CRU Weekly Meeting

Europe/Zurich
CERN

CERN

CRU Weekly meeting (4 May 2016)

Present: Sanjoy, Jubin, Mazsi,  Erno

Secretary:  Erno(1) PiPPo(2)

Actions:

  • Tivadar will ask
    • There will be CRU meeting with Detector 11 and 13 of May.
    • There will be CRU EDR on the 21 June.
    • Formal offer of the first 5 CRU cards received. Please confirm the purchase asap.
    • We should have a first firmware prototype for summer.

Report on Actions:

1. GBT

  • The new interface has been presented to TPC people.
  • After some work of TPC, the resource usage problem looks a bit more relaxed. TPC has a complete design in GIT, they can use it to evaluate resources.

2. 10G PON

  • Work in progress in opening the communication between ARRIA X and Kyntex.

3. PCIe 

  • Sanjoy work with Erno to include the code in the GIT.

4. GBT-SCA

  • No news.
  • PiPPo would like to have a emulator to be installed in FPGA. We can't ship the GBTx and GBT-SCA chip to India, so the importance of the emulator become higher.

5. I2C

  • Shuaib will present the results at the end of the meeting

6. Drivers

  • No news.

AOB

  • MID came with some requirements for their test system.
  • VLDB board, we should buy one which budget code do I use?

Absences

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