Due to FNAL Indico service downtime the working agenda is kept in BNL's Indico. Please go there now: https://indico.bnl.gov/event/4854/timetable/
This is a focussed workshop aimed at advancing the FELIX design for DUNE: to agree on the design, invite and assign explicit contributions to R&D, and define tests to be performed at collaboration institutes/sites and at protoDUNE in the coming months.
We urge engineers, physicists, and scientists interested in this strand of R&D to attend in person.
The agenda will be posted in the coming days. We expect the workshop to kick off with a summary of data selection and other simulation studies (about half a day), followed by sessions focused on the design, and finally a ~half day session on planned R&D milestones and tests. The data selection summary session will be available for remote participation.
Further information on design principles: DUNE Single-phase electronics will produce 1.5 TB/s data from 150 APAs. The baseline goal of the DAQ that accepts this data is to aggregate one or two APAs, 10-20GB/s of data throughput into one front-end computer via FELIX PCIe boards. On at least 3/8ths of the channels, the data must be continuously processed in order to locate periods of time where activity distinct from intrinsic electronics noise has occurred. These primitive indicators must be combined to form a trigger which commands the DAQ to read out select data. The DAQ must then buffer the full stream of data long enough to wait for the trigger command. The buffer must be longer still to accommodate pre-trigger requirements driven by supernova neutrino burst physics and which are at least ten seconds. Workshop presentations will describe elements of a design centered on the use of FELIX boards for receiving the data from the detector electronics. A primary goal of the workshop is to discuss and arrive at a coherent design to pursue toward producing the DUNE Technical Design Report.