Meeting12October2005

SCT DAQ Job List Following ID Week

12th October 2005

For SCT and Combined SCT/TRT running in SR1 December 2005 onwards

Aim: to have a suitable, tested, DAQ ready as the baseline to use by 18th November

1. Complete tests of DAQ migrated to SLC3 and tdaq-01-02-00, with modules, as the baseline system, to include all good features of release 4.2 (and more)

• List of outstanding issues/BUGs in Chris’ TDAQ1/SLC3 talk page 17 – Chris
• Complete tests of run-time test modifications – Alan
• Test synchronous double triggers with modules – Alan, Dave
• Sort out TIM fixed frequency trigger veto with synchronous triggers - make these random - Alan
• Implement Synchronous Trigger Delay Test and Synchronous Pre-Trigger Delay Test – Alan, Peter, Bruce
• Implement improved RX threshold test to look for cross-talk – Alan, Peter
• Implement and test reading and histogramming multiple time bins with DSP code Sct-Rod-1-12 – Peter, Bruce, Alan
• Sort out RX-delay clck/2 – Alan, Peter

2. In parallel, study move to tdaq-01-04-00, with the aim of making this the version we use – Chris, John, Bruce

• Try at CERN to see if same VME (or DSP code 1-20) problems as seen in Cambridge - Dave
• Decide on version to be used by end October at the latest

3. SctApi

• Implement the changes needed to support physics operation in API? –Bruce
• Find out about toggle between physics and calibration to be consistent with ATLAS TDAQ - Chris
• Investigate dynamic removal of modules (or will it be done in DSPs?)- Bruce and Peter will discuss
• Histogramming in ROD in physics mode – Bruce
• Investigate returning DDC to top API, to be able to trace config changes - Chris

4. DSP Code – Peter, Trevor?, Bruce

• Release Sct-Rod-1-12 compatibility code by end October - Peter
• Prepare Sct_Rod-1-20 for around end December – present progress is good, so it looks probable it will be used

5. SctGUI – Dave

• Job list in Dave’s talk
• Displaying more DCS data and making existing faster – Dave needs help from Chris for IDL
• Modify BOC and module parameters manually from GUI

6. Move to private SR1 network – Dave

• Agreed this will be done (already in progress)

7. RodCrateDAQ? – Chris

• No, but watch developments

8. Multi Crate DAQ – Chris

• Needed to be working system in February

9. Implementation of LTP

• Hardware and software underway - Dave + Andrej?
• Convert RCD code for LTP into our system – Bruce

10. Monitoring in Athena – Luca? + Shaun

11. TIM and firmware – Alan and Matt

• Don’t count triggered events in fixed frequency veto
• Get TIM3C to CERN

12. Specify and buy Processors for analysis for the pit – John

13. Readout through SLink

• Sort out SCT ROSs and FILARs in SR1, including upgrades to latest software at ROS end – Dave, with help from Beniamino
• List steps that need to be achieved for reading up the Slink – John
• Would like to be able to try system at some level for test with TRT end October

14. IS speed issue – Alan is testing existing implementation

15. Database

• Move current configuration to OKS and read from OKS – Bruce, Chris
• Try copying config out of OKS into COOL? using xml2COOL - Shaun