[evla-sw-discuss] Notes from ASG meeting of June 18

[Barry Clark]

B. Clark feels it is time to define the interface between the MIB
and the screen(s) that work with them.  He has earlier suggested a
lowest level of this interface, which was suggested to be counterproductive.
He will flesh things out a bit and try again.

B. Sahr reports that to get Java on the MIB would cost $100 K and not
be delivered until December.  Both cost and schedule are problems.

W. Koski reports that the ether PHY board for the development board 
is waiting for a part at the moment.  He is proceeding with all deliberate
speed.  The MIB prototype itself is still waiting information on how
it is to be used in devices.  He is currently working on the parallel
output design.  He is thinking of TTL, despite a slightly higher interference
potential than LVDT.  It is also unknown how the basic timing signal
(the system heartbeat) will be distributed.

B. Sahr is looking into the development environment.  For initial development,
the on-chip-debugging-system is required.  This is only available from 
Windows.  He is therefore intending to buy only the Windows version of the
toolset.

B. Clark asked about code walkthroughs - when should they be done - early
in the planning phase with only method interfaces, after a real code is
available, or late in the phase after initial debugging.  G. Hunt answered
"yes".  B. Clark volunteered the bootstrap code for booting from ROM as
a guinea pig.