Upstream DAQ Tech meeting

Thursday 9 Sep 2021, 07:00 → 08:21 US/Central

 

https://cern.zoom.us/j/68022868314

 

07:00 → 07:15 Current sprint

dunedaq-2.8.0 / FW-2.0.0

Main objectives
- TPG chain
- Ethernet readout (only software for now)

Speakers: Ivana Hristova (STFC RAL), Jim Brooke, Dr Konstantinos Manolopoulos (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Konstantinos Manolopoulos (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Roland Sipos (CERN), Stoyan Trilov

07:15 → 07:30 Readout (FW & SW)

Technical developments & future plans on Readout Subsystem.

Speakers: Antony Earle (University of Sussex), Filiberto Bonini (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Mr Florian Grotschla (CERN), Ivana Hristova (STFC RAL), Konstantinos Manolopoulos (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Konstantinos Manolopoulos (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Roland Sipos (CERN), Shyam Bhuller (University of Bristol)

felix-pie

• Got python control software for the TPG firmware, (dtp-controls), communicating with test block in Felix card
• Encountered ipbus bug causing sporadic timeouts and incorrect packet header transmission
• Reduced ram buffer size for ipbus seems to have stopped timeout issue
• Currently debugging packet header issue using ILA debug core in the design
• Tried felix design with only a single pcie endpoint but the driver does not seem to pick up the card. Need to get lspci output from boot to see why this is the case
• Continuing development of dummy pod block to demonstrate wibulator and sink working successfully inside the felix 

07:30 → 07:45 Trigger Primitives (FW & SW)

Technical developments & future plans on TP specific firmware and software.

Speakers: Antony Earle (University of Sussex), Ivana Hristova (STFC RAL), Konstantinos Manolopoulos (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Kunal Kothekar

TP readout software (I. Hristova)

- discussion with Alessandro, Roland, Kunal on the software TPG chain todo list

- felix-based readout tests (using fdaq) at Bristol and NP04 test stands are not necessary at the moment, these tests will become relevant when we have the HF firmware integration with FELIX ready (felix-pie)

- agreed on a staged approach for the TPG software integration

- the next step is to recover the original TPG chain implementation from March after Florian's restructuring of the readout package, now using the emulator model for the different FE types

- ongoing, creating TP specific data link handler and filling the pre- and post-processing pipelines

07:45 → 08:00 Timing

Technical developments & future plans

Speakers: David Cussans (University of Bristol), Stoyan Trilov

• Port of timing firmware to Nexus Video carrier board on-going
  • Affects re-focussing effort onto MIB development
• Last minute issues with v6.0.0 firmware found -> resolved
  • If testing successful -> tag
• Started work on software support for new firmware features

08:00 → 08:15 Integration

Integration status at:
- CERN
- Bristol
- UPenn
- ICEBERG

Speakers: Kunal Kothekar, Roland Sipos (CERN), Shyam Bhuller (University of Bristol)

08:15 → 08:20 AOB