Online telecon notes for November 20,
2002
Attending:
- Connie Houchens (GSFC/ACD)
- Sharon Orsborne (GSFC/ACD)
- Jim La (GSFC/ACD)
- Byron Leas (NRL/CAL)
- Luca Latronico (INFN
Pisa/TKR)
- Curt Brune (SLAC/FSW)
- Larry Wai (SLAC/I&T-IFCT)
- Selim Tuvi
(SLAC/I&T-Online)
- Ric Claus
(SLAC/I&T-Online), minutes author
Topics:
- Core (Selim, Ric)
- Selim:
- Added patch level to
version info
§
Fixed GARC register number mapping
- Changed
GARC register names
- Recap
of additional functions exposed
- Added
third-party tool links to the web site
- Schema
and configuration modifications to support constraints, EGUs and rules
- Ric:
- Run
control GUI implemented (Alicia)
- Based
on a state machine
- Will
use event data delivery callback
- Asynchronous
event data taking
- The
current system won't break if the user chooses to run it synchronously
- Part
tracking system
- PythonROOT
package request from Byron: Want to use ROOT to leverage already written
SAS code (from both Balloon and BFEM test), e.g. calibration
algorithms. Heard of similar
request from TKR.
q
PythonROOT allows access to Python scripts from
ROOT. Byron wants to work in the other
direction and so is investigating making an interface using the Boost package.
q
Ric anticipated that the flow of data to SAS code would
be through data files
q
Larry expressed concern with the extra baggage this
approach would put on the Online system.
Perhaps recoding the key algorithms in Python/Hippo wouldn’t be a big
undertaking.
- IFCT
(Larry)
- Baseline
functional tests
- Splitting
of Online vs. Offline functional tests
- Lead
for CAL Byron & Jim Ampe to supply functional tests
q
Eric Grove for calibration level tests
- Lead
for TKR Luca Latronico
q
Tests consists of charge injection, diagnostics,
pedestals, noise, dead channel
- Larry
will be putting together a document describing the baseline functional
tests, what plots will be provided, what constitutes successful
completion, and what constitutes nonconformance
q
Byron suggested that this document be mapped onto the
Level 3 and 4 requirements docs.
- Jim
asked about the implications for ACD
q
None for the short term (EM test). Will revisit as we approach CU.
- ELX (Curt)
- Test
Stand 2a production
- Mechanical
enclosure arrived.
- 28V
supplies are trickling in (works with 220V)
- Cabling
for PDU & GASU arriving
- PSA,
VME & transition board expected in a week
- Still
expect completion and distribution in early December
- Testing
of RCs for CAL & TKR
- Currently
maintaining three different libgtem.o libraries to support various ASIC
versions
- Led
to patch number in version strings
- Pseudo
AEM
- Pseudo
AEM require firmware changes
- Expect
completion and distribution next week
- Reminder
to Jim La/Glen Unger to provide Online with a GAFE simulator board
- ACD (Connie,
Sharon, Jim):
- Connie
is working on test scripts
- Sharon
is worked on corresponding Qt.
- Ric:
11 licenses of the Qt commercial version ordered (a few of them are
spares) and PyQt
- Connie
indicated that GARC and GAFE hardware problems were resolved
- CAL (Byron)
- RC
v5 testing
- TEM
<-> AFEE testing
- Python
to ROOT interface via Boost
- Larry:
pyFITS as an alternative?
- Possibly,
especially given the Boost approach is more involved than desired. Will talk with NRL-local SAS folk.
- TKR (Luca)
- Visited
Santa Cruz to learn about legacy testing system
- Writing
Online/Python version of the threshold scan
- Working
on providing a library of functions for TKR
- Planning
to work on low level functions
- Threshold
scan discovers noisy and dead channels