Hi, Bottom line on top: Any interest in using and/or contributing to an IBIS model directory by use of a wiki such as wikipedia? Please vote in this informal straw poll: http://signal-integrity.tm.agilent.com/2010/crowdsource-ibis-models-directory/ ...and/or leave a comment there, and/or comment to this thread. Backstory: I posted the message below to the IBIS lists, but was disappointed that the response was fairly mute. So, I'm posting it here in the hope it will resonate with si-listers. (If you are also on the IBIS lists, this is a duplicate. Sorry!) Best regards, -- Colin Warwick Signal Integrity Product Manager, Agilent EEsof EDA -----Original Message----- From: WARWICK,COLIN Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:59 AM To: IBIS-Interconnect; 'ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Straw poll and call for comments: Crowdsource IBIS model directory by use of a wiki such as wikipedia? Hi, I get several emails a month from customers asking "Is there an IBIS model for XYZ part from ABC IC vendor". I usually point them at: http://www.teraspeed.com/ibis_resources.html http://www.eigroup.org/ibis/ibis%20table/models.htm If the info is out-of-date (as is often the case), I ask them to do an advanced Google search like: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=IBIS+site:someicvendordomain.com (replace someicvendordomain.com with the IC vendor's domain, obviously) But I'm wondering if there's a better way than "spray and pray" Googling or burdening a single librarian with hundreds of update requests. Sooo...How about crowdsourcing? "Crowd-what-ing," you say? Here's a definition from wikipedia: 'Crowdsourcing is a neologistic compound of Crowd and Outsourcing for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group of people or community, through an "open call" to a large group of people (a crowd) asking for contributions.' (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing ) Specifically, I'm wondering if we should create a table off of the main IBIS page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_Output_Buffer_Information_Specification ...(or some other wiki) for IC vendors to update their info themselves. It would look something like this prototype I cobbled together: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Woz2/Input_Output_Buffer_Information_Specification/Table_of_IBIS_models Thoughts? Please vote in this informal straw poll: http://signal-integrity.tm.agilent.com/2010/crowdsource-ibis-models-directory/ and/or leave a comment there, and/or comment to this thread. Best regards, -- Colin Warwick Signal Integrity Product Manager, Agilent EEsof EDA ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu