Rich Control Applications User Manual
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1. a Using the Dialog window Select Target to command Choose from the combo box the command Alive as shown in figure 5 and then click on the OK button After the OK the window Select Target to Command opens up as shown in figure 7 Tick the box named Select a Complete Chamber then click on the grey bar that represents the whole chamber Click on the OK button This action sends the command to all 24 BORAs of the chamber b Running a script file To check if a complete chamber is alive you can run_ the corresponding script file Alive ch do in the folder H rich script files Alive all chambers The procedure to run a script file was explained before see Programming DOLINA Rich Control File Miew Window Thresholds Send Bun Options Help E RUNNING Not RUNNING a select target to Command xl Number of chamber Chamber T Talk with Dolina l Select a complete Chamber Select Manual Seleccion Figure 7 shows the window from which we choose the chamber to send a command Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 18 Reprogramming the DSP and FPGA of a BORA Assume one BORA is dead hence not alive We must first reset the BORA a Using chamberX do script file you reset and reprogram all 24 BORA s DSPs and the FPGAs of chamber X all over again b There are 192 do files in the folder H rich script_ files that reset and reprogram the DSP and the FPGA corresponding to2. J gt T gt e2 lt O N jamie O N Vw Figure 4 View of the organization of the control computers and front end electronic of the Rich Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 7 The first four programs are executed on the FIGHCCrl computer riohetrL cern chyu Ihe last above mentioned application will be running in the richsrv computer 2 1 Rich Control Application This program is the main application and performs the communication between the user and the Rich control Data Acquisition System This application allows the user to send commands and programs through the Rich DSP network See Chapter 1 to the Bota boards and eventually to the CATCHes using the fibers offering the complete control of the system by the user One view of the principal Rich Control Windows 1s shown on the figure 2 chapter 1 Rich Control window This application performs two fundamental set Of asks a The communication with all the devices available in the system see 5 In this set of tasks the program manages several kinds f internal packets is engineering frames calibration noise thresholds events commands programs and generates several kinds of files depending on data b The communication between the user and the data acquisition system provided by the windows application GUI the script editor and the main view application This set of tasks is explained in t
3. Send comm Send comm Send comm Send comm Send comm Send comm End Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test Channel test OOOOOOOOO OO O OOOOOOOOO O O O 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 OOOOOOOOO OO O OOOOOOOOO OO O OOOOOOOOO OO O 6 0 6 1 6 2 6 3 6 4 6 5 6 6 6 7 6 8 6 9 6 10 6 11 If it s necessary include some comments you can do at end of the Script file like in this case The figure 2 The Noise measurement of the half of chamber number 6 with 2048 samples Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 38 1 Colavita A All you wanted to know about decoding the RICH 1 but were afraid to ask 2 Baum et al BORA A front end board with local intelligence fOr the RICH detector or the COMPASS collaboration Nucl instr Meth A 433 1999 426 I Crespo Mey COMPASS RICH Read Out System Apendix A Network Packets ICTP INFN Microprocessor Lab 4 Crespo M COMPASS RICH L Read Out System ICTP INEFN Microprocessor Lab 9 Diaz V Rich Control application Fundamentals Documentation LETP INEN Mreroprocessor Lab LOI Diaz Vy Rach Control Application from the Control room TOCIP INEN MieCrOprocessor Lab Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 39
4. be running on the computer of the Control Room sending a request each time it is necessary This server process locally exchanges messages with the Rich Control application which in its turn sends the commands to the Bora s DoPS For more details see 6 Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 10 irain zi 1 hae My Computer Netscape6 Shortcut to Mlab print GI Ni Comp EJ ue AO il Network Free Neighborhood Unlim amp Shortcut to ted Mb print ex B WinZip Internet fe Rich_control_server Explorer Open the conection and wait ee E Recycle Bin eee X Z My Briefcase Microsof rosoft Visual C 5 0 a F Hat nt4_421 exe Spy A Start a php Sime apublil ato_s Deb nois Mee Gui a amp Teln rich Ric DEI 412PM Figure 4 show the Rich_control Server window starting and opening the connection 2 2 1 How to Start the application Double Click on the icon Rich Control server you have on the desktop A Message Box shown on the figure 4 appears Press OK button to Start the application Press OK button again if the connection is successfully opened Important This windows will disappear when the client process requests a command remotely and the process is active and available to the client process request continuously It 1s possible to control the background execution of this process seeing the task m
5. being around 3 5 GBytes per day the events are Sayed remotely on the another computer in the Rich Barrack called richsrv richsrv cern ch There is an application called RichDataBackup running continuously taking the data and saving it on the rewritable CD The configuration of this application is set by the config file located in the Rich exe folder The lines Setdrive lt drive gt and SetRemoteDrive lt drive gt an Gl the configuration file Rich exe config txt specify the location of the RICH folder in the local computer richcetrl and in the remote machine richsrv respectively There are mainly two configurations in which we can work with richctrl and richsrv Working with richctrl only The drive specified in the lines Setdrive and SetRemoteDrive of the configuration file must be the same and must belong to richctrl In this case everything will be saved in richcectrl and no Data Back Up is foreseen Working with both richsrv and richctrl The drives specified LN Setdrive and SetRemoteDrive must belong to richctrl and richsrv respectively The remote drive specified in SetRemoteDrive must be mapped onto richctrl In this case only Event and Engineering Frame files will be saved on the remote drive and Data Back Up 1S possible To learn on how to install and operate the Rich Data Back Up software application see Appendix B Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 13 3 Programming the System In this secti
6. calibration file can be found in H rich data calibration 99 2 Many BORAs Open using the pulldown Menu of Rich Control Send gt Run Script file a script file located at H Rich Script files Channel test 2048 samples Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 21 The following script files are available Channel test chX do measures noise in chamber X 0 1 7 Channel test all chambers do measures noise in all 192 BORAs it takes about five minutes Programming Thresholds in the BORAs We assume that at the DSPs of Dolina and the BORAsS have already been correctly programmed Until this date the system must be idle that is not taking data At boot time the thresholds are set all equal to zero The threshold editor will also allow overwriting the results of a uniform procedure by adding masking possibilities The mask will allow setting arbitrarily the threshold to its maximum value to for instance cancel the data from produced by the beam halo Here we describe what we can do now and here For setting thresholds we can work at BORA or CHAMBER level We can also generate thresholds at RICH level by using the Threshold Generator 1 Only one BORA There are three methods to generate and load thresholds into a single BORA a The first method allows setting all thresholds to the same value b The second method allows sending a trh file The trh files are ASCII and consequently the operator can
7. the slot etc Then the DSP waits for a program or simple command from the Network At boot time the 192 FPGAs just wait to be programmed by the corresponding DSP on the BORA board The FPGAS need to be programmed to perform any function whatsoever Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 6 2 Rich Control Programs Set LA chapter Ly 1t was described the architecture of the data acquisition system This chapter introduces the set of programs that the Rich operator needs to program calibrate and supervise the readout system In the Rich Barrack there are two dedicated PC s to operate the Rich richctrl computer and richsrv computer standing for RICH server The first computer has the Dolina board and allows the control and supervision of the Rich and the second one stores the acquired data Both PC s are interconnected through a dedicated Ethernet link The front end electronics Bora boards are in the experimental area Eigth serials networks connect Dolina with 192 Bora boards see figure 4 The applications that form the Rich Control Programs Seu are l1 Rich Control application 2 Rich Control Server application 3 Rich Event Viewer application 4 Rich Noise Thresholds Viewer application 5 RichDataBackup application Dedicated link h ce ST tA S gA richetrl richsrv computer computer Dolina Board Rich barrack es ye ge pi i gt D p amp D a O
8. value that mast De an the tange 0 TO OUZ For method c we fill the blank text box under Set Threshold from a calibration file We click the Select Calibration file button afterwards selecting a file from the chosen subdirectory We then click the OK button and the thresholds are sent to the target BORA 14 L023 15 L023 16 1023 L7 LOZ 18 1023 Ly 1023 20 O23 21 r023 22 LOZ3 23 1023 24 POEL Figure 10 shows a portion of a trh ASCII file The first column is the channel number and the second column is the value of the threshold The file can be edited by hand using any text processor Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 24 2 Complete chamber To load thresholds to a complete chamber a Enter the chamber number 0 to 7 b Click check button Send the threshold values to the all chamber Gc Cilick Ok NOTE With this procedure the application loads the latest trh files not the thr files found in the corresponding BORA folders See below on how to generate these trh files 3 The complete RICH To send the thresholds to the complete Rich For this method you open RICH Control first then using the mouse you Thresholds Send Thresholds to all the Rich NOTE With this procedure the application loads the latest trh files not the thr files found in the corresponding BORA folders and the thresholds will be sent chamber by chamber as you can see in the main application window Se
9. would need to receive as an attachment a copy of the file Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 29 Data taking for a chamber The commands explained above could be issued to a single Chamber following the procedure explained for the Command Alive In this case the colored buttons RUNNING NOT RUNNING will not work and will be up to you to know the state of the chamber this is because RUNNING NOT RUNNING buttons this was thought for all the RICH RICH data Back Up During a normal run the RICH generates many data in many small files In order not to saturate and slow the NT server machine with a huge system file it is possible to save and eventually back up data in a remote machine from now on called richsrv standing for RICH server On richsrv will be a specific application RichDataBakUp to back up data from the hard disk to rewritable CDs The lines Setdrive lt drive gt and SetRemoteDrive lt drive gt in the configuration file Rich exe config txt specify the location of the RICH folder in the local PC raichetrl and in the remote machine richsrv respectively There are mainly two configurations in which we can work with richctrl and richsrv 3 Working with ri h hcetrl only Ihe drive specified in the lines Setdrive and SetRemoteDrive of the configuration file must be the same and must belong to richctrl In this case everything will be saved in richectrl and no Data Back Up is fores
10. Rich Control applications User Manual How to Operate the RICH Data Acquisition System By the ICTP INFN Microprocessor Laboratory Crew Version of 06 03 The manual is still under development Hence look for the last version available Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 1 TABLE of CONTENTS Introduction 1 Getting Started Basic requirements for the operation of the system The Windows NT Server The BORA s power supply The optoisolator s power supply Chips in the system that require programming What happens at boot time 2 Rich Control Programs Set Rich Control application Rich Control Server application Event Viewer application Rich Noise Thresholds Viewer application RichDataBackup application 3 Programming the System Programming DOLINA Checking if a DSP in DOLINA controlling a Chamber is alive Reprogramming a DSP in DOLINA Programming the FPGA and DSP in the BORAs Checking if a BORA is alive Checking if a chamber is alive Reprogramming the DSP and FPGA of a BORA 4 Operating the System Measuring Pedestals and Noise of one Chamber Programming Thresholds in the BORAs Using the Threshold Generator Programming the RICH for Data Taking RICH data Back Up Appendices Appendix A Rich Low Voltage Power Supply LOVE Appendix B Rich Data BackUp Apendix C RCSL The Rich Control Scripting Language Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 2 Intro
11. ame effect is to darken the name of the file within the list of files and clicking the OPEN button Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 14 The script file will execute the many instructions contained in the do file While it executes the operation the software shows messages on the screen Look for possible error messages since they express the fact that some of the procedures were not correctly executed Checking if a DSP in DOLINA controlling a Chamber is alive We assume that at this point you have already programmed all eight DSPs Chambers of Dolina If you want to check if the DSPs have been properly programmed there is a command whose action is similar to Ping on the network that allows you to check if a DSP of Dolina controlling a chamber is ready for operation The procedure is the following Using the Menu bar open Send gt Send comm The Command window opens up asking for the command to send to the system The screen is shown in figure 5 Rich Control File Miew Window Thresholds Send Run Options Help k RUNNING NOT RUNNING Commands Cancel Catchs_Sync Get Thresholds PC_ Start Reset Stat_ot_run Figure 5 shows the send send comm With the combo box opened Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 15 From the text box choose Are you alive Click the OK Dutton The Select Target to Command window opens up as shown in figure 6 A Rich Cont
12. anager process list 2 3 Noise Thresholds Viewer To be filled soon Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 11 2 4 Event Viewer This application allows the visualization of the complete Rich event arrived to the PC When the events arrive to the Rich Control computer they are saved on the local disk by the RichControl application in a file in the event folder where it is possible to find the date the run number and the burst number with extension evi Fou example 2002 02 15 RUN O BURST 2450 6V7L This file has only two columns the address of the pixel and the hit value Then an event file is saved remotely on the richsrv computer for each Bora with the complete event information event header quantity of hits and event trailer richctrl p F aig Rich Controller Dolina H Removable Floppy D on Richsry Dolitest Rich_control C Disk E J b Rich Control Event Yiewer File Network Outlook P Neighborhood Express Position 276 123 Value 0 2001 11 02_RUN_1923_BURST_1 evt FA Acrobat Reader 5 0 Internet Explorer f lomega Tools for Window fil WDialog Master v2 1 WDialog Guard Noise_Viewer Event_viewer g HP CD Writer Plus Toolbox Figure 5 show the Rich Event Viewer showing a complete event Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 12 2 5 RICH data Back Up Due to the rate of data arriving from the data acquisition sytem
13. ation file In H Rich Data Calibration 0O tri and select any calibration file The application will automatically select independently of your selection the latest calibration files of all 192 BORAsS found in the corresponding folders 4 Click on button Save thres then you will be prompted to enter the output file name Thresholds files of type trh will be saved in the BORA folders Channel Masking Setting the threshold to the highest value can mask any channel To do this one must know the absolute coordinates of the channel at RICH level These values can then be stored in a mask file with msk extension This file can be generated by either using any ascii editor or the mask part of the threshold generator The threshold value in the mask file overwrites the existing threshold values at the specified location creating a new threshold file a The following steps show how to generate the mask file 1 Enter the X Y coordinates in their respective input boxes 2 Enter the new threshold value e g 1023 in the New Value box To commit the change click on Add Mask button 3 The Remove Mask button can be used to remove any mask from the mask file corresponding to the X Y coordinates 4 Steps 1 to 3 can be performed for all channels of interest 5 Save the mask file by using Save Mask or Save Mask As DUTTON b Applying Mask To generate a new threshold file from the mask file 1 boa
14. d the RICH threshold Erle from the RICH Data threshold values RICH directory 2 Load the mask file 3 Click Apply Mask to thres button This will generate a new threshold file in each BORA directory and the RICH directory Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 27 Programming the RICH for Data Taking We assume that all the DSPs of Dolina and the BORAs have already been correctly programmed and the thresholds with threshold values such as to obey the rule that all events should have occupancy below 20 The violation of such a rule will produce the overflow of the FIFO controlling the fiber Also the trigger rate should be below 70 ktrigger s The violation of this rule will produce an overflow of the Cypress FIFOs We also assume that there are event triggers as well as Start of Burst SOB and End of Burst EOB triggers coming from the TCS Three commands are needed for data taking a Sync catchs b start of Run and c Stop the run a Sync CATHes CATCHes Synchronization Before any data taking we must be sure that the BORA CATCH link is synchronized There is a specific command for this Sync CATHes This command must be issued after any RICH CATCH has been rebooted In case we suspect there 1S no RICH CATCH synchronization we can use this command before any data taking To issue Syne CATHes command to the whole RICH use the mouse EO Select Send gt Sync CATHes b Start of Run Using the mou
15. duction Figure 1 shows the main components of the data acquisition The system consists Figure 1 iL Li COO Det cee pet TEC laced vonn eel bore mo Seen par PR A liao Halles Five em se auber Tpper 4 Chun bers Fii a i Pixel 287 237 Aon sA 24 Brk a 12 Bote ld dph ulah is BOL LEAL Juks C ee urs Tiber Enum rigg Loot ol VE Filin nel Co onkrisl PY 4 E Z E 5 z m ume Lur excl CMa oATECOE LOL byar ThE THA DF Al ere goiciap Feri Dn ippa Ain Clare the figure shows the architecture of the data acquisition system An NT Server The Dolina Board inserted into a PCI slot of the server Dolina has eight DSPs on board one for each of the chambers of the RICH Eight optoisolator boards whose mission is to de couple the ground of the chambers from that of the NT server 192 BORA boards 24 for each chamber The BORAS of each chamber are connected forming a 1 Mbit s network with the corresponding DSP in DOLINA Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 3 1 Getting Started Basic requirements for the operation of the system To operate successfully the system three initial requirements must be met e The NT server must be up and running e The BORA S power supply must me ON e The optoisolator board power supply must be ON The NT server If the NT Server is powered OFF turn it ON It starts to boot and at a certain moment it s
16. e below on how to generate these trh files Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 25 Using the Threshold Generator This can be used to generate thresholds files for all BORAs of the RICH using as input the latest calibration files tri found in the corresponding BORA folders These threshold files will be generated according to the formula Ti Pi z oi as explained before Open using the pulldown Menu of Rich Control Thresholds gt ThresholdsGenerator The window Threshold Generator opens as shown in figure 11 Rich Control File Miew Window Thresholds Send Bun Options Help L RUNNING NOT RUNNING Threshold and Mask Generator THRESHOLD ELS Position fo 0 207 Position fo 0 287 Old Value Threshold 0 1023 Sigma Po Ss TDEY Multiplier Ny Po 0 1 00 0 1023 save Thres As save Thres New Value 0 0 1023 save Mask Add Mask Apply Mask To Thres save Mask As Remove Mask Load any file Load All E Figure 11 shows the Threshold generator window Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 26 1 Enter the sigma coefficient z in the box Multiplier N 2 Check the button Load all and click the button Load file 3 When the load file button is clicked a dialog box opens Select the calibration format in the File of Type field Then browse tO ELI any calibr
17. e must be the drive letters for the CD writers and are comma separated dstndrives e f g h Starting Stopping and Quitting the application using the buttons As mentioned above the application starts automatically with the Start Backup disabled and the Stop BackUp button enabled 1 Click on Stop BackUp button to stop backing up the data Stop BackUp 2 To resume the backup click on Start BackUp button E wit 3 To quit the application click on Exit button Start BackUp Starting Stopping and Quiting the application from the system tray When the application is minimized it stays on the system tray and continue running in the background cp imm 12 55 PM Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 33 The starting stopping and quitting can also be performed without maximizing the application To do this 1 Click on the icon with the right mouse button A menu will pop up l Open Start BackUp Stop BackUp Close D atab ackup 12 59 PM 2 Select any of the menus with the left mouse button The only menus that need explaining are the open and the Close DataBackup ones a The open menu maximizes the application in case one wants to look at the status of the disks Double clicking the icon has the same effect b The Close DataBackup is the same as the Exit button WARNING 1 The access to the CDRW is slow so aft
18. een 4 Working with both richsrv and richctrl The drives specified in Setdrive and SetRemoteDrive must belong to raichetrl and richsrv respectively The remote drive specified in SetRemoteDrive must be mapped onto richctrl In this case only Event and Engineering Frame files will be saved in the remote drive and Data Back Up is possible To learn on how to install and operate the Rich Data Back Up software application see Appendix B Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 30 Appendix A Rich Low Voltage Power Supply LOVE To be filled soon Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 31 Appendix B Rich Data BackUp This application moves the files in the specified Rich data directory to the CD rewritable WARNING 1 This is not a general purpose backup application it 1s specific to the Compass Rich 2 Use PREFORMATED REWRITABLE CDs only the application does NOT support WORM or UNFORMATED rewritable CDs IMPORTANT NOTE This version does not create the Rich directory structure on the CD dynamically the Rich directory structure must exist on the CD see instruction below on how to do this Installation The application RichDataBakUp can be found in the directory d Rich exe DataBackUp of the richsvr computer of the Rich Barrack A shortcut should exist in the startup menu otherwise it should be created This will allow the application to automatically start anytime the PC is rebooted When it starts i
19. er the StopBackUP button is pressed you must wait till the ligth of the drive is off and then you can close the application 2 When the application finds an error on the destination CD instead of performing the eject task and eventually passing to the following cd copying of the files stops and an error message shows that is needed to perform the eject manually Drive Info The status of the drives is indicated with text and LEDs The status could be Full The disk is full and the LED will be RED No disk There is no rewritable disk in the drive LED will be RED Empty No data on the CD 1 e new CD LED will be GREEN In use The CD is partially full and is the current backup CD LED will be GREEN Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 34 Apendix C RCSL The Rich Control Scripting Language This script language is formed by commands that provide the possibility to send and receive data and program packets we have defined in 3 4 These commands permit the information exchange and the communication between the user and the Bora boards network General Syntax of the statements Statement lt command gt lt data gt lt source gt to lt destination gt lt command gt lt data gt Selects a command or a program DSP or FPGA program to be Sent lt source gt Specifies the drive the directory and the file containing the program In case of the command you can simply send the specific command puttin
20. g the destination lt destination gt Is used to describe the target The syntax is the following chamber number bora_ number If you need to communicate with a Dolina DSP only just put the Dolina DSP number without specifying the Bora s DSP number Statements The following statements are defined send comm This statement allows to send a command Send Gata This statement allows to send a DSP or FPGA programs End Is to indicate the end of the Script file Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 35 Example send comm PC Start 6 Sends a PC Start command to Che DSP number to start the Dolina DSP Loader A Script file could look like it is shown on the figure 1 the explanation of the commands is included Send comm PO Stare 0 This command implies the feedback message from the Dolina DSP number 0 Loader request Send data rich DSP programs progl stk 0 The application checks if the Dolina DSP sends back Loader Acknowledge If there was an error the application gives an error message Send comm Alive 0 The application checks for the I m Alive message Send comm PC Stare 1 Send data progl stk 1 Send comm Alive 1 End Figure 1 A script file programming the Dolina DSPs number 0 and 1 Command List This is a list of the commands with a short description for more details see 3 and 4 PC otdrL Starts the DSP loader Alive Checks if the DSP program is working pr
21. gure 3 shows the menu that controls the Wiener 6000 power supply Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 5 Chips in the system that require programming We ll describe what goes on at boot time in order to provide some meaning to the actions that will be describe in the remainder of this document The RICH Data Acquisition System attains its flexibility by the incorporation of several programmable chips Consequently we need to program them in order to make the system function at all The programmable Slements Of the system are e The eight DSPs in Dolina The 24 DSPs in each of the 8 chambers for a total of 192 DSS e Each BORA board has a Virtex Field Programmable Gate Array FPGA for a total of 192 FPGAs What happens at boot time When the system receives either a hardware or software reset all the DSPs of the system boot from the corresponding EEPROM At boot time the eight Dolina DSPs load and executes from the corresponding EPROMsS a routine that makes the DSP wait for a program to be loaded by the PC Hence Dolina becomes completely flexible but we need to provide DOLINA with eight programs for its Doers At boot time the 192 BORA DSPs load a program from theirs EEPROMs that allows each of them to read a switch header on the board where his ID has been set It also sets all parameters of the network such as the number of slots in the Time Division Multiplexed TDM network the number of bits in
22. he following chapters of this manual There is a scripting language implemented in Che COre Or The uRVCn Control application The RCSL RICH Control SGripting Language 1s a script language that follows the philosophy of Tcl Tk or Pearl and easily allows the creation of complex task using a set of atomic commands Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 8 This language is formed by statements Its syntax and complete set of instructions 1s explained in the appendix C The RCSL RICH Control Scripting Language 2 1 1 How to Start the application Double Click on the icon Rich control you have on the desktop of the richetrl computer Important Only one instance oF the Fick control application can be active at the time If there is another instance of this process running the MessageBox will appear indicating this error and this instance of the application will be closed 2 1 2 Configuration File The Rich control application performs several controls during its execution In order to coordinate the processes intercommunication the Rich Acquisition status and the physical drives where the data is saved there are five parameters to set and save inside the configuration file before the Rich Control execution starts If you open the config txt file h rich exe folder you will see a series of lines that look like Setdrive h SetSystemPath c winnt system32 SetRemotedrive J SetRunNumber 102 Runn
23. iles are found in the folder H rich script files When we program a chamber we understand that we are programming all 24 BORA DSPs and FPGAs of the chamber Execute the do file following the procedure described in Programming Dolina Look at the messages shown on the screen while the do file executes If you see an error message please phone us Checking if a BORA is alive We assume that at this point you have already programmed all needed BORAs If you want to check if a BORA has been properly programmed there 1S a command similar to Ping for a network that allows you to check if the DSP in the BORA is up and running The procedure is the following Using the Menu bar open Send gt Send comm The Command window opens up asking for the command to send to the system For the text box choose Are you Alive Click OK Then the Select Target to Command window opens up Leave all tick boxes un ticked Click the grey bar that represents the chamber where the BORA you want to check resides Click the OK button The Dialog window opens up showing the 24 BORAsS of the selected chamber Click a BORA grey bar Click OK and the window closes returning to Select target to command Click the OK button Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 17 If the DSP of the BORA is correctly programmed you should get Yes I m alive as an answer Checking if a chamber is alive This can be performed in two ways
24. ing N Important The configuration file was saved by the Rich Software developers so you can change one or more lines if it is absolutely necessary The meaning of each line is explained in the description of each specific topic Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 9 2 1 3 Log Files AL every Start of the Rich COncro application a Log File is generated where it is possible to find the command execution sequence and the error messages The Logs files are in the Rich Log files folder on the richetrl computer If you open that folder you will see a series of file names that look like DOU ZA eo 2d Al O72 OG First you find the date followed by an underscore character and then the time with extension log 2 2 Rich Control Server application Ihis process allows the control of the Rich Data Acquisition from the Control Room So it is possible to send some commands from the Control room in order to Start and Stop the acquisition for instance The client server model in network programming is used A client application has to make a request to be recognized by another computer in the network This second computer has a server application running that fulfills the client s request and returns the information In our case the Richctrl Computer in the Rich Barrack WLLL have The Itch Control server process socket server running continuously waiting listening for a command while the client process will
25. manually edit it using any standard word processor such as Wordpad or Notepad etc c The third method allows creating a threshold file using the calibration file of a BORA The thresholds are uniformly set for each channel of the BORA using the following operation Ti Pi z Oi Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 22 Thresholds Figure 9 shows the Threshold window used for the three different methods to set the thresholds for one BORA Where Ti Pi oi are the threshold pedestal and noise standard deviation of the channel number 1 of the BORA Z instead is an arbitrary constant chosen by the operator For all three methods you open first then using the mouse you Thresholds Set Thresholds The Thresholds windows open up as shown in figure 9 Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 23 Also for the three methods we have to choose the target BORA by filling in Chamber and BORA text boxes For method a we fill the text box Threshold with a number iWetween O10234 We then click che OK Dutton and the thresholds are sent to the target BORA For method b we click the Select ASCII file We select from the menu a Tab separated ASCII file We then click the OK button and the thresholds are sent to the target BORA Figure 10 shows a portion of such an ASCII file The file can be edited by hand using any text processor The first column is the channel number and the second the threshold
26. nd Noise of all pixels of one BORA board Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 20 Type the number of samples the number that determines the statistics of the measurement in the text box Number of Samples powers of 2 between 4 and 2048 Type the chamber number in decimal in the text box Chamber Type the BORA number in decimal in the text box Bora Tick the Noise Analysis box Tick the Application Read Dolitest Enable box Don t tick any other box Click Send You will see an Error window opening up Look at the file in the window since the result of the measurement is in that file so write the name and path of the file The results pedestals and noise are in that file After you have written down the name and path of the file click OK The folders where the resulting files with pedestals and noise are written are named according to the following convention Remember that there are 192 BORAS in the system In chamber 0 BORAS are numbered from 0 to 23 The results are written by the application in the folder H rich data calibration bora where bora 0 to 23 For the chambers 1 7 BORAS are still numbered from 0 to 23 within the chamber but to avoid writing over the previous files the folders are called H rich data calibration chamber 24 bora Where chamber 0 to 7 and bora 0 to 23 For example if you measured pedestals and noise of the BORA board number 3 of chamber 4 the
27. on we ll describe the steps to follow to setup the system in order to measure pedestals and standard deviation While inside Rich Control do the following z Rich Control olx File View Window Thresholds Send Bun Options Help D RUNNING NOT RUNNING Chamberl_Boral_3 do Chamber do 3 Chamber _Boral0_21 do 9 Chamberx_Boraty do 3 Chamber do a Channeltestdo a Chamberl_Bora_1 do E Chambers Borad_1 do EfDolina_start do 3 Chamberl_Boral do 3 Chamber3 do a Dolina_start_O do 3 Chamberl_BoraQ_1 do 3 Chamberd do a Dolina_start_1 do 3 Chamberl do 3 Chamber5 do 3 Dolina_start_2 do 3 Chamberl_BoraQ_1 do 3 Chamber6 do a Dolina_start_3 do File name Dolina_start do Files of type Cancel Ready NUM ve Figure 4 shows the Rich Control window with the Open Do file menu Programming DOLINA The first step is to program Dolina s DSPs The DSP programs are loaded executing a script file that Simplifies all the procedure We need to find the do file to send This is performed using the pull down menu send see figure a Send gt Run Script file The open file window opens up as shown in figure 4 Type into the file name text window H rich script_files dolina_start do Then click on the OK button or press enter on the keyboard The same action can be activated by simply logging into H rich script files and double clicking in the name of the file Another option that produces the s
28. only one BORA of the system Assume that X 0 1 2 7 is the Chamber number and that Y O 1 23 1s the number of the BORA within the chamber Then the do file to use is called ScX Y do If you open one of these do files you will see a series of commands that look like Send comm Reset X Y Send comm PC Start X Y Send data rich dsp programs bora fpga vl 128 stk X Y s Send data rich bit stream files fpga 5 rbt X Y Send comm Reset X Y Send comm PC Start X Y Send data rich dsp programs bora_ spill stk X Y Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 19 4 Operating the System Measuring Pedestals and Noise We assume that the BORAs to be measured and the correspondent DSPs of Dolina have already been correctly programmed We can measure Pedestals and noise in only one BORA through commands from the Rich Control menu or in many BORAS by running specific script files 1 Only one BORA Open using the pulldown Menu of Rich Control Send gt Channel Test The window Channel Test opens as shown in figure 8 Rich Control O gt File Miew Window Thresholds Send Bun Options Help L RUNNING NOT RUNNING Channel Test D A Pulse 0 255 Bora Trigger Delay 0 23 0 40 an M Noise Analisis Number of Samples 2 4 8 2048 Application Read Dolitest Enable Save Raw Data Cancel Figure 8 shows the Channel Test window that controls the measurement of Pedestals a
29. operly Reset Sends a software reset to the DSP Channel Test This command has a special format explained below Start of Run Starts data acquisition SLOP Of Run Stops data acquisition Caten sync This command is sent through the Boras DSP s network in order to synchronize the Rich and the Catches Reser FPPGA GADS Sends a reset to the gassiplexes of the FPGA Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 36 Channel Test Command Command format break space Separates parameters Send comm Channel test D A pulse Trigger Delay Samples Op Type Data Format App Dolitest Destination Where All the numbers below are decimal D A pulse the amplitude of the stimulus pulse Can take the value from 0 up to 255 Trigger Delay can take the value from 0 up to 2047 Samples can take the value power of 2 from 2 up to 2048 Op Type defines DAQ mode O Noise 1 Calibration Data Format Gerines tne Torma OF Lhe incoming Gata O Average and Sigma 1l Raw data Debugging Option Must be set to 0 App Dolitest Must be set to 0 Debugging option Destination chamber bora identification number using the way described before in the general syntax description Examples Send Comm Channel test 0 0 o2 w 1 0 3 11 Here we read 32 samples from chamber 3 bora 11 acquiring noise Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 37 Send comm Send comm Send comm Send comm Send comm Send comm
30. rol File Miew Window Thresholds Send Run Options Help O RUMMIMG NOT RUNNING Select target to Command Number of chamber Cancel Chamber l Talk with Dolina Selecta complete Chamber Select Manual Seleccion Ready NUM 2 Figure 6 shows the select target to Command menu Tick talk to Dolina leave all other tick boxes un ticked Click one grey bar the one that represents the chamber that you want to check Click the OK button Tf the corresponding Dolina DSP is correctly programmed you should get Yes I m alive as an answer Reprogramming a DSP in DOLINA If by any chance you get an error from the DSP queried there are two procedures you can use a Using dolina start do you reset and reprogram all eight DSPs all over again b Using one of the eight do files that reset and reprogram only one of the eight DSPs They are called Dolina Start x do where x O 1 2 7 Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 16 Programming the FPGA and DSP in the BORAs At this point we assume that you have already correctly programmed the DSPs Chamber controllers in Dolina We now need to program the FPGA in each BORA and load in the DSP the program to execute the FPGA programming procedure in the corresponding BORA DSP To program the FPGAs and DSPs of the BORAS there are ready made do files called chamberX do where X 0 1 2 is the number of the chamber to be programmed These f
31. s already ON The optoisolator power supply For the time being the optoisolator power supply 1s contained in a blue box placed close to the optoisolator and the RICH Check that ie 19 ON a UEP6000 Measurement 1114 My Computer File Options Configuration Help Software Version UEP6000 2 02 Network CAN1 02 Address 1 General Call 127 Speed Code 1 H Power Supply ID Channel Network Neighborhood eg Recycle Bin Shortcut to Uep6000 exe Calibration U Monitor Calibration Il Monitor Modul Current A Modul Current Limit A Modul O P DAC Modul Unom DAC min Yoltage Y max Yoltage max Current A Current limit A OVP DAC Unom DAC Unom adjustment max Temperature BIN Temperature PS Temperature Yoltage Current A Status POWER ON AC OK TRIP OFF ENABLED Operating Time 0100079 U0 759 16419 100 00 100 00 255 114 3 50 3 89 80 00 40 00 255 114 129 127 35 3 72 18 75 OK U3 759 16440 100 00 100 00 255 137 3 78 4 59 100 00 48 00 255 137 128 127 OK 4 30 22 31 OK U4 758 16751 100 00 100 00 255 114 3 50 3 89 60 00 40 00 255 114 131 127 OK 3 71 15 54 OK 00 6f b8 28600 minutes U7 759 16106 100 00 100 00 255 203 5 50 6 30 100 00 80 00 255 203 128 127 OK 6 02 56 93 OK TRACE 00 00 08 B3 00000000 00400000 40000012 PA Start UEPGOOO Measurem M Micrografx Picture Publisher HIS 1255 Fi
32. se select Run gt Start of Run The Commands window opens as shown in figure 12 This command will be automatically sent to the whole RICH Now we are ready to accept triggers and acquire data After Start_of Run is issued you will see the red button RUNNING highlighted c Stopping data taking Stop the RUN Stopping data taking is very simple Execute the same steps as described for the Start_of Run but choosing Stop the run command instead of Start _ of Run After Stop the RUN is issued you will see the green button NOT RUNNING highlighted Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 28 Rich Control File view Window Thresholds Send EQ Options Help stop the Run Figure 12 shows the command window opened in order to give a start of run command to the Rich While the system is taking data between a Start_of Run and Stop the run many files are sent from the BORAs to the NT server For Gach Durst and as event 1 the PC receives an engineering frame for each BORA This file is written in the subdirectory H rich data engineering frames chamber 24 bora eng For each particle burst and as event 3 the PC receives the event data This file one for each BORA is written in the subdirectory H rich data events chamber 24 bora evt All messages are written down ina log file in H rich log files log where the represents the date In case of any problem we
33. t creates an icon in the system tray It stays there for as long as the PC is ON and works in the background Clicking on the minimize or the cancel buttons as shown below minimizes the application to the system tray K O Usage The CD must be preformatted this can be bought already formatted or can be formatted on the PC It is highly recommended to buy the preformatted CDs as it takes a long time to format one on the PC Copy the Rich directory in the application directory Rich exe DataBackUp to the new CD The application is shown below RichDataBakUp iil x Stop BackUp E xi N ow Sleeping Drives Info Drive Status a No Disk d Empty Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 32 Configuration file config ini When it starts running it automatically backup all the files in the specified directories which it loads from the config ini file Hence the first thing to do is setup the config ini file A sample can be found in the application directory It must reside in the same directory as the application Modify this for your specific needs The configuration file can be modified with any editor The followings must be specified in the file 1 The section sredirs specifies the source directories These must be the full path of the directories to be backed up ie sredirs H Rich data Engineering frames H Rich data Events 2 The second part dstndrives means the destination drives Thes
34. tops showing the Debugger s Menu in the screen in front of you To make it go forward press control D It will then finish booting Rich people will provide Username and Password Click the icon Rich Control the Rich Control application that is placed in the Desktop The Rich Control window opens up Figure 2 shows the Rich Control window BS Rich Control Bun a rons A send_programs Channel Test sync_catchs Options Help o Edit Scripttile Bun Script file Figure 2 shows the Rich Control window Rich Control Applications User Manual 7 18 2003 4 The BORA s power supply Note At the present moment what follows hold for the Chamber 0 For the other chambers see Appendix A Rich Low Voltage Power Supply LOVE The only Wiener power supply used by the BORA boards is controlled through the RS 232 port of a PC Long on the INFN s PC 6227 If you have an account use it otherwise answer Cancel to the request for a Username and Password This latter choice will allow you to control the Wiener but without access to the network On the Desktop click the icon Power Supply Figure 3 shows the UEP6000 control window Before turning on the Wiener 6000 check that the voltages are set with the values on the screen To turn on the power supply click the line Power OFF the line should change to Power ON Obviously if at startup the screen line already says Power ON it means that the Wiener 6000 wa
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