• Introduction
• Mark Harris gave greetings to the group and summarized the background of RP1461 and activity to date. Key points include development of a working table of contents, module classification scheme, and a glossary. A focus group subcommittee has been developing this material using conference calls on a (approximately) monthly basis. Mark also announced Dennis Darcy's change in employment and resignation as chair from the committee. Mark indicated Dennis's willingness to continue to participate in the work of the committee.
• Review of agenda
• Mark proposed the agenda for the meeting.
• A question was raised as to whether there is full access to web site minutes. Mark will investigate.
• Review of actions
• Progress has been slow due to changes in position and workload among the active group members.
• Yuri K. mentioned that Mitsubishi has an approach to intelligent module segmentation that we should investigate (no action?). He also mentioned that IEEE has a newly formed standards infrastructure group.
• Thanks were noted to Mark Harris for his work on RP1461
• Officers
• A slate of officers was presented to the meeting, as nominated by Jason Lai:
• Chair - Mark Harris
• Co-chair - Sunil Chaya, Jeff Fishbein
• Secretary - Rob Lankin
• Action Item: Jason Lai will approach Dick Hoft as Technical Editor
• Scope/Purpose
• Near term objectives
• Need to revisit module classification
• Need to revisit table of contents
• Action Item: Distribute the current glossary and ask for comment
• Action Item: Yuri and Mark to discuss IEEE resources for electronic support
• Presentation: Rob Lankin presented a Straw Man power module specification as a discussion piece.
• From the discussion:
• Action Item: Rob Lankin to post this presentation to the web site
• Action Item: Joe Walters volunteered to review thermal and mechanical packaging practices
• Action Item: Larry Reinhart volunteered to review the module classification scheme
• Action Item: Larry Reinhart volunteered to submit a PWM interface protocol specification
• Action Item: Jason Lai to present TDR technique for validating parasitics
• Next Meetings Tentatively:
• APEC - Mar 14-18, 1999 Dallas Texas
• IAS - Oct 3-7, 1999 Phoenix AZ
• Possibly a workshop in June