Minutes from the 28 Nov 2017 ibis-quality meeting are attached.
Mike
Minutes, IBIS Quality Task Group
28 November 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
Review of previous meeting minutes:
- Bob Ross moved to approve the Oct 31 minutes.
Lance Wang seconded the motion. Without objection minutes were approved.
ARs:
- Bob Ross and Mike LaBonte to draft contract for IBISCHK7.0.0
- Mike: We should pass BIRD189 before doing this.
- Bob: We should not pass 7.0 until we have a parser commitment.
- Bob Ross to write bug reports for new issues:
- Not yet
IBISCHK7 development:
- Mike: Next year we will have new parser sales.
- However, Bob estimates $25k development cost.
- Bob: The file directory hierarchy change affects many keywords.
- BIRD189 is the big one.
- Mike: that will create new data structures.
- Bob: It has quite a few rules to check too.
- Mike: We started IBISCHK 6.1 work before it was passed, and that worked well.
- Bob: Having a good specification helps.
- For IBIS 4.1 Atul quoted $25k, Jon Powell quoted $20k.
- Mike: And that was years ago.
- Bob: This one might be between $15k and $25k.
- Iterations are costly. We had 5 iterations for 6.1.
- Test cases are expensive too.
- Mike: Did the extra detail in the last contract help Atul?
- Bob: We have to tell him just the changes.
- Mike: We should begin work on the contract soon.
- That will help us find the flaws in the specification.
- Mike showed contracts for 6.1.4 and 6.1.0.
- Mike: We would only need to work on the appendix up front.
- Appendix item G is the most important part.
- Bob: It doesn't need to repeat the list of BIRDs.
- Mike: I could draft the appendix without BIRD 189.
- Bob: Some BIRDs will be marked "no parser change"
- We will need to give all the character width limits that have changed.
AR: Mike LaBonte to draft IBISCHK7.0.0 contract
New IBISCHK bugs:
- None.
- Bob Ross moved to adjourn. Lance Wang seconded. The meeting ended without
objection.
Meeting ended: 11:42 ET
Next meeting December 5, 2017
