Hello Anders, it looks like you are right. We have forgotten to specify a tolerance or a value. I am not sure if this was done intentially. But for the reasons you mention, I would suggest a tolerance value of 10uA. first, this is the value stated in most datasheets, and second, we will asure, that for internal pullup or internal pulldown current, which is normaly greater than 20uA, the current is at least twice above our tolerance value for zero. ( although this leakage current should be in the clamp curves, if any ) It is a little bit difficult to explain: in other words : tolerance value 10uA - because it is a typical data sheet value for max. leakage currents - because it is at least twice the value for some internal pullup-pulldown currents regards eckhard Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards / Cordiali saluti / ystävällisin terveisin Eckhard Lenski Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG COO RA GERD BTS BR PDev CAE Lib&IBIS CAE libraries and models Balanstr. 59 81541 München Germany phone : +49 89 636 79002 NEW phone : +49 89 5159 17080 NEW fax : +49 89 636 78895 email: eckhard.lenski@xxxxxxx http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/ibis Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG Sitz der Gesellschaft: München / Registered office: Munich Registergericht: München / Commercial registry: Munich, HRA 88537 WEEE-Reg.-Nr.: DE 52984304 Persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin / General Partner: Nokia Siemens Networks Management GmbH Geschäftsleitung / Board of Directors: Lydia Sommer, Olaf Horsthemke Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats / Chairman of supervisory board: Lauri Kivinen Sitz der Gesellschaft: München / Registered office: Munich Registergericht: München / Commercial registry: Munich, HRB 163416 ________________________________ From: ibis-quality-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ibis-quality-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ext Anders Ekholm Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 10:59 AM To: ibis-quality@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ibis-quality] An observation on the 2.0 spec. Sections 5.3.8 & 5.2.9 [Pulldown] and [Pullup] IV tables pass through zero/zero In the text it says that typ. Min,max should all pass through approximately 0mA at the 0 Volt point. But we did not specify what we mean by approximately, maybe we should have ? 5%, 1%, 0.1%, 0.01% of which current ? The average current step in the table ? The minimum current step in the table? Maybe that's why we did not specify it, because it was unclear what to relate it too. It does seem a bit imprecise as it is and if anyone is trying to automate a quality checker, they will have to make a decision and since it is not specified in the Quality spec different quality checkers will make different decisions on what approximately means. Any comments? Best /Anders ANDERS EKHOLM M.Sc.E.E Expert Signal Integrity & Timing Analysis Ericsson AB FJB/DBA Färögatan 6 Stockholm, Sweden Phone +46107142758 Fax +46107172340 SMS/MMS +46709861707 anders.ekholm@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.ericsson.com This Communication is Confidential. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer <http://www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer>