SRS DAQ

GEM-SRS-CODA Some tidbits

Computer info: hostname is hallavme9 and user-name is coda (For password, contact Dipangkar, Krishna or Alex)

CODA output and how to look at it

The output from the single ROC (# 10) mode of CODA run is saved in /home/coda/SRScoda/data

The output from the multi-ROC (GEM ROC # is 7) is in another computer (ask Alex about it).

To look at the single ROC GEM data:

• Go to /home/coda/KrishnaStuff/AdaqBackUp/Krishna/SRS/RdSRSonlyOp
• Run codadump4Hist to make a plot of each event (compile the program as make codadum4Hist' if you need to). This program will make plots SRS data from each event (one plot from each APV data). If there is GEM signal in the event, the plots will look somewhat like these ones.
  • Run it as follows: ./codadump4Hist 1 ~/SRScoda/data/test_98.dat 24, where the arguments are as follows:

General Resources and Setup Instructions

• APV
  • APV User's Guide
  • APV25 vs DREAM by Jixie: DREAM study, RTPC12 Simulation (2014), RTPC12 Sim (2015) (Spectator Tagging Workshop, ODU)
• FEC & ADC
  • Connection, Programming & Testing FEC & ADC
  • FEC/ADC Firmware Overview
    • FEC Firmware Upgrade Tutorial htm, pdf, FEC-firmware upgrade doc2, (Upgrade the firmware of the three FPGAs residing on the VME FEC-CCS boards)
• SRS Slow Control:
  • Detailed User's Guide to Slow Control (pdf), HTML document (See page 21 of Overview of DATE Setup and Troubleshooting for an example (start0.txt) of how the slow-control-format is done. Also refer to this and this sections of the Slow Control manual.).
    • Slow Control for SRS (Preliminary Information): SCSprelim.pdf
  • DATE for SRS: DATE-GettingStarted.pdf
• SRS
  • Quick Overview, What is SRS (short intro)
  • Short User Guide (htm)
  • SRS_SC_Registers_v02_copy.pdf
  • SRS Data Format: pdf, htm
  • SRS JLab Update (by Jessie, Mitra, Alex)
• SRS, DATE, AMORE, MOOD etc:
  • Thesis of Sang Un Ahn (or here or here)
• CODA:
  • New JLab Main Site, Old Site
    • Reading CODA data (xcefdump, hexdump, od etc)
  • Other notes (installation, data format etc):
    • Brian Moffit's webpage on Database Setup
    • Hall-A related pages: From Robert Michaels, Hall A wiki on CODA2.6, Hall-A guide 1 (Guide to Hall A Data Taking), Guide 2 (Running CODA on Spectrometers DAQ Systems), Raw Data Structure & Decoding
  • CODA (main Jlab wiki), DAQ & CODA @ TUNL
  • CODA @ W & M
• DATE:
  • DATE Documentation from COMPASS
  • How to install, configure and run DATE software
  • Overview of DATE Setup and Troubleshooting
  • Detailed User's Guide to DATE Software
  • The new frontier of the DATA acquisition using 1 and 10 Gb/s Ethernet links Filippo Costa on behalf of the ALICE DAQ group
  • DATE-courses (PPTs) from MIT site. (Also checkout the different source directories & other related materials in the Parent Directory)
• AMORE:
  • Setup Guide for DATE/Amore Environment
  • AMORE Tutorial Guide by Kondo
  • AMORE Beam Test Documentation from FIT
  • Brief overview of AMORE in context of ALICE Slicon Pixel Detector
  • CERN Twiki on AMORE & ..

User Notes

• Jessie Twigger/SULI Student (26 May 2014 - 1 Aug 2014)
• Krishna Adhikari, MSU Postdoc

Other related materials

• Jessie's Poster
• JLab SRS Update by Jessie Twigger, Mitra Shabestari, Alexandre Camsonne
• Scalable Detector Control (SDC)

Some DAQ related generic materials

• DAQ
  • DAQ (wikipedia)
• NIM, CAMAC, FASTBUS, VME:
  • FNAL Electronics Equipment Pool Catalog
    • Some invisible links - FASTBUS directory, Introduction to FASTBUS (Similar links to NIM, CAMAC and VME related pages are visible at and available through above catalog.)
  • NIM vs TTL, Discriminators & AND gates, Data Acquisition, Spark Chamber
• Digital Electronics:
  • Basics of Logic Design, Gates & Triggers Explained
  • Register Transfer Systems
  • Beginner's guide to Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• Various Digital Instruments
  • Phillips: download area, 706 Leading Edge Discriminator
• Triggers related:
  • Tips and Techniques in Data Acquisition Triggering - NI-DAQmx

Contacts

Kondo Gnanvo, Research Scientist (UVa). Ph.D., 2001, ENST de Bretagne & Universite de Bretagne, Occidentale, France

kg6cq@Virginia.EDU or kgnanvo At virginia.edu 924-6796 151 JBL Office

Martin Purschke: Data Acquisition Coordinator of PHOENIX experiment @ BNL