Committee members,

Attending: John Angulo, Al Davis, Lynne Green, Arpad Muranyi, Stephen
Peters, Bob Ross

OLD BUSINESS AND A/R REVIEW

None

NEW BUSINESS

We agreed to use text files for draft specs on the web page.

Stephen confirmed that Lynne will continue to write the Macrolanguage
Reference Manual, and that John will draft the Library Guide.

Stephen said he would make two presentations at the PCB East summit meeting,
one presenting progress on IBIS-X, and the other progress on the connector
spec.  These two presentations will together last up to 20 minutes and will
summarize the major issues we've dealt with, what issues remain and give
tentative dates for publishing the specs.

Lynne said her summit meeting presentation would show macrolanguage examples
and could mention transmission line formats as well.  Al favored showing
macrolanguage examples of the fallback submodel or timing test load.  Bob
said the summit should allocate at least an hour for discussion of the
macrolanguage.

Al recommended we try to prototype some of the BIRDS under consideration for
IBIS 4.0 in the macrolanguage to test the macrolanguage, test the BIRDS, and
help us better understand and finalize the macrolanguage.  John took the AR
to try prototyping BIRD 62, regarding enhanced receiver thresholds.  Bob
agreed to try prototyping BIRD 71, adding timing test load parameters to
model spec, when he had time.  Al felt that the macrolanguage may need to be
amended to handle BIRD 64, regarding a "model selector" mechanism for
packages.  He said he would investigate it further.

Stephen proposed that we introduce IBIS-X to the Open Forum through a BIRD
for the [Define...] keyword.  He felt this would ease acceptance of IBIS-X
by introducing the essential idea of adding new models without forcing the
committee to ponder the macrolanguage immediately.  Al supported this idea,
and Bob said formal discussion within the futures group could follow a
write-up.  Stephen predicted the BIRD could be put forward in January.

Regarding the topics outline for the macrolanguage reference manual, Al
recommended listing syntax rules and guidelines just once.  He thought we
might document explicit declarations and control statements in separate
sections.  Al also suggested we add a data structure called text block.

Stephen pointed out that the expressions chapter must contain rules for
which signals are in scope.  He said we need to conclude discussion on
primitive elements and that we have not yet discussed built in behavioral
elements.  He said he would examine the status of macrolanguage
documentation to identify major points that can be considered milestones, so
we can track our progress.

Next IBIS-X Committee Meeting: 2 pm, 9/6