Thoughts on Muon Board Commissioning

1. Establish correct receipt of data from Muon Match box
   • This should be done by reading out all data over VME during regular data taking. There could be a diagnostic bank created with the same structure as TCMD to allow easy bit-for-bit comparison with TCMD in TRIGMON.
   • If there is any question about Magic-Bus interference, this could be started with the board in crate other than L2 Decision (L2 Control, Diagnostic Crate). This could also have advantage of permitting Fred to do diagnostics on the board during data taking without interfering with operation of L2 Decision crate.
   • When summary data is available, this data can also be readout over VME and added to the bank or a new bank created. Even if this is ready when the board arrives at B0, doing the bit-for-bit should be done first.
   • This diagnostic bank could be retained and readout on our TRIGMON events
   • Someone could be working on the TRIGMON routine for this NOW if we can find that person.
2. Once data integrity is established at input to Muon board, start testing transmission over MBus to Alpha
   • Need to move into the L2 decision crate
   • Keep reading out the diagnostic bank and now do a bit-for-bit comparision of the summary words between the ones read out from alpha and ones from Muon Interface. This could just be added to TRIGMON module written for 1.
   • If there are problems with interence with other interface boards, might want to start by having Muon board and Alpha alone in lower crate. Have that alpha just readout the muon board and generate a bank. This would require some work because what you would want is for Lower crate to be used just to readout the muon board but not make decision. I guess this means diferent Alpha code.
   • After this is done one is in principal ready to test trigger algorithms.
3. Algorithms
   • In parallel with the hardware commissioning the methods for how to use the muon data need to be developed. This is not a trivial task. It has impact on whether or not PIO is actually used.
   • Are there questions that should be worked on people outside L2 group now? For example, how will IMU data actually be used?