Attendees

Olivier, Tuan, Joël, Tivadar, PiPPo, Erno.

PRR

• The follow-up went well. Green light for production
• Alex will report about the PRR
• Wait for technical board
• The firmware was addressed in the PRR (mainly for the TPC cluster finder).
  • In September we have to produce a meeting in O2 plenary meeting to check for plan B is required or not
  • Final decision has to be done end of 2018.

Dwrapper

• A bug was found in the PCIe and it was fixed (due to slow data rate)
• Still something not understood, sometime data is not flowing (DMA not pushing data, reason yet unknown)
  • Many things were tried (fw reload, powercycling, ...). What did trigger the situation is not known
  • It happened right after doing the GBT slow control.
• Datataking with two links, something was observed this morning, investigation under progress
• Check GBT mode when using VLDB.
• Firmware

CRU-tests

• Tuan : pushed the changes, still has to test the change, probably on Thursday
• Priority is now on the waveform player

Waveform player

• It is still integrated in the dummy_user_logic
• Tuan has some question about the dwrapper and the connection
• Some test to be done.

Getting ready for release

• validate DWRAPPER + documentation (see open topics above)
• update WF_player + documentation
• update cru-test repo to support the above + documentation
• Integrate howTo (Oliver/PiPPo)
• Validate all of these, please read the documentation, it will ease support later on!
• merge in master
• Tag fw and test tools

Announce the release

To do in the coming weeks

Go through the issue list, close and/or process those:
https://gitlab.cern.ch/alice-cru/pcoresng-cru/issues

• Save resource on GBT (gbt/gbtx, sharing) -> JB
• GBT/SC Take out GBT sc from GBT and share it -> PiPPo/JB
• GBT Update avalon slaves to the new one -> JB
• Simply gbt clock interface to a single one -> all
• Remove JTAGMMM? -> Olivier
• Core must be cleaned (generic and all ...) -> Olivier
• Find a way to simulate the core (main issue is the Pcie model) :
  • core_no_pcie?
  • find a way to replace lower level of altera model to speed up?
• clean all CDC things -> all, remove statcnt (use gen_counter)
• Topic about BAR address too large (issue #33)? all

ABSENCES

• Tuan in vacation from july 16th to july 30th
• Olivier : mid july to mid august, precise date to be given