People involved in the first Pulsar project: Level 2 Global trigger upgrade

The Pulsar board was originally designed and advertised only as a general purpose diagnostic tool. As such, the group was very small at the beginning (year 2002) of the project, but many more people were involved after the prototype boards are made (year 2003 - ). Between 2003 to 2010, there have been about 50 young students and postdocs worked on serveral Pulsar related trigger upgrades at CDF. A summary of Pulsar applications, within and outside CDF/HEP, can be found at a recent IEEE talk at the IEEE Real Time 2009.

What's shown below were only the people involved around year 2003 to 2005 for CDF Global Level 2 trigger upgrade, the first Pulsar application at CDF. There were many people who were working on SVT upgrade around that time, and they are not listed here.

• Mircea Bogdan (UC, full time): Pulsar Board and all mezzanine/AUX cards design: schematics and layout.
• Harold Sanders (UC): our Chief Engineer with his infinite wisdom ...

• Erik van der Bij (CERN): CERN S-LINK engineer, S-LINK consultant.

• Ted Liu (Fermilab, full time. Sept. 2001 - ): Pulsar board and system level design. Pulsar schematics, overall firmware design and VHDL coding, Pulsar board level simulation, board layout issues. Pulsar prototype testing. Rev B hotlink mezzanine cards, Taxi mezzanine cards and AUX card design/schematics.
• Burkard Reisert (Fermilab, full time, Jan. 2003 -): working on Pulsar hardware/firmware/software ...Pulsar muon path expert... in charge of Pulsar overall hardware.
• Cheng-Ju Lin (Fermilab, Jan. 2003 -): working on data format for each Level 2 trigger data path, Pulsar software simulation, online monitoring ...Pulsar muon path expert.... he later became CDF trigger SPL (Jan. 2004-2005)...
• Sakari Pitkanen (visiting student from Finland, full time, from April 2002 to Nov. 2003. Since Jan. 2004, he became an engineer at Fermilab): started in late April (2002) on Pulsar board work: board, multi-board level simulation and VHDL firmware work. initial VME software for prototype testing. Pulsar prototype testing... later on became the project firmware engineer... went back to Finland on Sept. 2005.
• Peter Wittich (Upenn, part time. Jan. 2002 -): Initial Pulsar firmware VHDL coding for Hotlink Tx mode, board design consultant, first hotlink mezzanine card prototype testing. will coordinate the SLINK software effort at Upenn. Peter was the overall software coordinator for the CDF trigger system, later (July 2002-2203) he became the co-leader (SPL) of CDF trigger system. He is also our photographer.
• Paul Keener (Upenn, Jan. 2003 -): working on S-LINK to PCI interface: S32PCI64, PC platform, operating system related issues. Pual is also an DAQ expert on ATLAS experiment.
• Kristian Hahn (Upenn GR student, Jan. 2003 - ): working on Pulsar PCI/CPU performance etc.
• Hans Fritz Stabenau (Upenn GR student, May 2003 -): joined in April 2003. working with Paul on SLINK/PCI performance study.
• Joe Kroll (Upenn, Jan. 2003- ): Upenn Pulsar group leader
• Chris Neu (Upenn, Sept 2003- ): Upenn new posdoc...working on Pulsar RECES path.
• Daniel Whiteson (Upenn, Jan. 2004- ): Upenn new posdoc.... initially working on Pulsar CPU related work. later on will work on Pulsar hardware as well.
• Shawn Kwang (UC GR student, Jan. 2003 -): working on Pulsar firmware/software for muon path.
• Vadim Rusu (UC posdoc, Oct. 2003 - ): working on Pulsar Cluster path. hardware/firmware/software. later on become CDF trigger SPL (2005-).
• Wojciech Fedorko (UC GR student, Oct. 2003 - ): working on Pulsar Cluster path, and Level 2 Fanout board design.
• Young-Kee Kim (UC, Oct. 2003 - ): overall consultant
• Henry Frisch (UC): overall consultant
• Mel Shochet (UC): overall consultant

• Bill Ashmanskas (UC): technical consultant, along with his powerful Python scripts. Bill is also an expert on CDF Silicon Veterx Tracker (SVT) system.
• Peter Wilson (Fermilab): consultant.
• Jonathan Lewis (Fermilab): consultant.