Walter, Your list is going to take a lot more than ~6 months to accomplish. I can see a lot of complications around the [IBIS-ISS On-Die Interconnect File] and [Die Pad] keywords alone. If we are looking for "instant gratification" I would suggest to approve BIRD 116-118 + 125 + 129 + 145 (and 152) and then work on the more extensive overhaul of IBIS after that. The BIRDs listed above are pretty much ready to go, and don't require major changes in the specification and the EDA tools. I can see this being done well within 6 months and it would go a long way in improving the package and on-die interconnect modeling in IBIS. Thanks, Arpad ============================================================== From: ibis-interconn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ibis-interconn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walter Katz Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:57 AM To: Ibis-Interconn Subject: [ibis-interconn] Suggested Plan for IBIS Packaging and On_Die Interconnect Modeling All, Suggested Plan for IBIS Packaging and On_Die Interconnect Modeling Assuming that we want to have a Packaging and On_Die Interconnect Modeling solution in ~ 6 months, with minimal impact on the IBIS (.ibs) and EBD (.ebd) parser, I would like to make the following recommendations: BIRD IBIS-ISS Packaging and On-Die Interconnect Modeling in IBIS (.ibs) files. Add the following new Keywords to IBIS in the [Component] section [IBIS-ISS Packaging Interconnect File] <file name> [IBIS-ISS On-Die Interconnect File] <file name> [Die Pad] This keyword will be followed by a list of <die pad name> <signal name> to define explicit die pad names Intrinsic [Die Pad] names will be a list of all unique signal_names in the [Pin Section] Create a separate specification for [IBIS-ISS Packaging Interconnect File] [IBIS-ISS On-Die Interconnect File] BIRD IBIS-ISS Interconnect Modeling in EBD (.ebd) files. Add the following new Keywords to IBIS in the EBD section [IBIS-ISS EBD Interconnect File] <file name> Create a separate specification for [IBIS-ISS EBD Interconnect File] This will be essentially the same as [IBIS-ISS Packaging Interconnect File] with the following exceptions Definition of Extended Nets, each Extended Net will have (This could go in EBD file but would be better in parameter tree format Extended Net Name List of EBD Pins List of Reference Designator Map Pins Package models will only go between EBD Pins and Reference Designator Map Pins Walter Walter Katz wkatz@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:wkatz@xxxxxxxxxx> Phone 303.449-2308 Mobile 303.335-6156