Annual Electronics/DAQ upgrade Workshop
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        Time:   Oct 27-29 (Mon-Wed), 1997
        Place:  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


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* Oct 27 *
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Time				
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 8:30 - 8:45	Welcome			Myron


Time				
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 8:45 - 12:30			

   Status of subsystems which are close to starting production 
   (ADMEM, DIRAC, COT ASD, TDC, SVX DAQ, TRACER, VRB)
     - Brief status
     - Unresolved issues, problems, useful lessons 
     - Current schedule 


   8:45 -  9:20		ADMEM 		Charlie Nelson
   9:20 -  9:45		DIRAC 		Mel Shochet
   9:45 - 10:10		COT ASD		Kevin Pitts
  10:10 - 10:45		TDC		Myron Campbell
  10:45 - 11:10		   ** Coffee Break **
  11:10 - 11:50		SVX DAQ		Colin Gay
  11:50 - 12:30	   	TRACER, VRB &
		    Vertical Slice Test Jim Patrick
			



  12:30 -  1:30  	   ** Lunch **



Time				Session Chairs
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 1:30 - 6:00			GWF & PJW

  1:30 -  2:10 
   Timing-in signals & synchronization 
     - Do we have enough adjustability in the current design?
	  Summary talk on TRACER, Clock and TSI		Peter Wilson
	  Summary talk on SRC, Clock and TSI		Colin Gay

  2:10 -  4:00
     - How each subsystem will be timed-in
     - Where dose B0 marker should get passed and checked?
     - Saving info about previous and/or next crossing?  (ex: sum Et)
          SVX/SVT               Gay/Culbertson
 	  COT/TDC/XFT/XTRP      Pitts/Campbell/Winer/Kasten
	  Calorimeter           Shaw/Drake/Wilson/Truitt
          Muon/TDC/Muon Trg     James


  4:00 -  4:30   ** Coffee Break **


  4:30 -  6:00
          Global trg/TSI        Schmidt/Campbell

   Error detection, handling & recovery
     - Compile error list in each subsystem
     - Make criteria on error handling & recovery
     - Compile diagnostic readout list
	  SVX/SVT		Gay/Culbertson
	  COT/TDC/XFT/XTRP      Pitts/Campbell/Winer/Kasten
	  Calorimeter           Shaw/Drake/Wilson/Truitt
	  Muon/TDC/Muon Trg	James
	  Global trg/TSI	Schmidt/Campbell


Time		
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 8:00pm - 10:00pm		Breakout sessions 
		(Groups should contact Myron or Jay for room reservation)

	Group 1  Lv2 interface boards & SVT/LV2 protocol
	Group 2  Luminosity Monitor, TOF electronics
	Group 3  Level 3 structure




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* Oct 28 *
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Time				Session Chair
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 8:30 - 10:00			GWF & PJW

   Error detection, handling & recovery  (continue)
     - Compile error list in each subsystem
     - Make criteria on error handling & recovery
     - Compile diagnostic readout list
	  Calorimeter           Shaw/Drake/Wilson/Truitt
	  Muon/TDC/Muon Trg	James
	  Global trg/TSI	Schmidt/Campbell


 10:00  - 10:20		** Coffee Break **


 10:20  - 12:00 		Myron
   Level2 Trigger architecture
     - Finalize input list & Lv2 architecture
     - Address algorithm and software issues
     - Estimate Lv2 processing time (timing diagram)


 12:00  -  1:00		** Lunch **


  1:00 -  3:00			Kevin
   Level3 Trigger architecture
     - Compile input list (raw data + info passed from Lv1 & Lv2 trigger)
     - Discuss regional reconstruction 
     - Address algorithm and software issues


  3:00  -  3:20		** Coffee Break **

  3:20 -  3:50			GWF 
     - Ways of tapping out frontend signals (ex: use of scope card...)
	  COT			Pitts/VenBerg
	  Calorimeter		Nelson



Time				Session Chair
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  3:50 - 5:30			Jim Patrick

   Templates for Online software
     - Data taking
     - Online Monitoring (consumer processes)
     - Diagnostic
     - Debugging
     - Teststand


  6:30 -	Group Dinner
 



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* Oct 29 *
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  8:30 - 9:40  Infrastructure, System Control & Monitoring 	Steve Hahn
     - Review current specs & plans (power supply, rack monitoring)
     - Identify missing items

  9:40  - 10:20		** Coffee Break **


Time				Session Chair
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 10:20 - 12:00			Jim Patrick  
   Run Condition Database
     - Define structure, contents, size
	(trigger condition, calibration, pedestal, detector condition etc)
     - Hardware condition data base (FPGA, contents of FRAM etc)
	  SVX/SVT		Gay/Culbertson
	  COT/TDC/XFT/XTRP      Pitts/Campbell/Winer/Kasten
	  Calorimeter           Shaw/Drake/Wilson/Truitt
	  Muon/TDC/Muon Trg	James
	  Global trg/TSI	Schmidt/Campbell


  12:00 -  1:00  	   ** Lunch **



Time				Session Chair
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 1:00 - 4:40 			Jay Chapman 

   Review schedule & manpower for each subsystem
     - Go over task list and schedules for next one year
     - Identify tasks which need more manpower 
     _ Job list data base

   20 min/group * 11 = 220 min
	Online software, data storage		Patrick
	FNAL(Electronics Infrastructure)	DeMaat
	ANL/FNAL (Shower max/Hadron TDC)	Drake/Lindgren
 	U of Chicago (Lv1 decision, SVT)	Mel Shochet
	Yale(Lv1 decision, TSI)			Greg Feild
	Michigan 1 (Muon trigger)		Chapman
	OSU/FNAL(XFT)				Hughes
	Illinois (XTRP, Muon frontend)		Kasten
	Michigan 2 (Lv2 trigger)		Campbell
	PISA & Geneva (SVT)			??
	MIT (ATM, event building, LV3)		McFarland

					

Time			
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 4:40 - 5:30	Workshop Summary 
		 (+ Bill's Top 10 problem list)