Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2020/06/03

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 3rd June (Everyone is working from home)

Simon Jolly,Laurent Kelleter, Saad Shaikh, Raffaella radogna

Finished reading and giving feedback on Laurent's thesis.
Tested He and C fitting using GSI DDDs as reference.
- Can't say much about quality of fitting and Bragg curve reconstruction as GSI data uses a ripple filter and has different energy steps to HIT. Need to compare with actual HIT FLUKA simulation.
Finished Udemy online course on FPGA programming.
- Some useful introductory exercises using basic I/O on Zybo board beyond "Hello World" Blinky exercise.
- Will move onto Xilinx University Programme material to continue training.
Front-end boards have been made by CosyLab!
- Will analyse datasheet for TI DDC232 to understand I/O signals and present report on timeline for operation.
Need to get serial interface working to send commands from computer to FPGA.
- Have downloaded Tera Term terminal emulator, will find example code to get it working.
- Need to buy USB-UART converter expansion module for Zybo Z7 to communicate with FPGA without having to go through on-board processor.
Will start going through example Verilog code for DDC264EVM FPGA serial interface.