DAQ Teleconference Sep 18, 2003, 3PM Central

Minutes

Trigger interrupts

• Now coded with semaphores
• Testing shows significant speed improvement, 12usec latch reset down from 40
• Also, plan to disable INT 4 on CES8210 and send ACK2 input into INT4 to latch ACK4 as a hardware busy, to be reset in software

RMH

• 2-modules were missing, a controller and a back-plane transition module. These have been supplied
• Nick has code (rmh.c and includes) from Italian group
• Has begun converting to C++ class structure for use in MIPP DAQ
• Italian group in town to help until the Sep 25

Camac

• LRS2249.cxx ADC module still needs testing
• Perrick working on hardware map for Drift Chambers

TPC

• Able to talk to sticks over bitbus
• Presently de-coding stick data formats (in dsp)
• Interrupt module at LLNL has not lines on VME interrupt
• Perhaps different flavors of these LBL modules existed --- Peter to check modules on the floor

Enstore

• We can write files to enstore
• David to integrate some file transfer/checking perl scripts with enstore to be used in MIPP

DAQ-FEST

• Plan to test all detectors with TPC at FNAL during week of Nov 3'rd.