Minutes from the 7 December 2018 IBIS Editorial Task Group meeting are
attached.
Mike
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IBIS EDITORIAL TASK GROUP
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Attendees from the December 7, 2018 Meeting (* means attended at least using
audio)
ANSYS Curtis Clark
Cadence Design Systems Bradley Brim
Intel Corp. Michael Mirmak*
Keysight Technologies Radek Biernacki*
Mentor, A Siemens Business Arpad Muranyi*
Micron Technology Justin Butterfield, Randy Wolff
SiSoft Walter Katz, Mike LaBonte*
Teraspeed Labs Bob Ross*
Michael Mirmak convened the meeting. No patents were declared.
Mike LaBonte took minutes.
Review of minutes from the December 5 meeting:
Michael Mirmak noted one instance of "[AR}" with curly right brace, which he
spotted
only after searching for all instances of "[AR]". Arpad Muranyi moved to
approve.
Mike LaBonte seconded. Minutes were approved without objection.
Review of ARs:
- Mike LaBonte to send out the latest draft and checklist.
Mike reported this was done. Michael Mirmak noted that documents from both
December 3
(AR from November 28 meeting) and December 5 were posted. Mike noted that an
IBIS 7.0
Known Issues document, emailed by Michael along with the other December 3
documents,
was also posted online. Michael said the online link to that was broken. He
also found
it interesting that MSWord comments had been copied into it from the source
document.
Bob Ross suggested that we should review and resolve those issues.
- Mike LaBonte to ask Michael Mirmak about the Table encroachment issue.
The table issues were mentioned in the list email conveying the documents.
[AR]: Mike LaBonte to fix broken link to IBIS 7.0 Known Issues document.
Opens:
Mirmak said we would need to release 7.0 for public review by a near-term
deadline if
there is to be a vote to ratify IBIS 7.0 at the DesignCon summit. Bob Ross
suggested
that we should introduce 7.0 there but not vote. Michael said it would be good
public
relations to be able to say the specification was approved in a public forum.
Review of ver7_0_181205.docx:
Arpad Muranyi asked to review Table 20, which extends beyond the right text
column
margin. Arpad said we had tried unsuccessfully to make it narrower to fit the
column.
Michael Mirmak said the padding around heading words was causing the extra
width.
Radek Biernacki asked if it was really such a problem that the table extends
outside
the column. Mike LaBonte noted that it looked like there was at least a half
inch of margin, so it should print OK. Michael showed the print preview to
prove
that. He suggested that the headers could be shortened to make the table
narrower.
Mike said that he had previously tried to padding from .08 to .06 for those
cells,
but somehow it didn't work. Michael Mirmak made that change, but it did not
make the
table narrower. Arpad suggested hyphenation "Increment" to make it a bit
narrower.
Bob Ross objected, noting that it could cause confusion because "Dual-Dirac"
has an
explicit hyphen. Michael changed the font size to 8 points and the table then
fit the
column well. He then changed the format headings to vertical orientation,
making them
tall and narrow. He also restored font size to original. Arpad suggested
"Dual-Dirac"
could then be a single line, and also that each column could then be the same
width.
Bob suggested using auto-fit, which was tried. This was rejected because the
table
was too narrow and crowded. A good arrangement was achieved by trial and error.
Bob suggested reversing the vertical orientation, rotating it clockwise instead.
Mike said counter-clockwise would be best because it would allow for turning the
printed document, with a binding on the left, such that it flips with the
binding on
the far edge. We decided to keep it rotated counter-clockwise. Arpad asked if
the
font size was too large. It was the same as other tables.
Michael changed the orientation of Table 23 headers to vertical. Arpad
suggested that
Michael could fix all such tables offline, after the meeting.
[AR] Michael Mirmak to adjust all Allowable Data Format tables using vertical
header alignment.
Bob said page 194 had bold text that should be plain. This was fixed. Mike
noted that
there was no page number for 194.
Michael Mirmak suggested that task 81 was largely done. Bob Ross said we still
needed
to decide how to handles possessives ending in "s" (Ross' or Ross's). Mike
LaBonte
said journalists have trended toward ending in "'s".
Michael Mirmak asked if the new known issues document should be named with
"7.1", not
"7.0". Mike said previous such documents have been named based on the document
they
are correcting. Also it was not yet known if the next IBIS would be 7.1 or 8.0.
Arpad asked if the next meeting should use the Tuesday ATM time slot. We agreed
to
meet then. Michael Mirmak said he would also be available for Wednesday. Mike
LaBonte
would not be available.
Mike LaBonte moved to adjourn. Radek Biernacki seconded. The meeting
adjourned without
objection.
The next meeting will take place Tuesday, December 11, at Noon Pacific.
Open Technical Questions:
1. BIRD182: POWER and GND [Pin] signal_name as [Pin Mapping] bus_label
a. Is a bus_label created even if we don't have [Pin Mapping], [Bus Label],
or [Die Supply Pads] through the [Pin]?
b. Is a bus_label short created for legacy package models based on the
second column of [Pin] when we do not have a [Pin Mapping] entry?
