Hit mixing between physics and multiple sources of background
Data and control interface between trgEM, trgDC and the reconstruction
Direct access to simulation data (XDR format)
Event and clock level synchronization of EMC and DCH trigger simulations.
Capability to simulate the Global Trigger
Simulation of the Fast Control system's clocks; conversion between clock tick, beam crossing number, and time; random synchronization of clocks
Random number generation interface and initialization.

Package is essentially complete. Has been used for detailed trigger simulation studies. Last tested with SRT release 1.0.3. Developed by Ed Frank (package coordinator) and Paul Dauncey.

Having built it, it is time to take it apart:

interface codes to the trgDC and trgEM packages
mixer code to the Framework

The FC clocks, global trigger, and random number components can either become packages, or migrate into the reconstruction utilities package.

Needs from other parts of simulation

Because of the large data samples needed to perform trigger studies, and because real analysis is done, work on trgFrame has affected the designs of the Framework, dbio (C++ -> F77 copy-back and data versioning), and the AbsEvent. On the one hand this is good, but on the other hand it distracts reconstruction design from its most immediate goals. It is important for the simulation group to realize this and therefore consider carefully any actions that lead to data versioning issues in dbio.
GHit dbio objects should be (1) decoupled completely from digi objects and (2) complete so that all reasonable digitization ideas can be accomplished without the need to re-simulate at the hit level.