Also since the current event size is rather big an effort to reduce it should be made. This might reduce considerably the event size, but caution should be made not to deteriorate the precision in the measurement. More studies are needed for this. For the output controller a memory chip of 16 MB is found and simulation work is under way. The issue of the VME interface between the mother board and the processing unit was briefly discussed.
More work is needed on that too.
Bernard showed they recent work for the processing unit. Frederic showed some recent results from his study on the question of using Floating Point or Integer arithmetic for the energy and time calculation in the RODs. He modified his program such that to do all the calculations either way, including the quantisation error for the 12 bit ADCs. His results are summarized in the table bellow.