Calorimeter Front-end Electronics Workshop
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Time:   Thursday,  Oct 15th, 1998  9:00-5:30
Place:  ANL
Organizers: Karen Byrum, Mike Lindgren, Larry Nodulman, Jimmy Proudfoot
 
 
 
Session I        9:00 - 11:30                   Hardware
 
   - summary of tests done so far
   - current status (ie. what's been crossed out as "meet the spec")
     and list of problems still need to be solved. Check list should include
     boards, transition modules, and cables.
 
 9:00-10:20     Calorimeter ADC                         Mike Lindgren
                (Charlie, Steve, HaoWei, Howard, HongChen, Willis)
 
10:20-11:00     Shower max front-end                    Gray Drake
                (Jin-Yuan, Craig, John, Jimmy, ...)
 
11:00-11:15     Break
 
11:15-11:30     Calibration cards                       Michele Gallinaro
 
 
 
Session II      11:30 - 2:10                    System Integration
 
11:30-11:50     power supply                            Peter Wilson/Gary Drake
11:50-12:15     mechanical mounting, cable dressing
                cooling issues                          Rob Roser
12:15-12:30     grounding issues                        John Elias
 
 
12:30- 1:30     Lunch
 
 1:30- 2:10     signal time-in                          Karen Byrum
                (ADMEM, SMX)
 
 
 
Session III      2:10 - 5:30                            Software & Protocols
                                    (Calorimeter ADC and Shower max front-end)
 
 2:10- 3:40  Online software                    Frank Chlebana/Jim Proudfoot
                - what's available now
                - list of final software packages needed (to reside in B0) and
                  who will be working on them in what time scale
 
        * Ingredients for Online (B0) Software packages to be discussed are:
          common routines
              - Initialization (cold & warm start)
              - hardware confirmation  (board swap, proper down loaded files,
                   look-up tables, calibration constants)
              - error recovery
              - end-run
           board specific
              - calibration
              - diagnostic
              - debugging
 
 3:40- 4:00  Break
 
 4:00- 5:30  System protocols                   Michael Schmidt/Peter Wilson
        * regarding Run_Initialization (start-up)
           - what gets down loaded from where (for warm and cold start-up)?
                FRAM
                Crate CPU
                Calibration data base
           - what to be checked and/or stored?
                rewrite entire content
                keep track of only partial changes?
                keep track of only version #?
        * Error/Halt/Recover (lot of these are for SMX)
          - list of errors and what kind of checks will be done?
          - error reporting
          - have any status bits into event data stream?
          - how error line gets cleared
          - loss synchronize -> what happens?
          - how to resynchronize?
          - event lost -> tag? or pull error?
          - local recover (condition and procedure)
          - global recover (condition and procedure)
          - list of resets