1. Pulsar Teststand Room -- Pulsar was initially designed as a teststand tool In God we trust, everything else we test Ted for the Pulsar Group(s) With Pulsar upgrades finishing up, it’s time to take good care of our teststand room… Have you been to the Pulsar Teststand Room lately? Go take a look …

2. In the past 4 years, Pulsar has been used for many different applications. On CDF, so far, about 24 different types (not including the ones still in proposals). All came out from the Teststand Room… over 4 years, > 24 young people worked in the Pulsar teststand room. Best initial training ground for young people challenge: keeping the room clean and organized BoardtypeDescription/name 081L2 Pulsar Muon/XTRP Rx IIa 083L2 Pulsar SVT Road Warrior 085L2 Pulsar Muon/XTRP/L1 Tx or SVT XTRP-emu 086L2 Pulsar Muon/XTRP/L1 Rx IIb 087L2 Pulsar RECES Tx 088L2 Pulsar RECES Rx 089L2 Pulsar Cluster/PreFred Tx 090L2 Pulsar Cluster/PreFred Rx 091L2 Pulsar SVT Tx 092L2 Pulsar SVT Rx 093L2 Pulsar Merger Tx 094L2 Pulsar Merger Rx 095L2 Pulsar L2TS Tx 096L2 Pulsar L2TS 098SVT Pulsar TF (Track Fitter) 099L2 Pulsar test one 100L2 Pulsar test two 101L2 Pulsar Stereo Tx 102L2 Pulsar Stereo Rx 103 SVT Pulsar Hit Buffer 104 SVT AMSRW (AM Seqencer and Road Warrior) 107 L2 Pulsar TrackList A 108 L2 Pulsar TrackList B 109 L2 Pulsar Cal Cluster Finder Rx

3. Have you ever seen this teststand room so clean before?

4. The L2CAL upgrade is done when this bottle is opened… --> so far, the project has been under the beer pressure

5. And where are the spare parts?

6. Two young heroes (from Pisa) hiding in the Pulsar Teststand Room --> working with Laura and others, they have been carefully testing ALL the hardware pieces for the L2CAL upgrade in the past > half year. And they have done an excellent job cleaning up the teststand room!

7. Virginia will move back to Pisa this Sunday… Thank you,Virginia, for your excellent work in the past half year. We will all miss you. Please come back! Lunch party at Go-Rome after this meeting.

8. Pulsar Lunch Party for Virginia @ Go Rome ~30 KHz CDF Pulsar L2 CPU state-machine is designed to only have 2 states (by Daniel): Thirsty or Drunk Warning: this is a lunch party … Try stay thirsty Will have a big party when the upgrades are done