Developer's meeting

Wednesday 28 Jun 2017, 18:00 → 19:10 Europe/Zurich

Present: Eric, Enrico, Roland, Milo, René, Frank

MW4 progress (Enrico):

• f/w: use the internal generation of Full mode frames, overwriting timestamp in s/w (works)
• s/w: created system that issues periodic triggers, received by BoardReader (actually by the FragmentGenerator running inside it)
• do not have a fully working setup yet: need to expose the trigger queue (hack the CommandableFragmentGenerator code)
• using demo: EventBuilder sending trigger request and building event (so needs artdaq fragment)

emulator (René):

• CRC and timestamp implemented; can increment the timestamp with any (configured) step
• still have missing bits (hope to fix this tomorrow), but could alternatively make the present bitfile available
• Enrico: would prefer the fixed version

AOB:

• Eric: is it still useful to make the formal request to MicroBooNE to use its data?
  • Frank: this would depend mainly on how long these would be useful for compression studies (i.e., when we will be able to supplant these with ProtoDUNE simulated data)
  • Milo: no timescale given for these simulated data
  • Eric: will inform Milo & Frank of the next suitable meeting then, where we can make our formal case
• Eric: any solution to the issue of the HTG710 being deprecated? This is what PNNL has
  • Frank: nothing straightforward. Will certainly let you know if something comes to mind

Next meeting: not sure yet how well two weeks from now will work (Frank will be returning from EPS)

• meanwhile, should be prepared to report on our MW4 activities in one of the upcoming DAQ meetings. Enrico willing to prepare a presentation

18:00 → 18:30 MW4 discussion