1. Pulsar Hardware Status Burkard Reisert (FNAL) March, 14 th 2003

2. Two New Pulsar Boards (from Prototype Batch) Visual Inspection: missing, wrong, misplaced components (mostly termination resistors) - fixed - BOM and assembly plan corrected Both boards configured as Hotlink RX Board for tests of Hotlink Fiber RX mezz. cards Successful Testing

3. Pulsar Test Stand TSTL2TRG1TRACERTest Clock Pulsar Receiver (Rx) Pulsar Transmitter (Tx) PC 4 Tx Hotlink MezzCards 4+12 Rx Hotlink MezzCards Gigabit Ethernet or Slink to PCI AUX Pulsar Receiver (Rx) Automated VME RAM Tests Steering file defining : #SLOT FPGA RAM loop nwords pat. 13 CONTROL INT WR 10000 256 1 0 1 13 DATAIO1 SRAM WR 1000 131072 2 0 1 8 CONTROL INT WR 10000 256 3 0 fff : : : : : : : : : Flexible testing: not a single error in ~ 10 millions per Test Easily extendable to more Pulsar boards, VME RAMs

4. Production of HOTLINK Fiber Receiver (Rx) Cards Fruit full UC & Fermilab Cooperation 03/03 components collected at UC 03/05 first item from PPD-EED 03/06 test of first item completed go for production 03/07-03/11 production completed within 3 working days Thanks to Bob Demaat, Bob Jones and Paula, who did a great job 03/12-03/13 tests of Hotlink Mezz. Rx cards Careful preparation pays off only one card failed first test Plug & Play (well almost, metric screws needed) The Hotlink Receiver Arsenal: 12 New Rx Mezz. Cards +4 Prototypes + spare parts for 2 more complete cards

5. Production of HOTLINK Fiber Transmitter (Tx) Cards Continue the fruit full UC & Fermilab Cooperation 03/04 components collected at UC 03/14 first item being produced by PPD-EED test first item as soon as it is available go for production after careful testing Production and Testing completed feasible by Friday next week

6. New Prototypes 1 AUX CARD2 TAXI Receiver 2 TAXI Transmitter All at FNAL adjustment of firmware for testing

7. Development of Core firmware : DataIO FPGA (Rx case) DAQ buffers SRAM interface VME responses RAM/ Spy buffers RAM/ Spy buffers Mezzanine Card interface CDF Ctrl interface up stream Play/record SLINK formatter Filter algorithm 1 st Version existbeing developed Focus of Development of the week direct monitoring input data and control lines will ease testing of Hotlink and Taxi mezz. cards Sakari is back since Monday, this makes a difference down stream

8. E1: near term goals from last meeting (1) Feb: have the automated testing procedure fully working for 16 hotlink channels (muon path): Tx->Rx->PC; (2) March: finish testing 2 more Pulsar boards with hotlink/Taxi mezzanine cards and AUX cards; (3) April: initial proof of principle test with S32PCI64 with test setup (4) May: core firmware (Tx/Rx) fully developed and tested with hotlink/taxi mezzanine cards; (5) June: production/testing for Pulsar/hotlink/taxi/AUX cards (6) July: have Tx->Rx-PC fully developed for Reces(taxi), cluster/Isolation (hotlink/taxi); (7) Aug: document everything above: cdf note DONE Rx DONE

9. Goals for the coming months March: finish Hotlink Tx production/testing finish testing Taxi and AUX card prototypes improving Pulsar core firmware April: continue improving firmware preparing Taxi/AUX card production if possible, initial test with Pulsar Tx  Rx  S32PCI64  CPU