Level 2 Trigger Review - Dec 7 2001

Location: Wilson Hall 1 North

Charge to the committee

Report from the Review Committee

• Introductions
  • 8:00 Exec. session
  • 8:30 Introduction : Jeff/Nigel - 10 min
    • CDF collaboration needs for the trigger
    • through summer 2002, and the rest of Run 2a
  • 8:45 Plan and goals from September L2 Workshop : Peter/Luciano - 15 min Also in powerpoint
  • 9:10 L2 and trigger table requirements to meet CDF goals : Jonathan Lewis-15 min Also in Powerpoint
    • Hardware needed
    • Algorithms needed
    • L1 rates
    9:35 Overall Level 2 status and near term plan : Stephen Miller - 25 min Also in Powerpoint
    • Refer to Workshop goals
    • Proposed trigger configuration for January - hardware and software
    • Operations(coverage), manpower, documentation
• Coffee-20 min
• Hardware Topics:
  • 10:30 Magic bus 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . Myron Campbell - 20 min
    • Motivation for new MB - Original backplane design and problems
    • Refer to Workshop goals
    • Current board status and test results
    • Plans for further testing
  • 11:00 Alpha : Stephen Miller - 20 min Also in Powerpoint
    • Overview
    • Status of production boards
    • Workshop goals - tests with multiple alphas, reces readout
    • Debug software status
    • Plans for further testing
  • 11:30 Interface boards : David Saltzberg - 30 min Also in Powerpoint
    • Overview - L1, CLIST, Tracklist(SVT, XTRP)
    • Status of production boards>
    • Refer to Workshop goals
    • Debug software status
    • Plans for further testing(+ RECES, ISOLIST)
• Software:
  • 12:10 Alpha code : Peter Wittich - 20 min Also in Powerpoint
    • Overview - what it supposed to do?
    • Algorithms
    • Error Handling code
    • Code management
    • Connection to trigger DB
    • Code testing
    • Plan, schedule, manpower
• Lunch(12:00-13:00)
  • 13:30 Monitoring: Trigmon/XMON - Matt Worcester and L2 Sim - Nate Goldschmidt - 15 min
    • Overview - what is monitored?
    • Plans for integration into unified package
    • Documentation status
• Test stands and Backups:
  • 13:50 Improved Test stand hardware : Ted Liu - 20 min
    • Test stand needs
    • Magical mystery board - Data sink
    • L2 PULSAR - Data source
    • How would this system work?
  • 14:20 SVT as a L2 processor : Bill Ashmanskas - 20 min Also in powerpoint
    • Overview
    • Workshop goals
    • Implementation options for parallel operation
• 15:00 Break
• 15:15 Summary, general questions: roundtable - 15 min
• 15:30 Exec. Session: committee - 30 min
• End 16:00

• Level 2 Trigger Workshop - 7-8 Sept 2001 at FNAL
• Trigger upgrade web page with links to some L2 Documentation.
• Trigger operations web page Under development. Expert and non-expert documentatio which will include specification documents, schematics etc.

• Mike Lindgren - Chair
• Aesook Byon-Wagner
• Bob DeMaat
• Bill Foster
• Harold Sanders
• Michael Schmidt
• Mel Shochet
• Rick Van Berg
• Luciano Ristori - Ex-officio
• Peter Wilson - Ex-officio