Minutes of the fifth WorldFIP insourcing meeting
26 November 2010, room 864-2-B14*
Present*
BE-CO : Erik Van der Bij, Evangelia Gousiou, Julien Palluel
BE-BI : Jean Jacques Savioz
BE-ABP: Mateusz Sosin
TE-MPE: Fabio Formenti, Bruno Puccio, Reiner Denz, Jens Christoph
Steckert
TE-EPC: Quentin King, Daniel Calcoen.
EN-STI: Giovanni Spiezia, Paul Peronnard, Daniel
Kramer
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Eva* gave a presentation on nanoFIP’s
progress.
Copies of the last (1.3) version of nanoFIP's functional
specification were distributed
and it was stated that shortly the document will circulate through EDMS
for approval.
Talk after the presentation:
Quentin* due to manpower issues will not be able to start developing
before Q3 2011.
He stresses that he is very much interested in the jtag option.
After a fast look at the specs he also mentions that the 16us turnaround
time for the 2.5 Mb/s is too high for use in the power systems. It
should be reduced to around 7us that corresponds to the measured
turnaround time.
Reiner* is facing problems with the processing power of the gateways and mixing of nanoFIP based boards with microFIP boards is therefore not possible. He is planning to start designing nanoFIP based boards around Q1 2011 but he will not be able to pass to nanoFIP until the big shutdown of 2011-2012 or 2012-2013. He is planning to test nanoFIP in a mixed radiation filed at the CNGS facility during 2011. During 2011 and 2012 he will patch the microFIP boards to cope with the radiation problems.
Paul* and Giovanni are planning to start designing around Q1 2011 for the RadMons.
Julien* says that in his plans is the design of a FIPDIAG, using a nanoFIP in stand-alone mode. It could also be tested in CNGS 2011.
Fabio* suggests doing tests with attenuation of the line in order to create a bit error rate curve. He stresses that it is very useful for the characterization of the reliability of nanoFIP.
For Mateusz it is not yet clear if nanoFIP is essential for his team.
Finally, a short discussion was held about the procurement of nanoFIP ICs. Erik says that in the course of 2011 a survey will be made in which the equipment groups should indicate the number of ICs they need so that one large purchase can be made. Out of this purchase samples will be taken that will be radiation tested, most likely according to the ATLAS rules for the procurement of COTS components.
E.Gousiou, June 2011