Revision as of 17:37, 17 December 2007

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

2:00pm Fri 14-Dec-2007 Cebaf Center F326

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Minor rewording in Wiki pages: DAQ/Online/Controls ==> Trigger/DAQ/Monitoring/Controls.
Suggestion to form Hall D electronics pool.

Next meeting will be in Jan, date TBD.

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.

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:

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 '''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:'''
-'''Dave Doughty discussed how to include the tagger in the trigger:'''
 '''Elliott presented the list of online major milestones:'''