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IBIS FUTURES/COOKBOOK SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Date: July 1, 2004

Attendees:
Cadence                - Lance Wang
Green Streak Programs  - Lynne Green
Intel Corp.            - Michael Mirmak, Arpad Muranyi
Mentor Graphics        - John Angulo
Teraspeed Consulting   - Bob Ross

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Next Meeting:
Thursday, July 29
1 PM - 3 PM US Pacific Time

               Telephone     Bridge   Passcode
              916-356-2663     4      320-0254

Agenda:

1 - 1:05 PM  Opens

1:05 - 1:30 PM   Cookbook Discussion
                 - Next steps?

1:30 - 2 PM      Futures Discussion
                 - ICM Improvements

2 - 3 PM         - I vs. T with guests

                 Key questions: 
                  - what is the ultimate objective: core or buffer?
                  - can buffer power data lead us to core answers?
                  - are interactions understood analytically?
                  - have the problems presented by Bob at the summit 
                    been overcome?

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COOKBOOK MINUTES

Michael presented the latest update of the ICM cookbook, now expanded
to take EBD and PKG formats into account.  The document consists of
three parts -- ICM, PKG and EBD -- , with similar structures within 
each part: background, pre-modeling steps, assembling the file,
examples and validation.

Lynne Green and John Angulo suggested that the proposed structure
was too repetitive, and might result in 


ARs:
John Angulo - provide overview of differential model extraction 
              details -- WIP
Bob Ross - provide PECL/ECL IBIS example for cookbook

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FUTURES MINUTES

Michael Mirmak presented an overview of a proposal to add frequency dependence
to ICM RLGC matrices.  This proposal will become IIRD2.  A new
keyword, [Frequency], is suggested, which would define a block of
data extracted at a named frequency in hertz.  

Michael also briefly reviewed his user-definable measurements proposal,
expanding on work performed by Arpad Muranyi.


ARs:
Syed Huq - draft BIRD updating BIRD42.3 for review by the Futures
           Committee -- WIP
Ian Dodd - draft BIRDs for Issues (1) and (3) as listed below for
           review by the Futures Committee -- WIP

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For reference, the seven original BIRD proposals are listed below:

1) Define accepted digital states for input and output
   ports on IBIS 4.1 AMS models

2) Provide explicit links between ICM and IBIS

3) Expand [Circuit Call] to accept native IBIS [Model]
   and [External Model] references

4) Define series links between pins, pads and/or nodes
   under the multi-lingual extensions

5) Create user-definable buffer delay and input threshold
   measurements

6) Permit re-use of port names under [External Model]
 
7) Permit native IBIS data to be linked through external
   file names, similar to the multi-lingual extensions
   WITHDRAWN
 
Attendees were assigned to complete formal proposals or
definitions for the above, as follows:

1) Ian Dodd
2) Michael Mirmak
3) John Angulo
4) Ian Dodd & Bob Ross
5) Lance Wang, Ian Dodd and Arpad Muranyi
6) Arpad Muranyi
7) Lynne Green

The formal statements should include a problem statement and
a general outline of the solution.