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.