Fri., Mar. 23rd

I'm not sure if anyone else is coming in today.  Darryl is out sick.  David isn't coming today.  Aarmondas usually comes in from 4-5 on Fridays, but I have to leave early (4:30) today.  If Aarmondas shows up before I leave we will go over the FEDM rewrite together and he can pick up where M.D. left off yesterday.  I think one of the ME guys might drop by at some point?  (They didn't.)

Meanwhile, I think today I will just continue working on the startup sequence, and the server-side code for parsing the FEDM data and reading it into data structures.

Samad came in and we are working to get started on the new OCXO board design.  I put the files for the old OCXO board design on Dropbox in COSMICi_devel/OCXO_board/Old_CTU and shared OCXO_board with Samad; the new board design will be created in another subfolder of it.

We first tried to see if he could use PADS remotely on the ACER through Windows' built-in Remote Terminal support, but apparently it doesn't support having multiple people logged in simultaneously.  Guess you'd need some Server version of Windows for that.

So next, Samad is installing PADS on the ACER, and we will see if it can use the license hosted by the FlexNet server on COSMICi, at port 27000 (lmgrd process).

I spent some time with Samad going through various details of the old OCXO board design in PADS, and showing him how to use various features of the PADS software.

Samad hasn't yet received the new instance of the power distribution board from Donte (the old one had some broken rings around the vias); when he gets the new one, he can solder the various headers onto it and then we can test it in practice.