THE FOLLOWING NOTES WERE CIRCULATED BY SCOTT AFTER THE MEETING ============================================================== Since it's hard to define who hosted the meeting, here are some notes for reference. FADC to saturate at about 50%, ie 40-50% is OK. This means a 1V swing at the input to the FEM, which corresponds to approx a 3K resistor in series with the input of the buffer card buffer. Analog cables - RAL to check info on WWW page, Scott to contact Andre with additional points on shield and optimum pinning on redundant pairs for the individual shields. LVDS adaptor - RAL to check L1/L2 pinout as specified on web page. Comments by end of March latest. Adam sees up to 5mm rack length skew between data lines as acceptable. Curved corners not required. Crate spec to be checked by everyone as SCS start to route now and further changes may not be possible. RAL to check spec of prototyping crate and confirm details ASAP as this is going out to manufacture soon. Prototype crate backplanes should be available by end of May. VME interface on FEM will always run at 10.4Mhz, but FEM will require either 10.4 or 20.8 on its fast input, according to clock scheme implemented on FEM. Timetables.... VME components need to be availabe by end of May VME "stiffware" will be available by end of may, but without some features that need to be debugged on SCS/RAL card. (NB Comment added after meeting - The fpga load will not have been tested on the Service module until mid June, and the generic VME will, in any case, need initial commissioning on an SCS/RAL card as a collaborative effort, possibly in Zurich). Unofficial target for first boards of the service module is end of May, but that it looking difficult to achieve. Official target is end of June, or wherever the cosmic test ends up. Expect to freeze all specifications by end of March Finally.... assuming no big slips, I propose we have a face to face meeting in late in June (ie a few weeks before the cosmic tests) to discuss what we expect to do at DESY. I suggest Manchester, as you could then eyeball the prototype crate, service module and possibly an SCS card in operation.....