RDB Archiver based on CS Studio Detailed Table of Content Introduction (from http://cs studio.sourceforge.net/docbook/archive.png) The CS Studio RDB Archiv...
Detector Control System (a.k.a Slow Control) !! mainly outdated information, has to be updated !! Background Informations The Detector Control System of the H...
__ Introduction Issue of this project is to get a docker based EPICS system with: * EPICS IOC connecting to an DT1470ET device * CAENs DT/N147x family ...
HADES I/O Box Introduction Based upon the HadCon2 multi I/O board, the DreamPlug Plug Computer, and the 1 wire based ADC board OwAdc a small, slim, multi ana...
DCS CPUs and corresponding services Description in Repository: * https://git.gsi.de/HADES/DCS/EPICS/Common/IOC/hades/blob/production/hadesApp/Db/desc_ioc.subst...
IOC for HADES SCS running on Linux Introduction HADES IOC There is an EPICS IOC running under Linux on machine hadesdaq02. Right now, it services * the HV f...
VxWorks boot procedure (hadsc1 and e7had2) The manual boot procedure of the VxWorks is described here (very old manual) The important part of the manual: Before ...
VxWorks VME IOCs for HADES Introduction e7had2 and hadsc1 are the remaining VxWorks OS based EPICS IOCs. This is a collection of informations about this topic. ...
Slow Control Wish and ToDo List Introduction Bugzilla http://jspc22.x matter.uni frankfurt.de/rt * Component: EPICS Todo Wish List Main.PeterZumbruc...
LVL1 Trigger Definitions * All information about LVL1 triggers will be sent in a packet using TrbNet and the optical network. * A fast trigger strobe for ...
The Hades Data Aquisition and Slow Control System Welcome to the DaqSlowControl web used by .HadesDaqSlowControlGroup. Please use this tool frequently and add/cha...
Channel Archiver Introduction The channel archiver is usually running on lxg0434 visible to the GSI LAN Manuals * Channel Archiver Manual * online: h...
When you have DAQ problems, please follow this procedure Checks: 1 Are still events written to tape? 1 Is one crate turned off? (use slow control window to...
Here we collect documentation for the Hades DAQ. Global DAQ issues 1 GeneralDaqOperation 1 DaqCheckList ( things which should be checked before a beamtime)...
List of Concurrent VME CPUs and their MAC addresses DNS names are always: hadcXX, where XX is the number down in the table. No location means: At GSI on Michaels ...
DaqSlowControl Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the DaqSlowControl web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., ...
How to use boards with etrax mcm This boards are accessable at GSI under etrax201 etrax248. How to login Only via telnet: telnet etrax2xx, where xx=01 48 There ...
__ * database_owner_ship provided: 1. Download postgres_partitioning.txt from cs studio@github 1. Since the table sample is already created, optional...
__ Introduction On Request of the HADES MDC group a local EPICS based watchdog unit is built to 1 set and get via network as EPICS client the values of an ext...
Operator Interfaces Introduction Introduction Operator Interfaces are the EPICS clients which connect to the available process variables and show them in a ...
The KISS runcontrol RunControlSoundServer Users Guide 1 http://www hades.gsi.de/~hadaq/doc/aug04/daqop.html Current Documentation for the DAQ operator ...
HADES Network Configuration in Counting House Network Switches After a discussion with Mathias Mnch today (2006 05 18) we can assume the following: * The mai...
__ Introduction The objective is to configure a network switch, D Link DGS 1510 28 L3 switch with 24 RJ45 4 SFP ports to provide 3 independent access blocks of...
__ 1. Download postgres_schema.txt from cs studio@github 1. Since GSI already created the database, skip DROP DATABASE, CREATE DATABASE 1. add client...
__ Introduction Code section to be included directly in front of a section to be hidden at beginning. Can be included via %INCLUDE{"ToolsHiddenSection" section="...
__ 1. Expect postgres_schema.txt 1. Extract GRANT commands and for each user add those GRANTs 1. add client_encoding and "SEARCH PATH" in front 1. cal...
This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this DaqSlowControl web. This is a convenient service, so you do not h...
* This list is now located on the TRB3 webpage. Please edit it there!* Serial Numbercurrent LocationFlash with 0RErrors, Bugs, Special Features 1 Frankfurt X p...
Summary Table: new boards (assembled in 2011) * Tested in July 2014 by C.Wendisch Kathrin Bismark (Sommerstudent) * calibration files md14...hld (if avail...
Eventbuilder status in 2014 here some description of the actual setup before beamtimes Jul14 and Aug14 Eventbuilder servers Hardware lxhadesdaq Central server ...
GeneralInformation general information about event builder machines, services running on those machines and so on. EventBuilderDevelopment information and docum...
TRB Publication List Here we should collect all available presentations/talks/papers Please also put all information about location and date. 2006 * TRBv2_Sc...
Some electronics, DAQ and Detector related conferences we might want to have some contributions at. Date Description Deadline 23.06.13 27.06.13 Anim...
__ Introduction Systems \" edit)"}% Dreamplug/HadCon2 Combinations * defined in startupProcedures and matched by the IOC code * FTDI ID via: $ sbin/...
How to set up parallel operation of TDK Lambda power supplies Only power supplies of the same model ( e.g 8V 150A or 50V 30A ) can be connected to increase the ...
Eventbuilder and TRBnet plugin for DABC Introduction The future application for trbnet hardware for FAIR detector test beams (e.g. CBM, PANDA, R3B) requires to i...
Eventbuilder on Dreamplug Introduction This page collects experiences with hadaq eventbuilder software installed on dreamplug mini pcs System description here o...
List of Boards This should be a complete list of all used boards in the HADES DAQ context. For the running system, such a list is needed to assign the network add...
The DAQ Network Concept Overview $ NewTriggerBusConcept : The concept for a new trigger bus DAQ Network Modules $ NewTriggerBusCom : The hadcom module ...
Interface between Etrax and FPGA on TRB ("TrbNet edition") Interface The interface between Etrax and FPGA on the TRB2 uses 2 data ports (Port B and C) of the Etr...
DAQ Upgrade Installation of TRB, AddOn, Network... Trigger Distribution * RPC: One PECL LVDS converter on each sector * Shower: Same distributor board a...
SlowControlWishListToDoIntro Introduction This collection is intended to list open wishes and ToDos as a reminder and overview. * RECOMMENDED: Bugzilla at ...
Where to find QA check list file Here: * for August 2011: /u/hades qa/Desktop/QA Check List Aug11/QA_check_list_Au_Au_aug2011.pdf (see also attachement) Whe...
Status of eventbuilder for beamtime 2012 Here documentation of setup and changes Eventbuilder machines Hardware lxhadesdaq central machine lxhadeb01 Previous ...
When restart of the DAQ and reprogramming of the FPGAs does not help First try to login to etraxpXXX Check if the home directory (ls /home/hadaq/) on the Etrax is...
TRB (TDC Readout Board for RPC and other tasks) Direct Link to TRBv3 New (Jan. 2011) development for TDC applications TDCReadoutBoardV3 Direct Link to TRBv2 T...
ICINGA General setup Icinga is a system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and w...
Network Structure Our Foundry 10Gbit switch is "divided" into two VLANs: GSI VLAN and our private HADES VLAN. All the TRBs, switches and other network devices in ...
Nagios DEPRECATED! NOTE: This page is deprecated, since 2011 we use icinga for monitoring See new status on page IcingaMonitor . Main.JoernAdamczewski 09 Feb...
Event Builder Development Short Intro The aim of the Event Builder (EB) is to receive subevents from subsystems and to build a complete event out of them. EB con...
General DAQ All what is written below should be done on hadesdaq computer. Start acquisition Button "Blue_Arrow_Down" "Fast DAQ start". After a successfull ctu ...
Up to date information about all ongoing and planned work Please update this list regularly! this will help all of us to keep a better overview. Logbook * 12 ...
Weekly MDC Readout Upgrade Meeting The protocol of the meetings: MdcReadoutupgrademeeting Readout via OEP and MDC Optical AddOn MDC OEP testing, mounting, com...
Unpacking, hld unpack_hld.pl The script unpacks the hld file (taking into account big/little endian byte ordering) and stores the output in the array. User can u...
All tables can be edited directly. Use the "Edit table" button underneath each table! Logs for all tests Summary Table Summary table of all tests done Plane ...
Here a list of all taken hld files should be maintained. All files are to be recorded in: hadaq@lxhadeb01:/data01/data MDC I Sector 0 MDC I Sector 1 MDC I Sec...
test of MDC II performed day: 29.03.2011 We have collected only calibration events, by setting: trigger type 9 on and pulser 10Hz. Threshold has been set to 40 ...
Here a list of all taken hld files should be maintained. All files are to be recorded in: hadaq@lxhadeb01:/data01/data MDC III Sector 0 MDC III Sector 1 MDC I...
Here a list of all taken hld files should be maintained. All files are to be recorded in: hadaq@lxhadeb01:/data01/data MDC IV Sector 0 MDC IV Sector 1 MDC IV ...
The plot shows the bit distribution (11 bits of the dataword) vs MB. If there is a hot spot of a read stripe (like in this example), it means that a MB deliver al...
Here it follows a list of steps which have to be performed in order to poof the electronics on the MDC: 1) Acquire a file (.hld) and make its analysis as describe...
Olga and Vladimir's list: noisy and inactive channels by 317 day (B0) and 319 day (B1) from Nov'10 data. NOISY: =============== S M Mb Ch Excess =========...
1) Within February 2011: Test the FEE on P3S2 and P4S2 (Chambers which are on the floor of the cave (03.02.2011). Next week, on Monday (06.02) Torsten will prep...
Check if each MBO deliver the right amount of data and if there are TDCs (channel) missing. * calibration: * calibration slope: The calibration slope...
Check that for each sectors the plots tdcvsmb shows data and the hardware reacts to the change in thresholds. You find this plots in the TBrowser monitorDir ...
How to check data read out from OEP's 1. Login to lxhadesdaq Use vncviewer / krdc to connect to the running vnc session on lxhadesdaq. With vncviewer use vncview...
Table of contents: hadeb05 Due to JUMBO frames hadeb05 can stop receiving DHCP discovers from TRBs. Solution: * ifconfig eth0 down * modprobe r sk98lin;...
Table of contents: Tests with 90 subsystems: Test 1 with 90 subsystems (no writing to hard disk, no rfio) The test system: TOF 0, TOF 1, TOF 2, TOF 4 VME CPUs ...
HADES Network Tests Network related commands Driver related * Get network card info: hwinfo netcard * List loaded modules: lsmod * List all PCI buses ...
A short version of the DAQ manual. This is a working version of the document, if you see some changes in the startup procedure feel free to update this page. To s...
Media Interfaces For every kind of network medium we need an dedicated media interface. For example there is an lvds interface (200MBit), an optical link interfac...
CTS and Trigger Logic addresses To all register when accessing vi trbnet add offset A0 CTS Address Bit range Meaning 91 15 downto 0 lvl1 trigger number...
Open Tasks Tasks currently on our agenda: * Remove obsolete cables still a topic ; ) (Everybody who is familiar with the old setup) * Install temperature...
RICH readout structure General description of the system RICH modules Module descriptions APV25S1 information Details on APV25S1 Manual Main.MichaelBoehmer ...
HLD Files Here a list of all taken hld files should be maintained. Filenames should be given without extension. All files are to be recorded in a new subdirectory...
HLD Files Here a list of all taken hld files should be maintained. Filenames should be given without extension. All files are to be recorded in a new subdirectory...
HLD Files Here a list of all taken hld files should be maintained. Filenames should be given without extension. All files are to be recorded in a new subdirectory...
HLD Files Here a list of all taken hld files should be maintained. Filenames should be given without extension. All files are to be recorded in a new subdirectory...
Run Control of Multiple Event Builders Introduction The aim of the Run Control of the Event Builders is to have a central control and monitoring system for all E...
All tables can be edited directly. Use the "Edit table" button underneath each table! Logs for all tests Here are some tables to collect all necessary data for a...
Important things that are necesarry for beamtime 1 Timing issues (initialization phase of MBO) 1 Rotating masks for calibration 1 Trigger interface ( ...
CVS Basics Here are some most often used CVS commands. After you got your local copy of a module, all the CVS commands related to the module you should do insi...
Errors found in the MDC Optical AddOn1 design 1 The silk screen (text on the PCB) of the LEDs are not corresponding to the FOT number. So, e.g. FOT13 has a LED...
Main.BorislavMilanovic 31 Jul 2009 Signals I would like to have a complete summary, of what signals need to be monitored at the moment. It is highly necessary, a...
Main.BorislavMilanovic 27 Jul 2009 TRBnet Monitoring System On this page, the new monitoring facility for the TrbNet will be presented. Any user may feel free to...
TRBNet Addresses Here are some suggestions for TrbNet Addresses in the final detector setup. They were choosen based on the following premises: * The addresses...
General information A hub is, like in any other network, a logical unit that merges the data coming in on different lines and sends it out on every other line. ...
MDC Upgrade the final phase Meetings The first meeting of this working period will take place on Monday, 4.1.2010 at 10 a.m. in the upper counting house. Plan...
Up to date information about all ongoing and planned work Please update this list regularly! I think this will help all of us to keep a better overview of the who...
Documentation and Logs for Software Development for HADES Daq and Slow Control $ LvmeForConcurrent: Porting the LVME library to Concurrent VME CPU $ HowtoAd...
Howto build a Hadaq test system More or less, enter the following commands. Adjust the path names to your needs. At the top of semaphore.c is a union inside #ifde...
Checklist of things to be checked before data taking in a beamtime Print this page and fill out gaps and give it to the technical coordinator Date: issue d...
Main.RadekTrebacz 23 Oct 2006 Assembler code: I/O test The original file with headers is in hadaq@hadeb05:~/soft/devboard fs_32v2/os/linux 2.6/arch/cris/arch v3...
Agenda for the DAQ Electronics Integration Meeting data format for the different subsystems * news since the Sesimbra meeting (Michael B., Attilio, Marcin?, M...
Executive Summary: The DAQ Upgrade projects are on their way TRBv2 PCB layout finished / order on the way MDC Add On: schematics finished and discussed E...
Minutes of TRB Meeting 2005 05 31 Attendees: Wolfgang Koenig, Marcin Kajetanowicz, Ingo Frhlich, Michael Traxler, Piotr Salabura, Jerzy Pietraszko Topics: Sta...
How to generate jam and tcl files In view of growing number of TRBs the make.pl perl script was made to produce jam files with TDC settings and channels enabled/d...
Main.ChristophSchrader 20 Mar 2007 Overview * MAPS_BLOCK_SCHEMA.pdf: The illustration shows a block diagram of the typical configuration for the MAPS readout de...
Giacomo, please put in here all the info you have about your Temp Sense project. Main.MichaelTraxler 19 Oct 2006 Here you will find the informations about the...
Main.GrzegorzKorcyl 06 May 2009 Overview: Optical hub is an TRBv2 addon board which extends the main board with routing and communication features. The power of ...
TOF AddOn2 Manual TOF FEE 128 channel TRB AddOn module for HADES, original document: TRB TOF AddOn.pdf. The design of TOF FEE 128 channel Time over Threshold (ToT...
List of outdated pages This entry will service as harbour for all outdated and obsolete topics in the DaqSlowControl Web. Contents Main.JanMichel 12 Dec 2009...
DAQ Upgrade This document gives an overview of why and how we want to upgrade our HADES DAQ/Trigger System. The upgrade at a glance : ) . Motivation for an Upgr...
Overview The main idea of the API (application process interface) is that the user should be able to just read and write data and should not take care about the f...
Howto implement to OLD_TO_NEW converter The OLD_TO_NEW converter has the old trigger bus as an input, configured in "DTU mode". On the DaqNetwork it has to emulat...
New Trigger Bus Media General IO interface To make the DaqNetwork independent from any media, a standard IO interface is proposed. The interface follows the pri...
Overview The "normal" TrbNetEndPoint consists of up to 16 TrbNetIOBUF. Special endpoints for dedicated reasons have only a subset of TrbNetIOBUF in order to keep ...
Overview $ trbnet_full_endpoint.pdf : The hades_full_endpoint entity is the central part to connect to the network. Overview Short description of the ports ...
Connector A (JADDON1) With these connectors (JADDON1 and JADDON2) the Add on board communicates with the TRBv2 board: it receives trigger information and basicall...
HADES Trigger Distribution System DTU/CTU Manual from Eric * DTU_technical_manual.pdf: DTU / CTU manual * DTU_schematics.pdf: Schematics of DTU CTU/DTU i...
Installation and Testing of new MDC DAQ components * OEPBasicTests Testing OEPs and first time programming in Lab * InformationForOEPMounting Bookkeepin...
Matching Unit issues * MatchingUnitAlgorithm (gives some prosa description of the MU algorithm, real docu is still the code trigger.c ) * MatchingUnitSetti...
Info about the Linux VME CPUs * LinuxVMECPUInstallation * List of Concurrent VME CPUs and their MAC addresses * AcromagModule Technical Documents * S...
Level 1 trigger processing by VULOM3 board The old triggerbox has now been replaced by an FPGA module and can be remotely controlled by EPICS. Here is provided so...
New Trigger unit based on the universal logic module VULOM3 New Trigger unit based on the universal logic module (Jan Hofmann, GSI) Author: Wolfgang Koenig (load...
This is the curent TriggerHub cabling: We definitely need both hub symmetrical, since the UI uses the same template for both Main.MathiasMuench 29 Jan 2005 ...
Table of contents: The following programs are used to connect to a Hades database: * runinfo2ora.pl * tcl_to_ora runinfo2ora.pl Intro To simplify the pro...
DTU in VHDL from Tiago For debugging of the DTU check the DtuDebugRegisters page. RPC DTU debug registers LVL1 DTU_DEBUG_11 DTU_DEBUG_12 DTU_DEBUG_13 = x"00...
Michael Bhmer realized that the DTU/CTU Lattice Desgin, which handles the VME bus, was not working correctly, which only occured when using the Concurrent VME CPU...
VNC connection to hadesdaq and the problems For some unknown reasons the vnc connection (just the authentification) to hadesdaq is not working reliably. The follo...
This text is stolen from Michael Bhmer: http://www hades.gsi.de/daq/rc99/richel_page.html A summary of the HADES trigger codes On this page you can find a summar...
Table of contents: What we have to do.... 1 Ask for a public Wiki group (Hadespub ???) where we can store info for outside people. Nearly all hades pages are...
"Nice" version of DAQ System: List of files needed for starting DAQ on TRB: You have to log into the board and program FPGA: /home/hadaq/FPGA_jam_stapl.sh Log ...
1 RichAdjustThresholds 1 RichHitsObservation 1 Picture of crates and the corresponding RCs and PRCs * boehmer_diplom.pdf: Diploma Thesis of Michael Bhm...
Emergency Event Building Procedure for Jan05 * Switch to workspace "evtb". * There should be two terminal windows on host "lxhadesdaq", directory "/home/had...
MT: again after reboot of r2f 35: Jan 28 19:09:45 r2f 35 ./daq_rdotrig 129 : HwTip on 18000000 not found Jan 28 19:09:45 r2f 35 ./daq_rdotrig 129 : Construction o...
* spi_trbv2 diagram: Programming thresholds for RPC is slow, because the function read32_from_FPGA/write32_to_FPGA has to communicate with FPGA bit by bit. ...
spi_trbv2 The application to set the thresholds for TOF RPC from TRB. It needs the special file with configuration of thresholds(configFile). How To: Log in t...
To make TRB working: flashTool.tar: Tool to flash the image to TRB Content of README file: To flash this image: 1. set SW1 switch on the board to A, 2. ty...
List of Features and special codes for TRB * Using jam to program FPGAs * Programming the Flash on TRB * SPI to configure TDCs for TOF and RPC * Sourc...
To program FPGA via jam you should: 1. copy your file.stapl to: hadeb05.gsi.de:/var/diskless/etrax_fs or cerber.if.uj.edu.pl:/home/trebacz/axis_nfs_fs in Craco...
Network Addresses of MDC Motherboards/OEPs According to NetworkAddresses, all OEP get TrbNet addresses in the range between 0x2000 to 0x2FFF. The second hex digit...
Readout Setup v1 : AddOnv1 and other outdated information Rossendorf Dec07 discussion In Rossendorf we had a discussion about the MDC readout project. The Rossen...
This page tries to explain how to prepare server to handle trb version2. assumptions: 1. server has ethernet interface eth0 with IP: 192.168.0.1 1. trb has...
Main.AttilioTarantola 03 May 2009 Here follows the new data structure for MDC readout(OEPB). In the following picture (taken from Jan's talk, IKF Seminar 30.04.0...
Display Cornelius Kleiner and Christian Kern 22 Jul 2008 description The entity has 4 inputs and 3 outputs. Input Bits Function Output Bits Funktion ...
Main.AttilioTarantola 04 Jun 2009 Here one can find few dataword samples: Calibration: * out_cal_1_long: calibration data from 1 long Motherboard, all TDCs ena...
Main.AttilioTarantola 12 Dec 2008 Test conditions: the OEPB configures and acquires data continuosly from TDCs. FOT transmits and receives random data. Cali...
MDC Upgrade: Cooperation with Yanyu Wang Introduction In the HADES DAQ Upgrade project the MDC Upgrade is an essential part. The expected data rates for heavy ...
Main.AttilioTarantola 08 Jan 2009 For each OEPB we should monitor the following information: State Machines states (13 15 entities. 15 registers 8bits each). ...
MDC Upgrade: MDC Optical Endpoint Hardware test Here we collect the documents relative hardware measurement Chip's temperatures Main.AttilioTarantola and Ya...
Here we describe our various AddOn Cards for the TRBv2 HUB AddOn The TRB HUB servers as the trigger fanout module. It has 16 times a 2 GBit/s SFP. The SERDESes a...
List of patches compiled by Marcin on 06.05.2005 Error list in order of tracing them: 1 RESET is output from ETRAX 1 MRESET is input to ETRAX (place manual ...
Things we learned from Etrax_FS_Dev1 1 A Ceramic Capacitor (100V) on 48V is missing (100nF). 1 Take care of the LEDs. They are not correct on the ETRAX_FS_D...
AddOns The pictures shown are a sized down. Download the file from the table to see the high resolution version. Trb2 B Connect Temperature Sensor to FPGA: Via o...