DAQ and Controls for GEN01
Presented December 8, 2000, Stephen A. Wood
- Recent DAQ Changes - 1
- ``3rd arm'' racks in electronics room
- Fastbus Crate
- VME Crate
- ``3rd arm'' electronics
- SOS run in middle of GeN Madey
- New Trigger Supervisor with external ``scheduled trigger'' input
- ``Scheduled Trigger'' always accepted
- Can be programmed as sync point
- Ideal for triggering the scaler readout during helicity change
- Disk Space
- Fileserver for EPICS/CODA/cdaq account
- ~300GB of data disk space
- Local scratch space
- Recent DAQ Changes - 2
- New computers
- cdaqs3 - Enterprise 220R dual 450MhZ
- 2 Linux boxes
- Monitor upgrades
- etcp: DAQ aware silo copy program
- DAQ Jobs (things that need to be done)
- DAQ Trigger
- 8LM programming (triggers)
- Retiming Gates/Starts
- Helicity Gating/Recording
- Scaler oversampling triggers
- Event time stamp
- Coordination of above with software
- DAQ Software
- Fastbus readout list
- Scaler readout lists (with oversampling support)
- Event time stamp
- CODA Pause button? (implementation and implications)
- Other Software
- End of run reports in hclog (Using Calvin Howell scaler server)
- Scaler Tsar
- Recent Controls Changes
- HMS CAEN HV in Counting House
- Additional CAEN supplies and HV Cables
- Second floor of Counting House
- LeCroy HV units not needed?
- epics.dictionary: Control file that drives EPICS
logging during DAQ runs
- Always-on EPICS logger available. Archived data can be viewed
via a Web or
X-window interface.
- LAT terminal servers replaced by new terminal servers
- Reliable human or computer communication with RS232 devices in Hall
- Controls Jobs (things that need to be done)
- Setup/Maintain CAEN HV map files
- Define logging needs and setup
- Define/Restore EPICS/CODA linkages to Polarized Target controls