Online telecon notes for July 10, 2002.
Attending:
- Zhigang Wang (UCSC/TKR)
- Connie Houchens (GSFC/ACD)
- Jim La (GSFC/ACD)
- Byron Leas (NRL/CAL)
- Mike Huffer (SLAC/ELX)
- Larry Wai (SLAC/I&T-IFCT)
- Alicia Kavelaars (SLAC/I&T-SVAC)
- Dave Lung (SLAC/IOC)
- JJ Russell (SLAC/FSW)
- Selim Tuvi
(SLAC/I&T-Online)
- Ric Claus
(SLAC/I&T-Online), minutes author
- Core Online (Ric and Selim)
- Tracker support, Dave Nelson has the hardware
- ICD almost complete
- Electronics (Mike and Curt)
- TEM still in layout – Issues still being worked out
- No new progress on AEM for reasons reported last week
- Worked on a problem reported by Byron (THROTTLE_DISABLE)
- Default value of the MASK register is now different
- Issue with how to send down CALSTROBE – via dataless command or
trigger message
- Behavioral difference between the two methods needs to be ironed
out
- CAL (Byron)
- Bug in CAL regarding dataless commands?
- Mike Honda is sending some sample scripts to Mike Huffer
- ACD (Connie and Jim)
- Constraints with AEM
- GARC register values are constrained in bud box but not GAFE
registers, as these are just memory
- LabVIEW work with AEM, conversion Vis (counts to engineering
units)
- Actual AEM hardware expected in October
- No scripts in preparation yet for testing this hardware
- Byron: InitCTEM compile problems with the P01-03-00 update. Byron
will e-mail Selim the details.
- Byron claims performance has not improved with the new update
- Exercises the hardware through Python to SCL bridge
- Ric points out that this path makes it difficult to share
code. People at SLAC can’t reliably
reproduce a problem when they can’t run the same code.
- Selim requests that Byron run TemSimMain to verify register
access rate
- Discussion on Python vs SCL for implementing tests
- Byron points out that some sort of mechanism to interact with
both the registers (command/response) and event data taking is a
requirement. The combination of Python
with access to SCL and Dan Wood’s event distributor gives him that.