Minutes from the 20 October ibis-atm meeting are attached.
IBIS Macromodel Task Group
Meeting date: 20 October 2020
Members (asterisk for those attending):
Achronix Semiconductor * Hansel Dsilva
ANSYS: * Curtis Clark
* Wei-hsing Huang
Cadence Design Systems: * Ambrish Varma
Ken Willis
* Jared James
Google: * Zhiping Yang
Intel: * Michael Mirmak
Kinger Cai
Keysight Technologies: * Fangyi Rao
* Radek Biernacki
Ming Yan
Todd Bermensolo
Rui Yang
Marvell Steve Parker
Mentor, A Siemens Business: * Arpad Muranyi
Micron Technology: Randy Wolff
* Justin Butterfield
SAE ITC Jose Godoy
SiSoft (Mathworks): * Walter Katz
Mike LaBonte
Teraspeed Labs: * Bob Ross
Zuken USA: Lance Wang
The meeting was led by Arpad Muranyi. Justin Butterfield took the minutes.
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Opens:
Michael asked about the topic of the redriver flows. He plans to invite an
expert from his side to the meeting next week to discuss redrivers and the
simulation flow. Michael moved to untable the redriver discussion topic.
Arpad asked which specific agenda item this is related to. Michael thought
item 13 for BIRD166.4 would be the best starting point, but he was not sure
the status of the other BIRDs. Michael amended his motion to untable agenda
items 13, 14, and 15. Curtis seconded. There were no objections.
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Review of ARs:
- None.
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Call for patent disclosure:
- None.
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Review of Meeting Minutes:
Arpad asked for any comments or corrections to the minutes of the October 13
meeting. Jared moved to approve the minutes. Ambrish seconded the motion.
There were no objections.
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New Discussion:
Supporting PI modeling/simulations in IBIS:
Zhiping had a meeting with the MST professor regarding the IBIS Summit
presentation on improving IBIS modeling of PSIJ. Zhiping suggested for MST to
do additional research and present the results from that study in this forum
for feedback. He commented that PSIJ can be an important effect to model.
Arpad suggested to also collaborate with Michael on his timing BIRD. Zhiping
agreed this would be a good to discuss.
GDDR6x Signaling:
Michael asked if this has been discussed in JEDEC. Justin will find out if
single-ended PAM4 has been discussed in JEDEC.
- Michael: Motion to adjourn.
- Zhiping: Second.
- Arpad: Thank you all for joining.
AR: Justin to find out if single-ended PAM4 has been discussed in JEDEC.
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Next meeting: 27 October 2020 12:00pm PT
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IBIS Interconnect SPICE Wish List:
1) Simulator directives
