March 26, 2008 online meeting minutes

present: Sergey Boyarinov, Valeri Koubarovski, Ivan Bedlinski, Pawel Turonski

1. New level1 trigger system has been installed; it includes following components:

• clastrig2: CAEN v1495 logic unit with 2 daughter cards: 8 NIM input card and 32 ECL output card

• sc2: 6 OR modules

• outputs from TOF and ST pretrigger discriminators were rerouted to the v1495 board: ST directly, TOF through OR modules making OR of all channels in one sector (Sergey B.)

• Valeri and Pavel developed the photon level 1 trigger logic diagram

• Ben programmed v1495 module with desired logic and produced Windows-based GUI to control the logic

• Sergey B. developed vxWorks-side supporting library including tcp server to support Windows-vxWorks communication

• Sergey B., Nerses and Hovanes implemented EPICS support for the new electronics, including ioc in clastrig2

System is in commissioning right now, EPICS part still under development; full system testing will be conducted during 3 following days. Windows GUI produces file to be downloaded by scripts, upload command is exist as well.

Electron trigger to be reconfigured to bit 9, plugging rendom pulser to old L1 sync. MOR must goto sync as well.