Latest revision as of 15:54, 30 June 2015

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Participant Direct Lines

• JLab Phone: in CC F326 is 757-269-6460 (usual room)
• JLab Phone in CC L207 is 757-269-7084
• Phone in the Regina Video-conference Suite is 306-585-4204
• Athens Phone: in Christina's office is 011-30-210-727-6947

Action Items

FA125's Useful Links

• FA250 modes 2 from Ed and Hai, Feb 18 2014
• FIRMWARE for FADC250 Ver2 ADC FPGA, Sept 2014?
• Format doc version 5.06, 23 June 2015
• Timing algorithm wiki page - updated to include latest revisions
• Data format for 250 modes on fADC125 from Cody, Aug 15 2014
• FDC_pulse_data_format
• CDC readout needs Garfield calcs

References

• Media:FADC125 DataFormat v5 06.pdf

Tentative Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Action Items
3. Introduction (Elton)
4. Priority List (all)
5. Any other business

Minutes

Attendees:Naomi, Will (CMU); Matt, Mark, Elton (JLab)

1. Announcements
2. Action Items
3. Introduction (Elton)
4. Comments (Naomi)
   • Note differences between data modes and data types. A readout mode often enables several data types.
   • Example: Mode 7 outputs data types 7, 8 and 10; Mode 8 outputs data types 4, 8,10
5. Comments (Elton)
   • Need 9 bits for channel id (slot 5 bits (0-31), channel 4 bits (0-15).
   • Need 14 bits for peak value (0-4095 + underflow + overflow)
   • Need >~16 bits for sum value (sum/peak ~ 15 for BCAL) + quality factor bits
   • Need >~15 for the FADC time (#samples x 64 > 400? x 64 = 25k).
   • Pedestal requirements? (depends strongly on algorithm)
   • Quality factors?
6. Questions (all)
   1. What is the impact of additional calorimeter data words on the GlueX rate capability? (David might be able to help with this).
   2. Pedestals: what is the best/optimal(?) method for pedestal determination and eventual subtraction from signal?
      • consider a rolling average in the hardware for all pedestals? (compute pedestal of each channel every trigger to make pedestal determination independent of rate in that channel)
      • Do we need to use multiple events to determine the pedestal?
      • How does integer division affect the pedestal determination?
      • Use a single word for pedestal information, which would easily allow dropping in data stream at high rates?
   3. Signal
      • Are there advantages to variable length integration window? (if so, need to store number of summed samples, or subtract pedestal on the fly)
      • Peak vs sum (or integral). Save both?
      • Consider integration of a few samples around the peak to give a more precise "peak" value?
   4. Abnormal conditions
      • What to do with pulses that extend beyond the end of the readout window? (reject?)
7. Any other business
8. Next meeting:
   • We are considering meeting on Tuesday at 1:30 pm, opposite to the F125 firmware meeting time. However, Matt has a conflict in two weeks.
   • Next meeting: 9 am Tue Jul 14 (not a regular time)