RUN 2B L1CAL MEETING MINUTES
                 13 December, 2005

Present 
o Fermilab      L.Bagby, J.Benitez,
                C.Fantasia, G.Ginther, S.Lammers, M.Mulhearn,
		A.Roe, A.Stone, R.Unalan, T.Zmuda  
o Indiana       H.Evans
o MSU           C.Brock, D.Edmunds
o Northeastern  D.Wood

(apologies to those I couldn't see)


Test Area Status 
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o All crates (including new all ADF crates, the control crate and the
  TAB/GAB crate) are now installed in the 
  Test Area

o ORC
  - ORC documentation is now updated on Lyn's web page
  - Dan and Walt came by and did an inspection - found two small things
    . bus bar needed for control crate
    . testing of RMI needs to be documented
    . should have ORC tomorrow

o All fibers to L2/L3 are now at Fermilab
  - will start running them next week

o Problem with original Wiener supply
  - Wiener forgot to tell us to connect reference line on their supply

o This afternoon, plugged in a TAB and GAB into new crate and checked
  currents 
  - things look fine
  - wiring can accomodate 30A - far more than we need
    . currently fused at 15A
  - rest of the TABs being installed one-by-one right now

o Cabling the CAN bus and inserting this into Adam's monitoring

o ADF-to-TAB Cabling
  - Dan will pull apart the ADF crate that's currently being used for
    transition system tests
    . he's coming out to Fermilab tonight/tomorrow
  - Jorge/Dan will test the remaining (10) LVDS cables that were sent
    from Nevis 2 weeks ago
  - Tech help on cabling
    . George has talked with John Anderson about this
    . some help is (probably) available for cabling the Test Area
    . but not for the final installation
  - Cabling could start tomorrow afternoon

o Post-cabling tests
  - ADF-to-TAB pseudo random data tests
  - all other link tests that are normally performed 
  - writing data to tape
  - all will proceed essentially in parallel
  - documentation

o Ted Zmuda has joined the group (welcome to Ted!)



EM Algorithm:
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o The plan for the EM algorithm implementation in firmware
  - move to upper/right anchoring of clusters
  - disable masks by default but allow them to be turned on by
    downloadable parameter
  - Cory's code will be used to test the new firmware when it's ready


Farewells
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o This is the last meeting for Cory and Adam. We owe them both a big
  thank you for all the good work they've done while they were
  here. Everyone is encouraged to give them a pat on the back (or buy
  them a beer).


Meetings over the Holidays
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o Next meeting (Dec. 19) will be held (without Hal)
  - but meetings on Dec. 27 and Jan. 2 are *canceled*