OWG meeting 14-Dec-2007
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Contents
Agenda
- Review of minutes from 29-Nov-2007 meeting
- Progress and milestones from JLab Electronics Group - Chris C.
- Tagger in trigger - Dave D.
- Online milestones for Subsystem review May-2008 and CD-3 review Jul-2008- Elliott
- Online Action Items
Time/Location
2:00pm Fri 14-Dec-2007 Cebaf Center F326
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Announcements
- Minor rewording in Wiki pages: DAQ/Online/Controls ==> Trigger/DAQ/Monitoring/Controls.
- Suggestion to form Hall D electronics pool.
Next Meeting
Next meeting will be in Jan, date TBD.
New Action Items from this Meeting
- Add to online milestones document (Elliott):
- more specific electronics milestones
- demonstration of full crate-sum trigger readout
- add dates for each milestone
- Give Elke items for the Hall D Action Item Tracker (Elliott)
- more detailed than major milestonen
- include names, dates, etc.
Minutes
Attendees: Elliott W, Dave A, Chris C, Fernando B, Mark I, Elton S, Dave D, Ed J, Carl T, Simon T.
Chris Cuevas gave an update on electronics:
- Many specs and drawings in draft state, prototypes are coming.
- Manpower is a big problem given deadlines, esp. for the crate-sum module.
- Two more 20-slot VXS crates on order.
- Slightly behind on FADC October milestones, no full crate tests yet.
- Hai will work on FADC after completing an Accelerator project.
- New hire will arrive in Jan, will work on VXS backplane clock distribution.
- Some discussion ensued concerning what must be demonstrated for the subsystem and CD-3 reviews.
- critical items not yet demonstrated.
- More discussion about subsystem review May 2008, scope is what has not been previously reviewed (Trigger, DAQ, etc).
- CD-3 (Lehman) review will view reports of other subsystem reviews, but likely will not probe more deeply.
Chris discussed results of manpower meeting with Claus et al:
- It seems clear that the DAQ and Electronics groups will meet milestones with their current manpower.
- Tentative agreement to try to get funding for two new DAQ positions and one new Electronics position.
- Hope is to label them "critical hires" to avoid hiring freeze.
- Timeline for hiring not clear yet.
- Of the DAQ group hires, one will work with Dave A, the other with Ed J.
Dave Doughty discussed how to include the tagger in the trigger:
Elliott presented the list of online major milestones: