Online telecon notes for September 4, 2002

Attending:

• Connie Houchens (GSFC/ACD)
• Sharon Orsborne (GSFC/ACD)
• Jim La (GSFC/ACD)
• Mike Huffer (SLAC/ELX)
• JJ Russell (SLAC/FSW)
• Eduardo do Couto e Silva (SLAC/I&T-SVAC)
• Larry Wai (SLAC/I&T-IFCT)
• Selim Tuvi (SLAC/I&T-Online)
• Ric Claus (SLAC/I&T-Online), minutes author

Topics:

• ACD (Connie)
• Submitted scripts to Online
• Documentation on the EU scripts needs updating to make it compliant with the ACD ICD
• Studying Python
• Ric to post titles of books on Python, etc. that Online found useful
• Connie asked about needing Visual Studio on the test stand workstation in order to compile C++ generated by Qt
• Compilation is not necessarily needed since we use the PyQt statically linked package
• PyQt is available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/download.php. The relevant package is PyQt-3.3-Qt-NC.exe
• Jim asked whether there are any software components subsystems should expect to buy when we transition to the follow-on-to-SCL system, e.g. Visual Studio, Qt Pro, etc.
• Ric responded that Online would supply all required packages for the new system
• Jim asked whether subsystems should continue with the SCL based system
• Ric responded that that should most certainly be done. No decision has as yet been taken on a potential follow-on system. We await reaction to a follow-on system proposal to which SCL scripts will be more or less easily translatable.
• ACD (Jim)
• Glen (ACD/ELX) is not ready to hand over ASICs for testing with Connie’s scripts
• Expects hand-over to happen in a couple of weeks
• Mike points out there are packaging issues with the RC and FE ASICs of all types, so testable parts are in extremely short supply
• CAL (Byron)
• Byron was not able to attend the meeting so his e-mailed progress report is inserted verbatim here:

1. Successfully tested Selim's fix for the NT Bitfield problem.

2. Successfully tested Selim's telemetry synchronization SCL variable using his test procedure.

3. Working to implement Selim's telemetry synchronization method into Dan Wood's telemetry routine. Having some problems calling Selim's routines; setEvtCallbackFunc and evHandlerTEM_SCL. Need to get the prototype definitions for these routines...the definitions I made temporarily don't seem to work.

4. Working on upgrading the CAL regression test to include TEM and CC registers.

• Selim has responded to Byron’s third point by sending him the function prototypes
• TKR (Zhigang)
• Zhigang was not able to attend the meeting. His e-mailed progress report is as follows:
• last week, I still worked on the test for the new version front-end chips.
• I am eager to get the new test stand system as soon as possible.
• ELX (Mike)
• No progress on the AEM. Still on target for completion in late fall.
• TEM testing is on hold
• TEM and PSA enclosure bid completed
• Transition and PSA boards are in layout. Expect a couple of weeks until the arrival of the first unit.
• LCB board is awaiting a new engineer to come on board and get up to speed
• Curt is in the process of validating the TKR FE ASICs
• CAL AFEE boards have been received last Friday. An RC and 2 FE previous generation ASICs will be loaded for testing.
• Core Online (Ric and Selim)
• The Test Executive Trade Study was discussed
• Subsystem feedback is requested by next Monday
• Spacecraft vendor announced: SpectrumAstro
• The calibration scripts listed in Eduardo’s signed-off Calibration document discussed
• CAL and TKR scripts were to be delivered to Online from subsystems at the end of July
• New date is September 25. Once blessed by Online, the scripts go to IFCT/Larry for production testing