[ibis-macro] Straw poll and call for comments: Crowdsource IBIS model directory by use of a wiki such as wikipedia?

From: <colin_warwick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ibis-interconn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:58:33 -0600

Hi,

I get several emails a month from customers asking "Is there an IBIS model for 
XYZ part from ABC IC vendor". I usually point them at:
http://www.teraspeed.com/ibis_resources.html
http://www.eigroup.org/ibis/ibis%20table/models.htm

If the info is out-of-date (as is often the case), I ask them to do an advanced 
Google search like: 
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=IBIS+site:someicvendordomain.com 

(replace someicvendordomain.com with the IC vendor's domain, obviously) 

But I'm wondering if there's a better way than "spray and pray" Googling or 
burdening a single librarian with hundreds of update requests.

Sooo...How about crowdsourcing?

"Crowd-what-ing," you say? Here's a definition from wikipedia:

'Crowdsourcing is a neologistic compound of Crowd and Outsourcing for the act 
of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and 
outsourcing them to a group of people or community, through an "open call" to a 
large group of people (a crowd) asking for contributions.'
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing )

Specifically, I'm wondering if we should create a table off of the main IBIS 
page on wikipedia: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_Output_Buffer_Information_Specification

...(or some other wiki) for IC vendors to update their info themselves. It 
would look something like this prototype I cobbled together:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Woz2/Input_Output_Buffer_Information_Specification/Table_of_IBIS_models
 

Thoughts? Please vote in this informal straw poll:

http://signal-integrity.tm.agilent.com/2010/crowdsource-ibis-models-directory/

and/or leave a comment there, and/or comment to this thread.

Best regards,

-- Colin Warwick
Signal Integrity Product Manager, Agilent EEsof EDA


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[ibis-macro] Straw poll and call for comments: Crowdsource IBIS model directory by use of a wiki such as wikipedia?

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