[ibis-interconn] IBIS Ad Hoc Interconnect Task Group - May 19 Minutes and May 26 Reminder

From: "Mirmak, Michael" <michael.mirmak@xxxxxxxxx>
To: IBIS-Interconnect <ibis-interconn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 14:53:34 -0600
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IBIS INTERCONNECT MODELING AD HOC TASK GROUP MEETING MINUTES AND AGENDA

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Meeting Time
9 AM US Pacific Time 

Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time 
916-356-2663, Bridge: 4, Passcode: 936-9298
Live Meeting: https://webjoin.intel.com/?passcode=9369298

Agenda
- Attendance
- Opens
- Call for patents
- Review of TS2.x Binary Proposal Document

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Minutes from May 19, 2010:

Attendees:
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(* denotes present)
Agilent                    - Radek Biernacki*, John Moore, Ken Wong
Ansoft                     - Denis Soldo
Cadence Design Systems     - Terry Jernberg, Brad Griffin
Green Streak Programs      - Lynne Green
Hewlett-Packard            - Rob Elliott
IBM                              - Greg Edlund*, Lijun Jiang, Yaping Zhou
Intel                      - Michael Mirmak*
I/O Methodology            - Lance Wang
Mentor Graphics Corp.      - John Angulo*, Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov
Micron Technology          - Justin Butterfield, Randy Wolff
Sigrity                    - Sam Chitwood, Raymond Y. Chen, Tao Su, Brad Brim
SiSoft                     - Walter Katz
Teraspeed Consulting Group - Bob Ross*
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No patents were announced.  

During opens, Bob Ross noted that University of Torino (same group as the
authors of the IdEM tool) has a new binary database program, in the public 
domain, to translate from format to format of binary.  This program is 
called HDF 5.  Bob's machine cannot handle the program due to his 
operating system, but he is told this conversion program is a de facto 
standard in the industry.  Bob will forward a link to the program to 
various lists.  Supported OSes include Solaris, Mac, Windows, Linux.  
The program was not familiar to the team members in the meeting.

Radek Biernacki asked whether this was needed, as these functions are 
fairly easy to program.  Michael Mirmak responded that this may be of
interest for easy generation of specification document examples.  Radek
suggested that this should not be recommended yet for general conversion 
of files.

Greg Edlund, in response to a previous AR, reported on the possibility
of releasing code from IBM's proprietary HSSCDR team for binary-to-ASCII
translation.  HSSCDR was written using a high-level scripting language 
unique to the tool.  Therefore, releasing the code would not be useful.
Michael asked whether a pseudo-code version could be released.  In response,
Radek provided a brief explanation of binary vs. ASCII conversion.

John Angulo reported that his AR to provide hex format conversion from
binary for the specification examples is in progress.

Michael Mirmak summarized the next steps for the group:
- MCP efforts are still on hold absent Brad Brim
- ISS is not part of the Interconnect Task Group's deliverables, but review 
  and clean up efforts may be supplied by various team members who also
  attend the ATM task group
- binary support is still being finalized, as several major changes to the
  document are being discussed.  Bob and Radek advocated filing a TSIRD to
  formalize and approve the document changes
- node mapping to ports is still of interest, but will be treated through
  separate discussions and 
- once the technical changes are complete, the document will be reformatted
  to more closely resemble ANSI and/or IEEE standard formats

ARs 
Bob Ross: propose some generic language to summarize the recent binary format
  changes -- DONE
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