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23-FEB-2011 (HST/24-FEB-2011 Taiwan) Meeting Agenda

  1. Items related to year 2 Station design  [link]
  2. Testing update:   (Chiu-Chuan)   [PDF] 
  3. IRS customs release?      (all)
    1. Testing plans -- discussion
    2. In addition to a couple chips for eval testing in Hawaii, Ohio State (Patrick Allison) has requested a couple to test with year 2 readout prototype
  4. What to prepare by the time of the Collaboration meeting (2 weeks from now).
  5. AOB?

12-JAN-2011 (HST/13-JAN-2011 Taiwan) Meeting Agenda

  1. Testing update:   (Chiu-Chuan)   [PDF] 
  2. IRS customs release?      (all)
    1. Testing plans -- discussion
    2. In addition to a couple chips for eval testing in Hawaii, Ohio State (Patrick Allison) has requested a couple to test with year 2 readout prototype
  3. AOB?

5-JAN-2011 (HST/13-JAN-2011 Taiwan) Meeting Agenda

  1. Meeting not held -- but update sent:   (Chiu-Chuan)  [PDF]

22-DEC-2010 (HST/23-DEC-2010 Taiwan) Meeting Agenda

  1. Testing update:   (Chiu-Chuan)  [PDF]
  2. IRS fabrication status      (Gary)
    1. Latest check, a bit confusing as MOSIS projected has 2 dates listed:  23-DEC-2010 and 03-JAN-2011  receipt at MOSIS
    2. In addition to a couple chips for eval testing in Hawaii, Ohio State (Patrick Allison) has requested a couple to test with year 2 readout prototype
  3. AOB?

8-DEC-2010 (HST/9-DEC-2010 Taiwan) Meeting Agenda

  1. Further testing of firmware?   (Chiu-Chuan)  [PDF]
  2. Update on dT calibration??   (Ming-Yuan)  [to be posted]
  3. NTU slides on IRS testing summary (last 2 weeks?)  [to be posted]
  4. Hawaii calibration (LAB3 data) updates  (Rishi/Andres/Kurtis)  [link]
  5. IRS fabrication status      (Gary)
    1. Latest check:  20-DEC-2010  receipt at MOSIS
    2. Bonding diagram for 84280 (IRS2) posted 10-DEC-2010  [PDF]
    3. In addition to a couple chips for eval testing in Hawaii, Ohio State (Patrick Allison) has requested a couple to test with year 2 readout prototype
  6. AOB?

1-DEC-2010 (HST/25-NOV-2010 Taiwan) No Meeting held, but update:

  1. Update on a calibration technique   (Ming-Yuan)  [PDF]

24-NOV-2010 (HST/25-NOV-2010 Taiwan) Meeting Agenda

  1. Timing strobe adjustment resolution   (Chiu-Chuan)  [PDF]
  2. Update on dT calibration??   (Ming-Yuan)  [to be posted]
  3. NTU slides on IRS testing summary (last 2 weeks?)  [to be posted]
  4. Correlated sample calibration method update?   (Kurtis)  [to be posted]
  5. IRS fabrication status      (Gary)
    1. Last check still cliaming  15-DEC-2010  receipt at MOSIS
    2. For reference, BLAB3A shipped yesterday
    3. Status of BIS 711 form?
  6. Gary away (Poland 11/27 - 12/2)  --> defer next week's meeting  ??
  7. AOB?

10-NOV-2010 (HST) Meeting Agenda Items:

  1. Equalizer board received -- some initial (and nice) results:
    1. S21  [PDF]  raw data file [prn]
    2. S11  [PDF]  raw data file [prn]
    3. S21 delay  [PDF]  raw data file [prn]
  2. Updated NTU slides on IRS testing:
    1. Timing issues? (Chiu-Chuan)  [PDF]
    2. First shot at dT calibration (Ming-Yuan)  [to be posted]
  3. Some pointers to calibration papers (updated 11-NOV-2010):
    1.  "Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital converters: Status and future directions" by C. Vogel and H. Johansson. A review paper that mentions the existing approaches.   [PDF]
    2. "Efficient Calibration of Time-Interleaved ADCs via Separable Nonlinear Least Squares", by J.Xu and T. Strohmer.   [PDF]
    3. "TIME-INTERLEAVED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS", by Tsai, Hurts, Lewis   [PDF]
    4. "Calibration of sample-time error in a two-channel time-interleaved analogto-digital converter" by Jamal, Singh, hurst Lewis   [PDF]
    5. "Blind Adaptive Equalization of Mismatch Errors in Time Interleaved A/D Converter System", by Elbornsson, Gustafsson   [PDF]
  4. IRS2 in fab queue  [late December??]
  5. Gary away (KEK 11/14 - 11/21)  --> defer next week's meeting  ??
  6. AOB?

3-NOV-2010 (HST) Meeting Agenda Items:

  1. Update on shipping date for Equalizer prototypes and IRS_eval boards to Hawaii. 
  2. Requested NTU slides on IRS testing:
    1. Measured waveform timing issue (Chiu-Chuan)  [PDF]
    2. First shot at dT calibration (Ming-Yuan)  [PPT]
    3. Correlated sample calibration method (Kurtis)  [link]
  3. IRS2 in fab queue (awaiting confirmation of tape-out), submitted: [Nov. 1]
  4. AOB?

27-OCT-2010 (HST) Meeting Agenda Items:

  1. Update on shipping date for Equalizer prototypes and IRS_eval boards to Hawaii. 
  2. Requested NTU slides on IRS testing  [PDF]
  3. Planned submission -- PO update?: [Nov. 1]
  4. AOB?

13-OCT-2010 (HST) Meeting Agenda Items:

  1. Update on shipping date for Equalizer prototypes and IRS_eval boards to Hawaii. 
  2. Update on IRS2 design:
    1. Two remaining technical issues:
      1. Have all problems been identified?  (testing at NTU of full readout?)
      2. IRS2 enqueued!
  3. Requested NTU slides on IRS testing  [nothing sent]
  4. Planned submission: [Nov. 1]
  5. AOB?

29-SEP-2010 (HST) Meeting Agenda Items:

  1. Update on shipping date for Equalizer prototypes and IRS_eval boards to Hawaii. 
  2. Update on IRS2 design:
    1. Design review held "today" Wednesday, Sept. 29th
    2. Two remaining technical issues:
      1. Have all problems been identified?  (testing at NTU of full readout?)
      2. Extract of layout requires a PC with >= 32 GigaBytes RAM  (I'm working on it -- PC on order)
  3. Requested NTU slides on IRS testing  [PDF]
  4. Possible submission deadlines [Oct 4, Nov. 1, Nov. 15]
  5. Update on TrigRate/Threshold study (time permitting)  [PDF]
  6. AOB?

15-SEP-2010 (HST) Meeting Agenda & Action Items:

  1. Requested via e-mai:  status of the Equalizer design/prototype in FR-4, based upon material presented  
    1. Slides from Chih-Ching (9-SEP-2010)  [PDF]
  2. Melin's slides on Trigger simulation  [PDF] 
    1. ANITA Note on Rician statistics (how to estimate proper signal-to-noise for radio receivers) ANITA Note #68  [PDF]
    2. Reference information for how simulation estimates done previously (ANITA Note #4)  [PDF]
  3. Requested NTU slides on IRS testing   [PDF]
  4. Continued Dialog on proposed timetable
  5. Next possible IRS2 submission deadlines [Oct 4, Nov. 1, Nov. 15]

8-SEP-2010 (HST) Meeting Agenda Items:

  1. Requested from Peter (from earlier ARA Meeting):  status of the Equalizer design/prototype?
  2. Requested NTU slides [PPTX]   [PDF]
    1. Follow-up upon question:  posted information for the IRS_eval:
    2. Layout files [.pcb]  [Gerbers]
    3. Schematic files [.sch]  [PDF]
  3. Discussion on proposed timeline
  4. (TARGET2 ASIC in design queue ahead of...)
  5. AOB?


Testing task list:
Recent documentation:
  1. DOR API (Kael) [PDF]
  2. Extremely useful set of IceRay era files (Hagar) [link]
  3. TRACR Programming (Hagar) [link]  
  4. Additional info:  JTAG boundary scan {XSVF generation/flasher IF} -- (John Kelley)  [link]
  5. Archive server copy of IceCube DAQ/Timing [PDF]
  6. Detailed RapCal write-up [ps]
  7. IceRay (1.8km) Cable documentation (Bob M.) [PDF]
  8. Comment from Bob M. on cable breakout/pins [txt]
  9. Cable emulator documentation: 
    1. 3km cable emulator [PDF] 
    2. Quad cable simulator [PDF]
    3. Cable emulator parts [PDF]
  10. ICRR schematics [PDF] (CF ARA ELOG #17)
    1. USB interface board schematics [PDF]
  11. DOR card driver (Hagar 14-MAY-2010) [rpm]
  12. Schedule reference (Albrecht 22-APR-2010) [PDF]
  13. kick-off meeting Indico [webpage]
  14. ASIC of reference: IRS design [homepage]
  15. IceRay Testing Reference (John Kelley)
    1. IceRay Integration visit [website]
    2. Flasher board [link]
    3. Mini how-to document [PDF]

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