Subject: What a long strange trip it's been: BLS->TAB->GAB
From: Michael J Mulhearn
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
To: D0 Run2b L1Cal Trigger

Hello!

After many firmware changes, driver fixes, and head scratches, the GAB is now fully timed in with the TAB and ADF in the online environment.

For proof, I bring the "head" of a L2/L3 buffer for a BC=10 L1
accepted event read from diagnostic memory on the GAB:

S30 level 2 output memory:
status:  0
bc:      10
...

As you can see, it is BC=10 as it should be.  Just one number, but it has made it's way from the ADFs into the TAB SWA chips, then to the TAB global chip, then to a GAB LVDS chip, then into the GAB S30 chip, and now it is being sent off to L3.

I also made many cross checks that the parameters behave as they are supposed to when adjusted.  As always, you can see the gory details at:

http://www-clued0.fnal.gov/~mulhearn/log/l1cal/

This means we are ready to make a real latency measurement into the Framework, and that we are ready to start sending our own L1Cal2B triggers!

cheers,
mike