Online telecon notes for August 14, 2002

Attending:

• Zhigang Wang (UCSC/TKR)
• Connie Houchens (GSFC/ACD)
• Jim La (GSFC/ACD)
• Glen Unger (GSFC/ACD)
• Byron Leas (NRL/CAL)
• Mike Huffer (SLAC/ELX)
• Curt Brune (ELX/FSW)
• Alicia Kavelaars (SLAC/I&T-SVAC)
• Selim Tuvi (SLAC/I&T-Online), minutes author
   

• Core Online (Selim)
• Selim worked on the event capture for tracker by using Dan Wood's event server and Byron's python code. He was able to duplicate the output that Curt creates in his event walker. Byron suggested a Python package called scipy that can improve performance when parsing event data from a string.
• Alicia completed the LabVIEW write capability for TEM, TKR and AEM
• Alicia is exploring the use of QT Designer for future GUI work
• ELX (Mike)
• TEM
  • New TEM boards came back loaded
  • Leonid conducted tests
  • Curt will implement environmental monitoring in the libraries
  • Regression testing in progress
• AEM
  • Nothing new
  • Jim received documentation
  • Jim will  talk to Gunther to determine what is needed
  • Jim requests two additional VME crates along with hardware
• PSA
& Transition Board
• Work stalled  because of the ASICs testing
• Nothing new until TEM production is out of the door
• ACD (Connie)
• Received from Selim the modified LabVIEW vi that demonstrates how to receive values from the VME crate, will check with Selim if she has more problems.
• Connie has written SCL functions to convert engineering values to the internal values
• CAL (Byron)
  • Byron outlined a better mechanism for commanding and retrieving register data from the hardware through decom.
  • He is having problems setting up one of the decom frame records. Selim will check and get back to him.
  • Selim will send the new SCL VxWorks library to support record ids larger than 6000 (done)
  • Selim will check and if needed send the new libraries from Curt that fixes the dataless command bug (done)
  • Selim/Ric will check if NRL received one or two COMM boards. They claim to have one and need two more.
  • Assigned different record space for ACD a(5000-5999) nd NRL (6000-) for decom frame records. Post-meeting comment: Not sure if this is needed since they are in different databases anyway
• TKR (Zhigang)
• Selim received e-mail from Luca Latronico regarding the machines sent to Italy. They are still in customs
• He and Johann are trying to compile the source from the distribution CD, Selim provided them with the link to an updated source package.