Chan, Michael wrote:
> The interesting outcome on the low priority of assigning people to work
> on the latest version of IBIS from the EDA firms is that the system
> engineers will
> always be the first to receive the latest version of IBIS models from the
> IC vendors while at the same time cannot work on any EDA tool at all !!!!!!
>
> MC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Leventhal [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:20 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : response to semiconductor I/O edge rates
>
> To All, or No One In Particular:
>
> Which came first: The chicken, the egg, or the ruptured duck?
>
> We're sitting here with a programmable part that I can only deal with in a
> horse-and-buggy fashion
> (funny how that "buggy" word keeps turning up in talking about EDA) on a
> current hot project.
>
> Wouldn't even have found out much about the lack of implementation of
> programmable devices in IBIS
> if I hadn't been working on another issue: A supplier (different one folks)
> who
> doesn't seem to understand
> the [ Pin ] keyword and the necessity to tell the simulator, by pin number,
> which I/O cell characteristic to use.
>
> Say, D.C. how long have the conventions for the [ Pin ] keyword been
> published?
>
> Damm! N'other burr under my saddle!
>
> Roy
>
> "D. C. Sessions" <[email protected]> on 07/16/99 11:13:11 AM
>
> Please respond to [email protected]
>
> Sent by: "D. C. Sessions" <[email protected]>
>
> To: [email protected]
> cc: (Roy Leventhal/MW/US/3Com)
> Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : response to semiconductor I/O edge rates
>
> Roy Leventhal wrote:
> >
> > Good points about etch length and edge rates.
> >
> > Somewhere else in the discussions the issue of programmable drive was also
> > brought up. We are using progarmmable drive strength and a fixed series
> source
> > terminator (selected by daughter card loading) in at least one instance.
> >
> > Does anyone know a signal integrity simulator that is up to snuff on IBIS
> 3.2
> > especially with regard to the conventions on programmable devices and has
> > automated the handling of such parts?
>
> The EDA members of the IBIS committee report that their managements have
> assigned IBIS 3.x support a low priority due to lack of customer demand.
>
> --
> D. C. Sessions
> [email protected]
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