SPIDER Testbeam meeting 14/07/2009

Present  N. Watson. J Wilson (Birmingham), P. Dauncey (Imperial), 
 J.J. Velthuis (Bristol), G. Zhang, M. Stanitzki (RAL), A. Nomerotski, R. Gao (Oxford)

Minutes: Marcel

Rui reported on the TPAC DAQ. He followed Matt's instructions on compiling the 
code, but the place & route step fails. He wrote an email to Matt, but hasn't 
heard back. Paul pointed out that Matt is on vacation. He figured out, that 
the synthesis is the problem, as he can pllce & route Matt's firmware 
perfectly. He later posted, that it has to do with the way the clock buffers 
are associated. Matt and Paul will help Rui to overcome these setup problems. 
ACTION Paul: Get Matt to help 
Jaap investigated about the testbeam area and the layout with cables, 
xy-tables. Gary suggested to bring plenty of power strips, because of plug and 
socket issues. Paul reported that the USBDAQ flat ribbon cables by next week, 
he'll do 3 sets. Jaap pointed out, that the alignment of the TPAC stack with 
respect to the beamline can be simplified using a laser Water measure. Dave 
reported oh the status of the Fortis DAQ, which is not progressing as fast as 
he'd like. The command-line program now reads frames from the Fortis to disk.
He has seen 55Fe with Fortis but at the  moment, the program doesn't support 
triggers yet to send to the EUDET DAQ. Paul asked about LVDS signal to be sent to 
TPAC as well
ACTION Dave: provide details to Paul
Dave plans to use the TLU to distribute the clocks and hopes this will be done 
by next week. Dave will be leaving for vacation on the 3rd of August. Jaap 
pointed out that EUDET can help with Software issues.


Next meeting 21th of July, 1100