Project Overview & System Integration

Ted Liu

June 11th, 2004

Fermilab, High Rise, Hornet Nest

Pulsar Meeting

Lots done since March meeting • Fiber splitting is working for all paths still need active splitter for RECES (see Chris’talk)• RECES/Cluster inputs working with beam, PulsarMon design in place (see Vadim’s talk)• LVDS splitting is working for all paths no blue wire on Fanout boards! • Most firmware in places for all paths (Tx & Rx) fine tuning starts (see Sakari’s talk)• Pulsar production/testing success ! all hardware in place (see Burkard’s talk)• TSL1APulsar Merger Tx CPUL2TS Pulsar TS L2R/A loop closed! (see Cheng-Ju and Kristian’s talk)• Control CPU and Algorithm CPU communication software in place (see Daniel and Kristian’s talk)• New VME DAQ readout code in place (see Jane and Burkard’s talk)

• Pulsar crate almost FULL platform for integration in place (see Burkard’s talk)•…

Pulsar Crate in Trigger Room

B0L2PU00

Muon

XTRP

L2 Muons

Run IIa Level 2 Decision Crate

- Processor

1/3 RECES

Reces

Cluster

SVT

SVT

Connections:Fibers LVDS Slink Pulsar Test pattern

CL

ist Master

CListISOList

Merger SlinkRx

PulsarTx

B0L2PU00

Level2_Pulsar_00

081          L2 Pulsar Muon/XTRP Rx IIa083          L2 Pulsar SVT Road Warrior085          L2 Pulsar Muon/XTRP/L1 Tx or SVT XTRP-emu086          L2 Pulsar Muon/XTRP/L1 Rx IIb087          L2 Pulsar RECES Tx088          L2 Pulsar RECES Rx089          L2 Pulsar Cluster/PreFred Tx090          L2 Pulsar Cluster/PreFred Rx091          L2 Pulsar SVT Tx092          L2 Pulsar SVT Rx093          L2 Pulsar Merger Tx094          L2 Pulsar Merger Rx095          L2 Pulsar L2TS “Tx”096          L2 Pulsar L2TS097          L2 Pulsar L1 Scaler098          L2 Pulsar SVT TF099          L2 Pulsar test Tx100          L2 Pulsar test Rx101          L2 Pulsar Stereo Tx102          L2 Pulsar Stereo Rx

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Board type Description Firmware

SakariFrancoTomiSakariTomiSakariTomiVadim + SakariTomiSakariTomiSakari

Sakari

SakariSakari

What’s needed for phase I

Using Pulsar SVT Rx to measure SVT/SVX timing (lemo inputs: flexibility of Pulsar AUX card)

SVT in

From modified VTM:signal to indicateSVX data activity

Lemo cable

New Pulsar SVT Rx firmware/AUX card can measure theleading and trailing edge times for both SVT input (SVX data) and SVT output…Beam tests on going….. Important for SVT upgrade and overall L2 performance

SVT pipeline SVX/SRC

Can also measure timing @ intermediate stages

Are you ready for the summer integration?

These two are !

head shaved &cabled up

PC

SLINK

Pulsar pre-processors

L1 muon

L1 XTRPL1 trigger TS

ShowMax

(RECES)

SVT

Muon

Cluster

Electron

Merger

Merger

SVT

L2toTS

System Integration: two main efforts one between the two: SLINK fibers

L2 CAL(CLIST/Iso)

PreFred

Trigger Room with beam

Teststand Room Standalone

SLINK

Pulsar pre-processors

L1 muon

L1 XTRPL1 trigger

ShowMax

(RECES)

SVT

Muon

Cluster

Electron

Merger

Merger

SVT

L2toTS

System Integration: Part I in trigger room

L2 CAL(CLIST/Iso)

PreFred

Trigger Room with beam

Room Standalone

Pulsar Rx

Beam Tests

PulsarMonitoring

FirmwareFine tune

Key to success: coherent team effort !

Beam Tests

Monitoring Firmware

Coordinator: Burkard

“In God we trust, everything else we test with beam”

Coordinator: Vadim

“In God we trust,everything else we monitor” -- FBI

Coordinator: Ted

“In God we trust,everything else wesimulate”

Weekly plan will be made at Tuesday weekly meetings (Trailer 171 E, 3-4:30pm)Progress reports at Friday bi-weekly trigger hardware meetings

Key to success: coherent team effort !

Beam Tests

Monitoring Firmware

• all beam test requests coordinated with trigger SPLs• Train system experts now • pager carrier, rotate weekly• setup web page with instructions• … see Burkard’s talk

• Have all monitoring code ready for all subsystems next month• setup web page with details filled by experts• set goals for the coming months• … see Vadim’s talk

We are moving from the age of firmware into the age of monitoring software …

• firmware is not a place to show how smart one is, rather how many mistakes one can make• and how fast one can fix them !

PC

SLINK

Pulsar pre-processors

L1 muon

L1 XTRPL1 trigger

TS

L2 CAL(CLIST/Iso)

PreFred

ShowMax

(RECES)

SVT

Muon

Cluster

Electron

Merger

Merger

SVT

L2toTS

System Integration this summer

To make the commissioning and long termmaintenance MUCH easier, we need to splitall fibers for RECES active splitters

Design and production: Chris Started one month agoEngineer support from Upenn

PC TS

SVT

Cluster

Electron

Merger

MergerTx

SVT

L2toTS

System Integration: Part II

Trigger Room with beam

Teststand Room Standalone

SVT Tx

Adjust SVTlatency and data size

• Standalone first before move to trigger room• develop&test all software here• study initial performance with sparky triggers

Hardware coordinator: Cheng-JuPC/Software coordinator: DanielAlgorithm/PCI expert: Kristian

Mini-DAQ with L2 trigger in test stand room

RXPT TXPT TSPulsar (L2TS)

FRED (GL1)

preFRED

L2 Trigger D

ecision

+ TL2D Bank

(Phase I)

L2 Trigger Data

TS L1A

L2TS Pulsar

Pulsar MergerTx

(SLINK fiber)

PC

(SLINK fiber)

TS handshaking(sending L2A/R,

ROL, Buffer #)

Can also use L2TS Pulsar +TS to deliver Sparky trigger to 8 teststand crates Details see Kristian/Daniel/Cheng-Ju’s talk

PC

SLINK

Pulsar pre-processors

L1 muon

L1 XTRPL1 trigger TS

ShowMax

(RECES)

SVT

Muon

Cluster

Electron

Merger

Merger

SVT

L2toTS

System Integration: 2 1 aim at late July 04

L2 CAL(CLIST/Iso)

PreFred

Trigger Room with beam

Goals before Aug. shutdown

• put system together • take enough beam data in parasitic mode

• a few runs in decision making mode

• have enough system data to chew on during the shutdown (or long beam abort gap)

Challenges in system integration

• So far we have done the simple part, the part we know for sure that needs to be done and how to get it done

• we may encounter some unknowns during commissioning:

either we don’t know about them yet but they are out there waiting for us (like fiber splitting problems back in March), or problems created by us along the way…

• More often than not, those are the toughest ones and you will have most of the fun solving them…

• Be prepared !

A few comments • Everyone in the group is proud of the Pulsar board …

• What I am really proud of are the young people on this project …

• We have the best young people I have seen, EVERYONE of them

• Even though some could only work on Pulsar part time so far,

Productivity / hour spent : VERY high for everyone

Talent Great performance

Can we have a working system running in parasitic mode

before shutdown in Fall 2004 ?

Our young people have the answer !

Note that the youngest Pulsar soldier will arrive next Monday ! Her name is Angie Little, our summer student

2003 PCB Technology Leadership Award

I have saved this bottle for all of you, for a party later this year …

Pulsar Party tonight @ my house

30 -- 40 KHz?Tonight we willopen this bottle instead…Chinese “Vodka”

Happy B-day, Burkard!

Daniel has designed Pulsar L2 to only have 2 states: Thirsty or Drunk

SLINK

Pulsar pre-processors

L1 muon

L1 XTRPL1 trigger

TS

L2 CAL(CLIST/Iso)

PreFred

ShowMax

(RECES)

Muon

Cluster

Electron

Merger

Merger

L2toTS

Phase II: Four CPU System configuration

PC 0

PC 3

PC 1

PC 2

PCISLINKSLINKPCI

0123

0123

ToCPU

0/31/2

0/31/2

0/31/2

Merger

SVT