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- Ken Lauer wrote that AD has some ATCA firmware for reading relative encoders out which may help.  Ken: can you tell us a name we could contact about that?
- Alex (or someone in his group) is going to measure voltage waveforms from the encoder this Friday and will send to you
- I think we’re leaning towards putting the TID box in the FEE, close to where the encoder is.  Alex recommended Mike Estrada as a person who could allocate that rack space for you.  Can you tell us a guess for how many rack spaces you need so Mike can allocate?

Also, we need to patch two fiber pairs (timing, data) to the TID device in the FEE, ideally to room 208 or the FEE alcove.  Jana (or anyone else): do you know if there are two fiber pairs available to us for this, or if we should get something strung?

Ken Lauer writes:

"The Fast Wire Scanner system, which uses ATCA crates for beam-rate monitoring of positions from quadrature encoder signals, is currently led by@Balakrishnan, Namrata (AD).

The original author of the FPGA firmware was @Sapozhnikov, Leonid (TID).

The creator of the RTM board that splits the encoder signal was @Olsen, Jeff J. (TID)."

Encoder Simulator

Chris Ford has an encoder simulator in lab3, with documentation here:  UDP Encoder Interface (rix Mono Encoder).  He also has committed lab3-caf-encoder.cnf to lcls2 GitHub in psdaq/psdaq/cnf/

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