1996 ===== Jan 17 - Status of SRC (Silicon Readout Controllers) John Oliver & Colin Gay - Progress on the IFT Level 1 trigger Roberto Amendolia Jan 31 - Proposed plans for cooling system in collision hall, counting and trigger rooms : Steve Hahn Feb 14 - New VME-Access software: Jim Pangburn - L2 reject and TSI protocol M. Schmidt - Simulations of using scan buffers H. Kasha & M. Schmidt Feb 28 - Status of VIPA crate: Ed Barsotti & Bob Downing - Status Report on Tracking TDC Myron Campbell Mar 13 (mini-reviews) Status of LV1 Calorimeter trigger Peter Wilson & co Status of LV2 Calorimeter trigger Myron Campbell & co Apr 10 Status of SVX3 chip Tood Huffman Status of Port card Walter Knopf VRB: Status report Mark Bowden SVT status report I Luciano Ristori SVT status report II Ray Culbertson Apr 24 (mini-reviews) Status of XTRP/LV1 track Lee Holloway & co Status of Muon trigger Jay Chapman & co Discussion on timing diagram all May 1 - XFT/IFT/XTRP path - What should be presented as our baseline "Global trigger system" diagram for TDR (include IFT? FMU?) May 8 Further discussions on the baseline "Global trigger system" - Thoughts on options/directions: Myron - Guideline for the definition of "baseline": Cath or Bob (tbc) plus other usual suspects: Peter, Jonathan, Tom... May 16 Conceptual Design of XFTII : Richard Hughes, Terri Shaw Report on IFT trigger issues : TBA Settle on the baseline "Global trigger system" : all May 22 Error rate of G-link - Summary Ed Barsotti - SVT group's thoughts Ray Culbertson/Peter Wilson Online computing status Jim Patrick & co Offline computing Rob & Liz Jun 5 Calorimeter frontend (ADC) mini-review Final summary of specs Vaia Papadimitriou Status of QIE chip + FADC, Charlie Nelson Status of VME/SMT board design, Latest clock tick counts & Calibration plan/circuits Plans for crate location, mounting, cooling Steve Hahn Plans for testbeam and vertical slice test & Mike Lindgren Manpower needs Jun 12 TeV Monitor(status report) Rick Vidal Muon trigger rate studies Jonathan Lewis Run2 strawman trigger table Greg Feild Jun 19 (special meeting) Brief status report on JMC96 Myron & Jay and proposed plan for VME modules Summary of Requirements for COT and muon Kevin & Phil - summary of specs on input & output - cable/connector considerations - calibration plans Discussion: One or two types of TDC modules? all Compile list of Myron & Jay - missing specs (from COT and muon groups) - task list (ie. who is going to do what: design/prototype of TDC module(s), calibration system, any other adapter or aux cards, test with detectors...) - contact persons for each task Jun 19 Clock: updated plan for CDF Maeshima & co. TSI(mini-review) Schmidt Hadron TDC(mini-review) Cordelli Jul 10 Scanner CPU(status report) Paris & co Level3 Plan Paris & co Jul 17 Catch those good VIBErations: John Wahl Teststand software for the future Discussions on all - debugging & calibration scenario - error handling (detection/recovery) - startup/reset scenario Jul 24 XFTII (mini-review) Hughes * Jul 31 CDF crate documents & delivery schedule Ed Barsoti Discussions on all - Things-to-do-list at the Michigan workshop - Draft of TSI dictionary (DAQ Manager's Notebook) Aug 14 Options on XFT Finder Jay Chapman Remote Object Broker (ROBIN) Ryan Pierce/Jim Pangburn - A network programming framework to invoke complex functions on the VME embedded controller from a remote host - Discussion on Greg Feild/Michael TSI Dictionary Trigger Simulation group (sign-up) Aug 21-23 2nd Workshop of Frontend/Trigger Electronics & DAQ Upgrade Ann Arbor, Michigan Sep 11 Crate/Rack layout Hahn/Lewis - for the collision hall : SVX, COT, CAL, MUON System Integration Lewis - status of module data base Startup/reset scenarios of SVT Luciano Ristori - Associative Memory & Hit Buffer Proposal of Run 2 trigger table Tecchio - physics driven structure Trigger Simulation Working Group Lewis/Tecchio - making plans Sep 18 Discussion for Crate/Rack layout - for the collision hall : SVX, COT, CAL, MUON Timing Diagram - updates, discussions Wilson/Schmidt Sep 25 Tracking TDC related issues - Summary of TDC 96 ch board Myron - Proposed calib signal from TRACER Terri - COT calibration plan Kevin Pitts Discussion on variable length data transfer Patrick - Proposal of how it will be done Myron - Specs on address map Terri Oct 2 The "baseline" plan of muon upgrade system (central + IMU) Lecompte & Co. - summary of detector segmentation (clarification of "2 additional CMX wedge on west side", mini-skirt plan) - total number of channels, #ch/segmentation... - highlights of frontend electronics (especially related points to either TDC or trigger) - break down of which piece of electronics resides where - any special cases (such as using rabbit crate with old style ASD?) Oct 9 Muon Trigger design issues Chapman/LeCompte - Remaining questions about detector configuration - Interconnection - Issues regarding CSX mean-timed signal Discussion on Data alignment & synchronization Chapman/Feild Oct 16 Crate/Rack layout Hahn (collision hall, 1st floor, 2nd floor) Updated Level 1 timing diagram Eric/Aesook Oct 23 (special meeting) - collider: interaction parameters, beam turning scenario Paul Derwent - SVX: alignment spec, procedure Rick Snider - SVT: run condition requirements and assumptions Luciano Ristori Oct 23 XFT current design, status and high eta option - Richard Hughes Current XTRP design and how tight things are to squeeze more in - Lee Holloway/ Bob Downing Updates on IMU rate studies or simulations - Tom/Jaco Thoughts on implementation of high eta tracking in trigger system - Myron/Peter Discussion: List of things to_do/to_be_answered and "victims" - All Oct 30 "VIPA VMEbus Module, Transition Module & System Design Guidelines" - Ed Barsotti, Bob Downing & Bill Haynes Nov 6 Shower Max Detector electronics(mini-review) Summary of CES nosie studies Karen Byrum/Gary Drake SMX DAQ Overview Gary Drake SMQIE Digital Storage Jim Hoff Preamp/Digitizer board and Crate Gary Drake VME Readout Board Paul Kasley TSI - Status Report M Schmidt Nov 20 Grounding/Shielding workshop time detector system speaker 8:30 - 9:30 SVX/ISL Todd Huffman 9:30 - 10:10 Calorimeter Charlie Nelson 10:20 - 10:50 30 min break 10:50 - 12:00 Shower max type detectors Gray Drake 12:00 - 1:30 1.5hr lunch break 1:30 - 2:00 CLOCK Steve Chappa 2:00 - 3:00 CMP preamps and CMU Vaidas Simaitis 3:00 - 3:00 30 min break 3:30 - 4:30 CMP and CMX Jonathan Lewis 4:30 - 5:30 COT Morri Binkley Dec 4 Run2 Trigger cross sections H Jensen - Draft document for answer to PAC : Summary and discussion CDF crate: Status report and schedule DeMaat/Hahn Specs & Definitions of Offline Software Buckley/Plunkett - Frame work (data format, bank structure, and tools (event display, histogramming, unpacking...)) - Database (calibration, run condition/run summary) - Data storage/data logging Dec 5 Introduction & guideline for Run2 online software Jim Patrick & Jim Pangburn Dec 11 Performance Summary of QIE in KTeV Bob Tschrihart Status report of CDF QIE & ADMEM Charlie Nelson Near term plans for prototype tests Mike Lindgren Dec 18 XFTII(mini-review) Hughes/Freeman & Co.