Developer's meeting

Name: Developer's meeting
Start: 2017-03-22T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-03-22T18:00:00+01:00
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Wednesday 22 Mar 2017, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

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present: Giovanna, Enrico, Roland, Eric, Lynn, Kevin, Mark, Rene, Milo, Frank

Enrico: summary of achievements during the ProtoDUNE-focused developers half-week at Nikhef, March 13-15

Full-mode FELIX internal "to-host" emulation: thanks to Henk Boterenbrood, this can now be done (it uses 8 fixed frames as generated by Milo)
- NB frames crossing a Chunk (1 kB) boundary get the last four bytes dropped -- to be fixed (or is perhaps fixed already)
still an issue running the software back-end (felixcore)
- Mark: felixcore doesn't know about Full mode versus GBT mode; any issues should be in link configuration. Will follow up offline
could hack the FELIX internal to-host emulation to obtain an incrementing timestamp (would take some weeks of work)

Planning:

aim to be integrated for the next Milestone week (starting on May 8).
- emulation: will follow up with Rene offline
  - debate about data generation in Rene's emulator or inside the FELIX emulator part; preference (Giovanna + Frank) to have this in Rene's emulator (should be easiest if it has a s/w backend to talk to!)
- Giovanna: can Milo help modifying the frame generator so as to work in synchronisation with the rest of the DAQ? Milo: OK
  - will require acting on messages from run control and (re)setting timestamp upon start of run
- s/w: Roland working on trigger
  - Giovanna: trigger request will be coming from the event builder (i.e., no separate trigger messages) in the form of timestamp + event number messages
request by Giovanna: prepare a small presentation in ~ 2-3 weeks on the general progress

Other:

requests from Eric:
- access to s/w and f/w? Should all be on Sharepoint
  - Giovanna: can get you added (for s/w)
  - Mark: can add you (for f/w), just send me your (light-weight or not) accounts
- how to figure out version numbers? Mark: just use -v option for software
next meeting: tentatively in two weeks' time

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