Executive Summary:
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- The DAQ-Upgrade-projects are on their way
- TRBv2 PCB layout finished / order on the way
- MDC-Add-On: schematics finished and discussed

- Enough people to solve the DAQ-upgrade
- Not enough people/ideas for the Trigger-Upgrades

Workplan:
- Concentrate on readout/data transport tasks (high speed)
After that:
- MDC-cluster finder (Attilio and Marek?)
  Idea: - For Au+Au use only RICH and MDC for LVL2 trigger
        - reduction capability of Meta for LVL2 trigger is not enough
        - no new ideas and manpower to have hope here

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Meeting:
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Attendents:
Tiago, Marek, Radek T., Ingo F., Attilio T.
Jrn W., Michael Bhmer, W. Koenig, Soeren L.
Daniel B., Juan G., Sergey Y.,Camilla, Daniel K.,
Marco, Marcin Kajetanowicz
(+ some who I forgot, sorry!)


- presentation of all active and planned projects necessary for the DAQ-Upgrade
- new activities:
  M. Boehmer has interest in building the TRBv2 Add-On for the Rich-Readout
  Marcin K. has interest in building a TRBv2 Add-On for the Shower-Readout/IPU.

- lack of manpower has been identified, mainly for LVL2 Trigger issues

no manpower assigned to:
  - RICH IPU implementation in FPGA for Rich-Readout Add-On
  - MDC cluster search (interest stated by Attilio and Marek)
  - Matching Window "refinement": (theta,phi,p) => (delta theta, delta phi)
    Window. First: investigation with existing data: what is the benefit?
            Second: emulation of this refined algorithm
  - emulation for LVL2 trigger extensions
  - MDC driver card replacement
  - TOF FEE replacement (generate ToT signal for TRBv2, I propose an
    TRBv2 Add-On)
    (update: 2006-10-31: Roberto Bassini stated interest in such a project)

• 2006_10_18_Coll_Meeting_DAQ_Upgrade_Status.pdf: Talk given

• 2006_10_18_Coll_Meeting_DAQ_Upgrade_Status.odp: same thing but as OpenDocumentText