STT Progress report 
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August 2000

* continued design work of all parts of the system 
* TFC design and algorithm development progressing
* TFC layout nearly completed
* STC:
     - continued design of channel logic and work on board layout
     - started testing of VHDL code with test vectors
     - started generation of look-up tables for hit filter
     - reinvestigated road widths and pt bins for hit filter
* STT simulator:
     - continued debugging
     - implemented second clustering algorithm 
        (the one that is in the VHDL code for the STC cluster finder)
     - implemented code for generation of test vectors	
            for cluster finder and hitfilter
     - started preparations to use translation manager	    
* beam spot monitoring:
     - started serious discussion with on-line group and database people to
         define needs