1) All casper collaborators and other interested people are invited to attend a design review of ROACH II on Tuesday March 16, 16:00 to 18:00 GMT. Local Time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=16&month=3&year=2010&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
2) Telecon line: call or skype_out 510-643-3833 (USA) 3) VNC connection information will be emailed out later. 4) LISTEN ONLY: As this is going to be quite a large meeting, please keep your line muted unless you are designated as an external reviewer (see list below). We'd appreciate it if you mostly listen during this meeting unless you have something urgent and short to say. If you have questions, suggestions, or comments, we'd prefer you email them during or after the meeting. Thanks. 5) Presenters: David George(DG), Francois Kapp(FK), Jason Manley(JM), Philip Gibbs(PG) 6) Reviewers: Henry Chen, Alan Langman, Pierre Droz, David Hawkins, Matt Dexter, John Ford, Glenn Jones, Robert Navarro, Dan Werthimer, Kris Adami 7) Chair: Francois Kapp 8) Roach II info is at http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH2 9) Agenda: The purpose of this review to present the big picture, block diagram and specifications of ROACH II and to verify these. We will not be reviewing schematics and details of the board on Tuesday. Agenda: ---------- a) ROACH I, what was right, what was wrong? (FK) b) Why ROACH II? (FK) c) The place of a ROACH II board - where should it be used w.r.t. MORPH, iBOB, Bee2, Bee3, Roach I. (JM) d) Specifications and what motivated them? (JM) e) Financial Implications - estimated cost. (DG) d) Block diagram review highlighting changes from ROACH I. (DG) e) Mezzanine boards - pin out, mechanical, planned and possible boards. (PG) f) Short discussion of mechanical and thermal issues. (PG) g) Tool flow. (JM) h) Applications (user cases). (JM) j) Downgrading to smaller Xilinx devices - what is lost? (DG) k) Schedule and plans for prototypes and production, hardware, layout, reviews, testing, tools and assembly. (DG) l) Risks - cost of devices, availability of devices, technical. (FK) m) Open discussion. n) Action items.
