RUN 2B L1CAL MEETING MINUTES
                   9 August, 2005

Present 
o Fermilab      L.Bagby, M.Cwiok, C.Fantasia, G.Ginther, M.Johnson,
		S.Lammers, M.Mulhearn, Md.Naimuddin, V.O'Dell,
		G.Pawloski, P.Renkel, A.Roe, A.Stone, M.Verzocchi,
		R.Unalan 
o MSU           C.Brock, D.Edmunds
o Nevis         H.Evans
o Northeastern  E.Barberis, D.Wood
o York          W.Taylor

(apologies to those I couldn't see)


Status from Nevis
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o G-Link Receiver Test Card now working
  - made first (prelim) BER measurements using it
    http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~evans/l1cal/columbia/columbia.html
    --> Testing
  - ran for ~4 hours ==> BER < 10^-12
  - more extensive tests planned for next week

o New VME/SCL card now tested at a basic level
  - if it continues to function as expected will make two more for
    Fermilab 


Status from MSU
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o finishing off documentation for safety review



Test Area: (Bagby/Mulhearn/Lammers)
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o TAB Timing & Data
  - 3/4 TAB timing parameters now set to final values
  - 4th parameter should be finished soon
  - apparent corruption in TAB L2/L3 data was due to the fact that ICR
    energies are added to the other TTs

o Cal-Track
  - have sent signals to the system with correct timing
  - still working on measuring latency to Cal-Track
  - will also investigate that data is as expected

o L2/L3 Splitter study
  - new firmware for VRB will allow BER measurements
  - can also read launch power out of VTM

o ORC
  - preliminary review yesterday
    . have addressed the few things he suggested
  - should be finished by Friday

o Working on comparison with IIa TTs and precision readout
  - have recorded data in a hand-pulser run
  - "by-hand" examination ==> things look basically ok, but still some
     mysteries 
  - will work on unpacker when Todd gets back on Thursday
  - next step: use calorimeter pulser instead of hand pulser

  


L1Cal Technical Readiness Review
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o Scheduled for August 26-27
  - see Draft Charge and Task List posted off of agenda
  - see L1CTT review (29 July) for an example
    http://www-d0.fnal.gov/~lucifer/RunIIb/Welcome.html

o 3 Main Areas
  1) System Integration
  2) Infrastructure and Installation
  3) Online/Offline Software
  +  Simulation and Trigger List
  +  Documentation

o Possible Review Structure
  - short introductory talk
  - one presentation on each of the 4 areas above

o Please have documentation ready by August 19
  - Hal will set up a web page that brings all of this together



The Pulser Tool (P.Renkel)
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o see slides linked off agenda