[Halld-online] fADC emulation

[David Lawrence]

Hi All,

  The fADC emulation meeting will be held on Wednesday morning at 9am. Room TBA.
Sorry for the late notice. I’d decided a time based on feedback but forgot to share it
with everyone!

Regards,
-David

On Aug 24, 2015, at 9:58 AM, David Lawrence <davidl at jlab.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
>  At last Wednesday’s Offline Software meeting I promised to setup a special meeting
> to discuss the fADC emulation. As a reminder, this is the software that is used to form
> pulse integral, pedestal, and time objects from data taken in mode 8 that has the raw
> data samples in it. We have taken quite a bit of mode 8 data in the first 2 commissioning
> runs so the emulation has turned out to be a critical piece of code.
> 
>  The current emulation does not faithfully reproduce the values that the firmware would
> have produced. We also do not currently have a system for applying different configuration
> parameters for different detector systems. (e.g. NSB, NSA, thresholds). Furthermore, we
> would like the option of applying alternative algorithms that may do a better job than the
> existing firmware. Just these considerations motivates us to refactor the code significantly.
> 
>  I would like to have a special meeting of interested parties so that we can discuss exactly
> which features should be included in the refactored code. We will also try and assign
> tasks and a schedule to the appropriate people so that the work can be completed. 
> 
>  My schedule is fairly limited since I’m leaving town Wednesday after the Online meeting
> and will be gone for all of next week. We will therefore need to meet at either of the
> two times listed below, or defer the meeting until the week of Sep. 7th:
> 
> Tues. Aug. 25th @ 2pm ET
> Wed. Aug. 26th @ 9am ET
> 
> If you would like to participate and can’t make one or more of these times, please let
> me know. Also let me know if you have a preference.
> 
> Regards,
> -David
> 
> 
> 
> 
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