Online telecon notes for October 23, 2002

Attending:

• Connie Houchens (GSFC/ACD)
• Sharon Orsborne (GSFC/ACD)
• Jim La (GSFC/ACD)
• Byron Leas (NRL/CAL)
• Dave Nelson (SLAC/TKR, ELX)
• Curt Brune (SLAC/FSW)
• Selim Tuvi (SLAC/I&T-Online)
• Ric Claus (SLAC/I&T-Online), minutes author

Topics:

• Core (Selim, Ric):
• We’ve been preparing for the workshop we’re holding next week
• Reminded people to bring their front end electronics and cables if they can
• We may be able to borrow the CAL AFEE board from M. Freytag for the workshop
• Byron will see whether he can bring one of the NRL AFEE boards
• Need to verify that NRL’s cables will connect to the new TEM

q Byron says they have Chrystechs on the AFEE end

q Post meeting note: Need a 25 pin “D” connector (not the usual old style kind) on the TEM side

• ACD will FedEx their front end board and cables to us for arrival on Friday
• Request for input on the Workshop Agenda
• Connie requested we move up the Cmd/Tlm discussion to Tues or Wed so that Sharon can partake. Ric will see try to arrange that.
• Selim released P00-09-01 with a special NRL version of the GTEM library for their new version RC, and additional schema and configuration support
• Selim’s and Alicia’s goal is to work on getting some Qt examples going for the workshop
• ELX/FSW (Curt):
• PSA is ready
• The new TEMs and transition boards (XBrd) have A and B redundant paths for commanding, data taking and triggering. Curt is testing these.
• ACD (Connie, Sharon and Jim):
• Connie loaded all their systems with the latest Online release
• Verified that registers could be read and written with the Python code
• Looking at EGU conversions and wonders whether tuples can be used
• Okay with Online: whatever works efficiently (both memory wise and execution time)
• CAL (Byron):
• Finished testing in the thermal chamber and found some issues that are being looked at
• Working on Setup GUI for CAL. Need to add some modification from the initial version which was based on having enables and disables for all components
• Working on plotting of layer data based on the dislin layered package for Python
• Warning that Online may have to support both new and old versions of RC for more than the short term depending how things turn out. Will discuss this further next week.
• Other business
• Jim asked how things were going testing the new GARC VHDL code version
• Curt found some problems that were reported back to Goddard. This resulted in a new version that he received this morning. Haven’t looked at it yet.
• Sharon urged him on saying that it looks pretty good from her perspective