RUN 2B L1CAL MEETING MINUTES
                 18 October, 2005

Present 
o Fermilab      J.Benitez, G.Ginther, S.Lammers, M.Mulhearn, N.Varelas
o FSU           T.Adams
o Indiana       H.Evans
o MSU           C.Brock, D.Edmunds, P.Laurens
o Nevis         J.Parsons
o Northeastern  D.Wood

(apologies to those I couldn't see)


Installation Schedule Discussion
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o Director's Installation Review on Tuesday (10/25)
  - purely technical & schedule
  - Alan will be giving the talk for L1Cal
o Changes to Installation b/c of delayed shutdown
  - main changes will be in personnel
    . hopefully additional Fermilab engineer
  - no change to the general schedule of the installation foreseen


Report on Test Area Activities
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o Firmware-Simulation Cross-checking (Lammers/Fantasia)
  - Cory has validated Jet, EM and MEt algorithms w/ ~7K events
    . one outstanding issue with EM algo
  - eta swapping is now done correctly
  - these tools will be usable as part of the final online suite

o GAB Integration (Mulhearn)
  - checking timing w/in GAB
  - some problems w/ TAB-to-GAB link
    . found a bug in TAB Chip-10 firmware (double-counts BC 1)
      (not sure when this was introduced)
  - after bug-fix things seem to work much better
  - note: does not affect previous timing measurements

o Transition System Status (Benitez)
  - see slides posted on agenda
  - ATCs: 64 in hand (seem good) - still under test
    . rest by end Oct
    . 15 spares
  - PPCs: 41 in hand (seem good) - still under test
    . rest by end Oct
    . 20 spares
  - Testing System ready to go

o Loose Ends
  - "8s problem" fixed: turned out to be a broken pin on the TAB
     backplane  
  - work started on TCC interface for TAB/GAB
    . Mike will iterate w/ Philippe on this
  - using new VME/SCL card
  - have permission to do an L1Cal special run once per week
    . are training "non-experts" to be able to do these runs
  - need for 8 TABs at Fermilab: probably the end of the month
    . coordinate this with work at Nevis

o Latency
  - measurements by Cory indicate that latency of Cal-Track data will
    be very close to the "3 BC beyond current L1Accept" limit when all
    timing "slack" has been taken out
    . b/c this is projected to be so close to the limit, the idea is
      to make a latency measurement with all the slack taken out as
      quickly as possible
    . this reduces the ability to shift the sampling point of the ADF
      signals 
  - plan to run with new (reduced) timing of ADF: week of Oct 24
    . SCLD firmware change
    . need to re-check timing of signals (on scope) with beam in
      Tevatron 
  - will also have to adjust TAB timing
    . delay parameters downloaded to TAB - should be quick
  - should we leave the timing "without slack" after the test ?
    . limits our ability to do tests of BLS signal timing
    . but staying with the new (no slack) timing allows the system to
      be exercised in its final configuration

o Monitoring
  - meeting about L1Cal2b monitoring last week
    . hammering out details of what will be monitored
  - Basic Monitoring is essentially defined
    . TT information from ADF
    . TAB/GAB status registers
  - still thinking about ways to identify hot towers as part of
    monitoring