Minutes from the 21 Mar 2017 ibis-quality meeting are attached.
MikeMinutes, IBIS Quality Task Group
21 Mar 2017
11:00-12:00 EST (08:00-09:00 PST)
ROLL CALL
eASIC: David Banas
Ericsson: Anders Ekholm
Intel: Michael Mirmak
Eugene Lim
IO Methodology: * Lance Wang
Signal Integrity Software: * Mike LaBonte
Teraspeed Labs: * Bob Ross
Visteon: Preetesh Rathod
Everyone in attendance marked by *
NOTE: "AR" = Action Required.
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Mike LaBonte conducted the meeting.
Call for IBIS related patent disclosures:
- None
Call for opens:
- None
ARs:
- Bob Ross to clean up bug 187 testcase to remove superfluous warnings.
- Done
- Bob Ross produce IBISCHK bug report for lack of warning given empty .ami file
- Done.
- Mike LaBonte to write text for contract to complete IBISCHK message help.
- Not done.
IBISCHK Bug 187 Missing newlines in error message:
- Bob showed the bug report
- Bob: I will upload this today.
- The testcase now has 4 cases, Linux/Windows, 32/64.
- It has real executables from bug 179.
- This will produce one warning.
IBISCHK Bug 188 Empty .ami file:
- Bob showed the bug report.
- Bob: One problem is that regression tests using empty files will break once
this is fixed.
- Mike: It should be noted that any characters, even a comment line, will make
the files fail.
- Bob: We might not fix this if the effort is high.
Should IBISCHK strictly require Boolean to be True or False?
- Mike: Michael Mirmak has asked if we intentionally accept only "True" and
"False".
- Many tools accept case-insensitive, yes/no, t/f, 1/0, etc.
- Allowing other values would require tools to change.
- Bob: Many tools already allow other values.
- IBIS is case-sensitive all around.
- We make an exception for file names.
- Mike: That is limited to Windows.
- People have used "FALSE" and it might even get through testing.
- The IBISCHK might happen later.
- Bob: We have other case sensitivity issues.
- For example column headings.
- Mike: We may have required case sensitivity in the early 1990s because
computers were slower.
- Also hash algorithms are often used for lists, but must be case-sensitive.
- Bob: There are exceptions to case sensitivity
- Keywords
- Reserved words like POWER, GND
- Reserved words must not be used for any other purpose.
Meeting ended: 12:45 ET
Next meeting March 28, 2017
