Pulsar Documentation and earlier talks

For recent talks on L2 upgrade, see RunIIb Level2 upgrade monthly meetings

Talks on ideas of using Pulsar for L2 upgrade

CDF Pulsar Project (Ted): the "blue wire" talk presented at IEEE, NSS (Portland, Oct.22, 2003).

Introduction to Pulsar for SVT upgrade (Ted), Using Pulsar for SVT upgrade (Alex). These two talks were presented at the SVT upgrade workshop (July 22, 2003).

Using Pulsar as an upgrade for L2 decision crtae: This is the talk prepared for the DOE review (Sept. 23, 2002) for CDF Run IIb upgrade.

Initial Thoughts on using Pulsar as an upgrade for L2 : This is the talk pesented at Level 2 review (Aug. 1st, 2002) on using Pulsar for L2 upgrade (see L2 review on Aug. 1st, 2002 ).

Earlier Pulsar related talks presented at Level 2 meetings

There are talks pesented at Level 2 meetings (see Minutes and Slides from previous Trigger Meetings ). Note that Pulsar was originally designed as a general purpose test tool for Level 2 trigger system.

Results for initial check-out of Pulsar prototypes (Nov.1st, 2002) (by Sakari)

Initial testing results for Pulsar prototype (Oct. 4th, 2002) (by Sakari)

S-LINK/PCI (for SSPCI and SPCIS) teststand software for initial Pulsar prototype testing: Derek's summer work is summarized in his talk, it was not shown at Level 2 meeting.

Pulsar Status update Report (TL), June 28, 2002

Pulsar firmware status (by Peter Wittich) June 7, 2002

L2 Pulsar Hotlink Mezzanine Card Status Report (by Natalia Kuznetsova), May 24, 2002

Pulsar Status Report (TL) May 10, 2002 Overall status of Pulsar project.

Pulsar functional requirements (TL), Feb.22, 2002

Level 2 Teststand (TL), Dec.07, 2001 presented at Level 2 Trigger Review.

Initial thoughts on a Universal Tester board design for L2 data inputs (TL), Oct.18, 2001 This was the very first talk on tester board design. It was intended as a prototype for the more general purpose version, but soon we decided to build the general purpose version instead of this simple version.

Pulsar Mini-review (July 24th, 2002) talks

This is the Mini-review before Pulsar prototype.

Goal of the Mini_Review

Comments from the Reviewers and Cross talk analysis/multi-board trace analysis results after mini-review

Overview: L2 Pulsar Teststand (by Peter)

First Hotlink Mezzanine card protoype (by Natalia)

Pulsar Board Design (by Mircea)

Pulsar Firmware (by Peter)

Documentations (work in progress)

This is still work in progress. We will need to focus on documentation effort in Aug. 2002. There should be a few CDF notes available around the time the prototype board is fully tested. Before that, most of the design details will be first documented on this web page.

Pulsar IEEE paper, accepted for publication in IEEE TNS on Sept. 2005. No. TNS-00650-2004.R2.

Pulsar Board Checkout Procedures (Aug. 2004) (new,big 73 MB .doc file with many photos. documented by Angie Litte, summer student 2004)

Pulsar L2 Trigger Transmitter Firmware (July, 2004) (documented by Tomi, doc format)

Pulsar L2 trigger firmware testing software (July, 2004) (documented by Frans)

Run IIb upgrade for CDF L2 Decision Crate: Pulsar Approach

Pulsar hardware implementation: Board and Device level description (work in progress, only content shown)