CRU Weekly Meeting

Wednesday 10 Jan 2018, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

CRU Weekly meeting (10 Jan 2018)

Present: Olivier, Joel, Tivadar, PiPPo, Tuan, mazsi, Erno

Secretary: Erno(25), PiPPo(9), Shuaib(1), mazsi(37)

Report on Actions:

• PiPPo - Our old laboratory is still not ready but ITS can let us to stay in the current room till the end of January. The availability of our new lab is unknown.

Actions:

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1. 10G PON

• mazsi - The CTP team released a new note about the trigger bits coming over the PON link.

2. GBT

• Erno - Ongoing fPLL development (fPLL friendly link order, calibration script support, ...)
• Erno - Ongoing x48 GBT link development (x48 link requires two gbt_wrapper and the support script should be extended with wrapper parameter)

3. DCS

• PiPPo - Fixing the clock frequency issue with SCA component.

4. PCIe

• PiPPo - Question about the CRU id and PCIe class code. Ongoing effort to meet the timing closure.

5. Integration

• mazsi - Final release is planned on next Monday.

6. Production

N/A

7. Simulation

Olivier - Started to simulate the GBT-FPGA block. Currently working on the VHDL compilation and driving the Avalon bus.

AOB

N/A

Travels/Vacations

Jan 11 - Mazsi returns to CERN
Jan 11 - 20 - Tivadar, Erno - visit to CERN
Jan 17 - Olivier, Joel - visit to CERN