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 Meeting time:  12:00pm Eastern
   
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Agenda

• Activity updates
  • Counting-mode DAQ prototype update
• Thoughts about getting ready for 90% review
  • Need to draft & submit the change request to take the VETROC out of design
  • HDMI cable length tests; decision on MPD position; radiation environment evaluation for MPDs
  • Availability of Hanjie's SOLID test stand firmware as reference/example for VTP trigger definition?
  • Follow-up with grounding working group?
  • Beam monitor requirements for counting mode and how to instrument?
  • Electrical safety evaluation of components; Electrical Safety Committee member for review?
• General discussion

Minutes

Recording on Zoom: [1]

Participants: C. Ghosh, R. Michaels, P. King, M. Gericke, D. McNulty, J. Fast

• Hanjie has started a new postdoc at BNL
  • Update after the meeting: Hanjie's VTP trigger design for the SOLID calorimeter is available at https://github.com/hanjie1/solid_ecal
• Bob reports on his test stand in TEDF
  • He's tested five SIS3820 scalers
  • He has FADC and VETROC in the crate; MOLLER won't use the VETROC but he is using this to also develop the polarimeter DAQs which will
  • He hasn't yet used the VTP trigger; he is following what is being done for the conversion to VTP triggering for the HCAL
• Discussion of HVMAPS
  • Michael plans to use a commercial FPGA that has a sufficient number of transceivers to connect to the HVMAPS
  • He has a test kit for the low-power transceivers from CERN
  • He will soon buy the FPGA
  • While he's at Mainz for the test beam, he'll have some time to talk with the engineer there who has been working with HVMAPS
• Paul asks if we could have ROCs that can be switched between integrating and counting mode; Bryan says that the TI modules can have two fiber inputs that can be selected during the CODA startup
• Jim brings up the issue of how Ohio will pay for the JLab designed modules
  • If all the effort is through the vendor PO, that would be easiest
  • If we need to pay JLab for some effort, it would require a CRADA
  • In the past there had been a way for universities to fund an account at the lab, but its not clear how that was actually handled
• Discussion about preparation for the 90% review
  • Jim is most concerned with the integration of the beamline instrumentation and the HVMAPS
    • Paul and Bob will set up a small group meeting with Yury, Mark P., and Kent to clarify our concerns/requirements, then we'll approach John M. again.