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Front-end electronics meeting (NIKHEF , September 15 9:00 - 13:00) (lhcb-elec)

From: Jorgen.Christiansen@cern.ch
Date: 8/20/99
Time: 10:08:40 AM
Remote Name: 137.138.115.156
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Dear electronic designers in LHCb
A preliminary agenda for the front-end electronics meeting at NIKHEF 
September 15 9:00 - 13:00 will be something like:
Decision on main L0 parameters:	Jorgen Christiansen
	L0 trigger rate (1MHz)
	L0 derandomizer (16, 900 ns)
	Buffer overflow control (readout supervisor)
	L0 trigger gap (none)
Preliminary rack allocation in Cavern: Daniel Lacarrere (Jorgen Christiansen)
Front-end system of outer tracker: Bart Hommels or somebody else from NIKHEF
Experience with fast front end electronics:
		SCT: Jan Buytaert (To be confirmed)
		APV: John Bibby (To be confirmed)
Planning of front-end/DAQ workshop at CERN October 12-14 (11 - 15 if required)
Quick summary of new L0 front-end requirements document (to be continued in coming workshop):
	http://lhcb.cern.ch/electronics/papers/l0_parameters.pdf
Short discussion on reset schemes for front-end systems (to be continued in coming workshop):
	Two similar but also different approaches to this can be found 
	in two new draft LHCb notes.
	One proposes a whole set of resets for different parts of front-end:
		http://lhcb.cern.ch/electronics/papers/TTC_use_beat.pdf
	The other basically only proposes one general reset:
		http://lhcb.cern.ch/electronics/papers/l0_parameters.pdf
I would be pleased if anybody else would like to present their latest progress on 
front-end electronics.
Best regards
Jorgen
PS: will be away from CERN 23/8 - 3/9