Online Monthly Review

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GLAST Large Area Telescope IT Weekly
Meeting IT/Online May 5, 2005 Ric
Claus Online Manager SLAC
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Online activities

• All of Online personnel observe Cleanroom
  operations
• Everyone attends the 315 meeting
• Learning about non-reported problems
• Trying to find ways to reduce Operator Error
• Beyond 2 towers
• Housekeeping multi-pen strip chart GUI
• Parallelizing INT scripts
• Trying to move some LATTE 5 features into
  production earlier (e.g., HSK, LATc)
• More design work on LCI method of test script
  structure
• E-logbook
• Brian requested ability to search shift logbook
• Quickly provided with Google Desktop
• Stand-alone e-logbook issue?
• Implementing requested improvements

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Online progress

• LATTE 4.9.0
• CCB JIRA number 34
• GPIB support for Agilent power supply (Brian)
• RS-485 support for BPU Simpson meters (Brian)
• FSW multi-tower PIG bug (Lester)
• FSW PIG behavior provides source of OE for
  Testers
• ACD (ancient) GASU problem (Jim provided
  work-around and a fix for LATTE)
• LTE-254 SW verification passes, but in elog, the
  SW shows red. Fix this inconsistency (Brian)
• LTE-251 If rcReport generation fails, wrong
  rcReport line is extracted from rcReport.out
  during export
• LTE-257 Message logger does not launch
• More?

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Online progress

• LATTE 5
• Exposing VSC interface to Python
• Trying to pin down the core architecture
• Having difficulty compiling combined LATTE FSW
  in any Windows environment
• Visual Studio
• CygWin
• MinGW
• Jim It doesnt look good. Still some wiggle
  room, but hes discouraged
• Move to Linux?
• Build with multiple compilers and tie EXEs
  together with network code (cumbersome,
  performance hit, extra work and maintenance)

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LATTE 5 overview (updated)
Flight Software (Vx Works)
S/C VSC
LATTE 4-5
CMD
CMD
CMD
CMD
CMD
CMD
CMD
CMD
CMD
1553
Script
Commanding
Reset
GPS
Raw Arch
Raw Arch
XML Schema Config
LATc
1 PPS
LATc file
Discretes
DisplayClient
Monitoring
MySQL
UN-CCSDS
Analysis
UNCOMPRESS
Consumer
ScienceData
Science Data
UN-CCSDS
LDF
LDF
Etc
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LATTE 5

• Lots of possibilities

1553, etc.
CCSDS
SA SIIS
TestExecutive
LAT
VSC
TestExecutive
LAT
ITOS
TestExecutive
LAT
Some SIIS?
Time-tagged STOL
TestExecutive
LAT
Ethernet
TestExecutive
LATsimulator
Ethernet