[Ftk_hardware] DF design update tomorrow at FTK meeting

Paola Giannetti paola.giannetti at pi.infn.it
Wed Jul 13 10:56:52 CDT 2011


Please, note that at the next FTK meeting there will be an important 
report on Data Formatter.
Ciao
                    Paola
>> Tiehui Ted Liu wrote:
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>>> Hi, Mel and Paola,
>>>
>>> This is a reminder that Jamieson Olsen will give a talk at FTK meeting tomorrow. Perhaps it could be useful to inform others about this talk, to get some relevant people
>>> to attend the meeting and provide feedback (I always thought it is a good idea to have an agenda for each FTK meeting so people know in advance). 
>>> With more detailed studies, it looks to us now that VME is no longer a good option for Data Formatter, while ATCA is. ("To A or Not to A, that is no longer a question"). I know that this
>>> is a bit surprising to many, because naively one would expect that at least VME should be still a good option. We would like to present what we have learned and how we arrived at this and see if this makes sense to others and if we misunderstood things.  It looks like that we now have a much better idea on the core design requirements/specifications of the Data Formatter, with the (limited) information we could gather on the detector module/ROD mapping details.  But we have not looked at IBL case in details yet, and we have not looked at board level design details. So this is
>>> still very much work in progress. 
>>> Ted
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Mel Shochet wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Bastille Day, perfect!
>>>>
>>>> On 6/28/2011 2:30 PM, Tiehui Ted Liu wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> Hi, Mel,
>>>>>
>>>>> We are ready to have another update on the DF design progress. We are doing well, as far as I can see, making steady progress.
>>>>>
>>>>> The best time would be July 14th (to have everyone available as Bjoern is traveling next week).  We can have Bjoern and Ho Ling give
>>>>> a very brief update on what they did in terms of information gathering, and then Jamieson can talk about the details (30 mins).
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ted
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