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Re: GlueX electronics workshop
Elton (and JLab GlueXers),
Thanks for the prompt and valuable feedback on the tentative agenda for
the electronics workshop. Version 2 is below.
On Nov 3, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Elton Smith wrote:
>
> HI Paul,
>
> We discussed the tentative agenda at our local meeting this morning and
> have the following comments/suggestions:
>
> We talked about vendors. We do not think that this is a good time to
> bring
> vendors into the discussion. We need to clarify requirements for
> ourselves. At the moment, as far as I know, there are no commercial
> solutions for our experiment --except perhaps for HV, auxiliary logic,
> even discriminators-- and the viability of having a custom solution is
> probably not cost effective. I am afraid that the second day will
> defocus
> our discussions away from the definition of requirements, which is
> what we
> need to concentrate on.
>
> What might be very useful is for someone to report on options that are
> available commercially. This can be coupled with discussions of
> maintenance, which is also not on the agenda.
OK
> 1. Your introductory talk is very important and critical to laying out
> the
> activities of the workshop. It should outline requirements for the
> entire
> electronics system, identify holes in our present plans, etc.
I was planning to expand on the talk I gave at the recent detector
review.
> 2. We should have a talk on the F1 TDC boards, including recent
> experience
> with production, multiple boards in a crate, etc. This should be
> separate
> from the JLab FADC R&D talk.
>
> 3. Report on JLab FADC R&D. There is enough information for 2 & 3.
OK
> 4. We need a talk on DAQ requirements for electronics (not a
> discussion of
> CODA updates), e.g. blocking of events, trigger interface, trigger
> supervisor, etc.
Dave Doughty?
> 5. Need a discussion on requirements for preamps, clearing times for
> electronics, sensitivity, gas gain and feedback. Perhaps Vladimir Popov
> (detector group) would like to discuss some of these issues.
Could someone ask Vladimir?
> 6. We need a discussion on backplanes, crates and form factors for the
> experiment. This might be a oppportunity to start making decisions on
> this
> topic.
I'll volunteer to lead this unless someone else wants to do this.
> 7. Discussion of commercial options (see discussion above).
Volunteers?
Rev 2:
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Tentative topics/agenda:
Wednesday, December 7:
9 am Introduction & Overview Paul Smith
10 am JLab F1 TDC status Ed Jastrzembski?
11 am Accelerator RF John Musson
11:30 am Clock distribution Ed Jastrzembski
1:30 pm Ground/Power/Infrastructure Chris Cuevas
2:30 pm Tracking requirements Vladimir Popov
3:30 pm Discriminators/Preamps R&D U Alberta
4:30 pm IU Cockcroft-Walton R&D Paul Smith
Thursday, December 8:
9 am IU fADC R&D Paul Smith
10 am JLAB fADC R&D Fernando Barbosa
11 am Commercial Options ??
11:30 am Maintenance Chris Cuevas?
1:30 pm Trigger/DAQ requirements Dave Doughty
2:30 pm Buses & Boards Paul Smith
3:30 pm Summary / Lehman review / AOB Elton Smith?
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I would like to end by 4:30 pm so I can make a 6 pm flight.
I've tried to keep plenty of time for discussions in the schedule.
Do we have a large enough room scheduled?
Feel free to suggest changes; let's aim for sending this out to the
full collaboration by the end of the week.
Paul