View source for September 12, 2018 online meeting minutes

present: Sergey Boyarinov, Rafo, Eugene, Stepan, Chris Cuevas, Hai, Veronique, Ben, Ed, Graham, Raffaella over bluejeans

1. DAQ/Trigger for current run

* FADC/MM packing and decoding: all decoding in evio and offline finally fixed by Carl, Gagik and Irakli, Sergey still working on rol2 for FADC to record together packed and unpacked data for validation purposes, will be done today

* Trigger validation: Rafo collected cosmic events, Ben feed it into simulation, problem was found, firmware recompiled, new dictionary from Raffaella was included into compilation, waiting for torus and solenoid to be turned on to take new cosmic data; Raffaella's new dictionary seems good enough for now (Ben's plot); Raffaella described road generation procedure (pics); FTOFPanelB, FTOFPanel2 and PCALU will be in dictionary as separate columns

Andrea and Sergey are working on HLS-like simulation code which will be used in particular to check and develop different forms of road dictionary and segment/road finders in general

* FADC and DSC2 scalers over activemq messages: as we discussed on previous meeting, messages were implemented and can be used as an alternative for tcpclient-based mechanism; messages format was discussed with Nathan and finalized; when all forward carriage scalers were activated, ActiveMQ broker was stuck, Sergey installed recent version (5.15.5) and increased JVM memory from 1G to 4G, it is running for few days slowly increasing memory usage, watching it using 'jconsole'

* RF board is ready, will install it and program, and some time next week we'll test it with real RF signal