Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2020/06/24

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 24th June

Simon Jolly, Laurent Kelleter, Saad Shaikh, Raffaella Radogna

Wrote a 2 pages draft of project proposal about the development and production of an integrated QA device for PBT.
- Now in touch with the UCL BEAMS research support team to discuss opportunities
- Booked a 1 to 1 appointment for Wed 1st July
FPGA board dispatched on June 17th. Arrival at IT inward office of exchange on June 22nd.

Successfully used Xilinx Clocking Wizard to customise FPGA system clock.
- 120MHz looks like a good frequency to generate signals needed for DDC232.
ALMOST got serial terminal interface between PC and FPGA working.
- Following example project designed to echo serial input in Tera Term.
- Need to sit with Matt to debug project.
Unsure how useful TI example FPGA code will be - quite difficult to understand at this point.
Simon will clarify with Ruben how much time Matt can spend on PBT.
Probably best to purchase new laptop after next revision of Intel-based MacBook Pros - likely to happen end of 2020.
- Still waiting on Ruben to respond.
Old MacBook Pro to be sent to MR Systems for repair. Will get Simon in touch with MR.