July 25, 2018 online meeting minutes

present: Sergey Boyarinov, Graham, Ben, Hai, Ed

1. DAQ/Trigger upgrades progress for upcoming run

• FADC: Ben received firmware and implementing changes (some DiagGui features will be temporary dropped), Ed/Hai finishing testing, Ed will pass C code for unpacking to Gagic; will try to finish this week and commission next week

• DC trigger: done, waiting for DMA readout to be finished (Ben), VTPs still to be received (this week hopefully, missing 2 in DC and 1 for CND); VTP readout required change in bank format, ROL2 have to be adjusted (Ben changed clonbanks.xml, Sergey will do ROL2)

• procurements: all critical items are ordered, online farm still in progress, trying to buy 3 new servers and build it temporary in counting room

• CAEN TDC calibration: Sergey did calibration using Andrey Kim's ROOT-based program for tdcftof2, results looks good, Sergey will try to finish other sectors and CTOF this week

• Ben modified SVT readout adding new tag to raw data, new SVT bank to be implemented in ROL2 (Sergey)