloting process before issuing another press release.
 
 Syed reported on National's internal WWW page.  NSC has a variety of IBIS 
 information files posted internally.  Syed and Patti are working to set up an 
 EIA home page for IBIS.  Content suggestions:
 o EDN article (we still own the rights)
 o Frequently asked questions, or FAQ
 o Presentation materials from conferences, etc.
 o IBIS overview (2.1 Update needed)
 o EDA/Semiconductor company home page links
 o Links to publicly available models
 
 A link to the vhdl.org library is possible via ftp.
 
 Jon motioned that all submissions to the WWW home page be approved by a 
 majority vote of the members present.  The motion was passed.  Syed 
 volunteered to be the "Web Master".
 
 Syed also discussed his successful efforts within NSC to propagate IBIS.
 
 AR Syed - Post to the reflector a summary of your efforts to promote IBIS 
 within NSC.

 ELECTION OF OFFICERS
 Chair:       Will Hobbs
 Vice Chair:  Jon Powell
 Secretary:   Bob Ross
 Librarian:   Michael Steer (not present - has option to decline)
 Having only one person nominated to each position, all positions were elected 
 by acclamation, effective next meeting.

 STATUS OF IBIS SPEC BALLOTING
 So far, Patti has received about five positive responses to the ballot, with 
 no comments that require response from the committee.
 
 8/22/95 is the deadline for ballot responses.  We will then have 5 working 
 days to finish responding to the comments (we can respond to the comments as 
 they arrive).  All comments must have a response.  Any substantive technical 
 changes must go out for a second 30-day ballot.  Once it is approved as an EIA 
 standard, EIA656, Patti will present it to ANSI in Sept./Oct. to become a 
 National standard, then on to the international community to make it an 
 international standard.  Jean LeBrun pointed out that to be approved 
 internationally the spec must have a clear statement of the scope and purpose.

 GOLDEN PARSER UPDATE
 Will received an update from Paul Munsey before leaving for DAC but has yet to 
 distribute it.  Paul believes that this is the "final" version.  But Bob Ross 
 would like us to contract Paul to make changes to the banded matrix section 
 (see BIRD 29 discussion).

 INCREASING MODEL AVAILABILTIY
 Bob Ross presented a letter that Brock Hannibal, Tektronix, has written to his 
 purchasing dept.  It directs them to ask a series of questions of Tek's 
 semiconductor suppliers, expressing preference for IBIS models and grilling 
 them on their strategies for providing I/O models. 
 
 We discussed the need for companies that have non-public IBIS models to 
 advertise them on vhdl.org.  We agreed that companies should be able to post 
 lists of IBIS files that are available only under NDA to Michael Steer, using 
 a similar approval/signature process as normal IBIS files.  Michael could then 
 post the file list to the companies' vhdl.org directory as a text file 
 (models.nda?).

 BIRD 29.1, BANDED MATRICES
 Bob Ross summarized BIRD 29.1, which he posted 2 days ago (less than the 14 
 days required before a vote can be taken).  The forum decided to have Paul 
 Munsey roll BIRD 29.1 into the Golden Parser.  We can formally approve the 
 BIRD at our next meeting.

 ==============================================================================
                                       NOTES
 
 IBIS CHAIR: Will Hobbs (503) 264-4369, Fax (503) 264-4210
             [email-masked]
             Modeling Manager, Intel Corp., Chairperson, EIA IBIS Open Forum
             2111 NE 28th M/S JF1-50, Hillsboro, OR 97124 USA
 
 VICE CHAIR: Jon Powell (805) 988-8250, Fax: (805) 988-8259
             [email-masked]
             1385 Del Norte Rd., Camarillo, CA 93010
 
 SECRETARY:  Derrick Duehren (503) 264-4299, fax (503) 264-4904
             [email-masked]
             Intel Program Manager
 
 To become a voting member of the EIA IBIS Open Forum, send email to 
 [email-masked] for instructions.
 
 If you want to join the e-mail reflector ([email-masked]), send e-mail to the 
 IBIS secretary at [email-masked].
 
 Check the pub/ibis directory on vhdl.org for more information on previous 
 discussions and results.  You can get on via ftp anonymous, "guest" login from 
 telnet or dial-in (415-335-0110), or send an email request to the automatic 
 archive server, [email-masked].
 
 "IBIS Spoken Here" placards are available from Jon Powell ([email-masked]) for 
 use at trade shows.
 ==============================================================================