xFOCE/SWFOCE
HW/SW tech meeting

Thu 5 Jan 2011

Project Number: 901219

Engineering Allocations:
headley 780
kecy 1224
herlien 504
maughan 310
oreilly 250
salamy 960
shane 1586

Where we left off:
- Gathered some requirements
- Some discussion of system concepts
- xFOCE == SWFOCE (one design track)
- Using eFOCE design as a starting point

Milestones for 2012 SWFOCE design cycle:
- complete requirements and trade studies
- concept DR Q1 mid/end
- PDR Q?
- Revise resource estimates
- CDR Q?
- Engineering tests in Q4 (earlier?)

Work Structure

Should meet weekly, at least initially (and bring in mechanical folks).

Discussed various approaches and possible alternative system concepts:
O4 chamber controllers
Android in place of Arduino Mega (w/ SIAM?)
Ethernet and HTTP communications between instrument modules

Next week, we'll shoot to flesh out and define these in a little more detail.