STT design page

• general documents
• STT testing and commissioning
• STT motherboard, link transmitters and receivers,..
• FRC
• CTT, L1 broadcasting
• STC, clustering
• TFC, Track fitting
• Monitoring
• downloading, control
• STT simulator
• Queueing Studies
• DØ online
• Electronics pages
• SMT
• alignment issues
• Trigger pages
• VBD,VRB,VTM,...
• CPU
• FPGA's
• VHDL

Documents about STTpp design

• Old (1998 and before) design related notes
• Draft of technical design report (18 March 1998)
  (very preliminary)

Documents about DØ trigger

• DØnote 3322 (description of DØ trigger) by Jerry Blazey (12 Nov. 1997)
  ps,   pdf

motherboard, LTB, LRB

• motherboard documentation
• LTB/LRB documentation

FRC

• Hal Evans' STT page
• FRC documentation (July 2000)

L1CTT, L1 broadcasting

• L1CTT homepage
• current protocols, v07-00
• Levan's trigger page
• Bill Lee's note about overlap regions (30 March 2001):
  ps,  pdf
• Thei Wijnen's picture showing detector mapping in octants, sextants, STOV and STSX:
  eps,  ps,   pdf,   gif,   jpg  

• L1CTT broadcasting (Hal Evans 16 June 1999)
• L1 trigger timing (U. Heintz, 30 June 2000)

• Manuel Martin's homepage (lots of stuff about CTT, protocols, broadcasting,...)
  (some versions of WebBrowsers cannot handle this page!)
  Links from Manuel's page:
  • Protocols and definitions for transfers Manuel's "NEW" page)
  • Collector/Broadcaster architecture
  • trigger diagram
  • Links
  • Articles
  • DØnotes
    • DØnote 3626: New Hardware, New Protocols (Manuel Martin, Feb. 1999)
    • DØnote 3638: Definitions for L3 data transfer from the CFT trigger (Manuel Martin, Fred Borcherding, April 1999)
  • Talks
  • Protocols
  • specifications for data transfer from CTT to L2STT(Manuel Martin, 3 Sept. 1999)

• Fred's homepage
  (has links to CFT/CTT related documents)

• Jamieson Olson's homepage (digital front-end board..)

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clustering, STC

• Uli Heintz' STT page
• Boston EDF STT page (Eric Hazen)
• STC specifications (1st draft) (U. Heintz and M. Narain, 8 June 1999)
• STC channel specification (22 June 2000))(Earle,Hazen,Heintz,Narain)

• clustering -- 1st attempt (Silvia, 3 March 1999)
• addendum to DØ note 3599 (more about input data (Silvia, 25 March 1999))
• decoder part of clusterfinder (Silvia, 21 April 1999)
• DØnote 3684 about trigger simulator and its clusterfinder (Silvia Tentindo-Repond, 10 Sept. 1999)

Track fitting

• John Hobbs' STT page ( see there for notes on track fitting)
• Study of computational algorithms for track fitting in the STT (J. Egdemir, J.D. Hobbs, T. Mentes, W. Taylor, Sept. 1999) (pdf), (ps)
• note on track fitting (John Hobbs, Sept. 1999) (pdf), (ps)
• TFC document (21 July 2000) (Hobbs, Pancake, Taylor)
  

STT testing and commissioning:

• fake data generator documentation (Steve Linn, 12 Jan. 2002) MSWord ,   pdf

• SVXII emulation card (Yimei Huang) MSWord,   pdf

STT monitoring:

• L2STT monitoring (note by Sailesh Chopra, 25 Feb. 2000)

• about STT monitoring (Silvia Tentindo-Repond, 10 Jan. 1999)
• L2 monitoring page (Jim Linnemann)
• NU SMT page
• Xiaoling Fan's page
  secondary DAQ path
  SMT online monitor
  SMT online calibration
  SMT download system

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downloading, control

• DØ controls group Web page
  (links to information about D0 control system, EPICS, Python, VxWorks)
• SMT download system

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STT simulator:

• DØnote 3684 about trigger simulator and its clusterfinder (Silvia Tentindo-Repond, 10 Sept. 1999)
• L1L2 simulator talks

Queueing studies:

• DØ note 3492 ( Terry Heuring's note on queueing studies) (26 June 1998)
• Jim Linnemann's queueing page
• DØ note 3673 (Stephan Linn's first note on queueing using Ptolemy) ps, pdf,
• DØ note xxxx (Stephan Linn's second note on queueing using Ptolemy) (Draft, 6 Nov. 1999) ps, pdf
• DØ note xxxx: TFC queueing study for run2b (Stephan Linn, 10 April 2002): ps,  pdf,  MSWord, 

• Interactions per crossing
  for L = 8E31, L = 2E32

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Links to DØ online related pages:

• DØ online home page
• DØ online Workshop (June 1999)
• Links to talks at DØ online Workshop

Links to DØ electronics related pages:

• D0server1 homepage
• Fred's homepage
  (has links to CFT/CTT related documents)
  

  CFT electronics page

  Bob Angstadt's page (assorted engineering notes)

  Dave Huffman's page (LV powersuppplies, calibration systems)

  Mike Utes' homepage (sequencer, SVX2e chip, VRB,..)

  NU SMT page

  Fermilab electronics system engineering (ESE) homepage

  ("Barsotti's group")

  documentation index

  SVX page

  SVXII family documentation

  SVX readout system overview

  VRB specification document (includes some info on VTM)

  VRB Transition Module (VTM)

  D0 Trigger Hub and Links
  (serial link receiver, J3 backplane, D0 trigger system specifications,..)

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SMT/STT numbering, data flow, etc.

• DØ SMT page
• SMT technical design report (p.80 missing)
• SMT naming conventions
• barrel and disk numbering scheme
• SMT local coordinate system and indexing scheme
• Silvia's notes
• DØ note 3599, (Silvia Tentindo-Repond and Brian Connolly)
  addendum to DØ note 3599 (more about input data (Silvia, 25 March 1999))
• Uli Heintz' SMT page

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SMT alignment issues

• Yuri Gershtein's note on alignment requirements pdf, ps, MSWord .doc,
• D0 note by D. Chakraborty and J. Hobbs about SMT alignment strategy, pdf

Links to trigger related pages

• Trigger page
• Level 1 Trigger page
• L1 discussion page
• L2 Web page
• L3 Web page
• D0 Trigger Hub and Links (serial link receiver, J3 backplane, D0 trigger system specifications,..)

• Uli Heintz' STT page
• Boston EDF STT page (Eric Hazen)
• Fred's homepage
  (has links to CFT/CTT related documents)
  

  CTT and front end ectronics page

  L1 CFT/CPS/FPS Trigger commissioning page (Stefan Gruenendahl)

  Bob Angstadt's page (assorted engineering notes)

  Manuel Martin's homepage (lots of stuff about CTT, protocols, broadcasting,...)
  (note that this page apparently causes Netscape 4.7x on Linux to crash, while Mozilla and Konqueror can handle it; Netscape 4.7 and 6 on Windows is OK)

  Jamieson Olson's homepage (digital front-end board..)

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VBD,VRB,VTM,...

• SVX sequencer
• VBD Manual
• VBD Manual (local copy)
• VRB specification document (includes some info on VTM)
• VRB Transition Module (VTM)

in-crate CPU

• Motorola MVME 2300 series

FPGA's

• Altera
  Altera Devices
  Altera Flex
  Altera Acex
  Altera Apex
  Altera University Program

• Xilinx
  Xilinx Virtex series
  Xilinx University Program
  Xilinx University Resource Center

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VHDL

• VHDL stuff