Hello CASPERites
There is an open-invitation design review introduction/overview of
ROACH-II on Tuesday 16 March at 16h00-18h00 UTC.
Please note for those in the U.S. that daylight savings started on
Sunday and so 16h00 GMT now corresponds to 09h00 Pacific, not 08h00 as
published in early email discussions.
Further details are appended in Francois' email below. All are welcome
to phone in to +1 510 643 3833 and VNC into the following machine for
the presentation.
VNC details:
host: paper1.eecs.berkeley.edu
on screen 2 (port 5902)
with VNC password "roach2"
This is a view-only service (enforced by server).
Jason
On 12 Mar 2010, at 01:22, Francois Kapp wrote:
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:
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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.
