DAQ in EEL 108

How to run the DAQ in EEL building room 108.

Updated Jan 24, 2023. Bob Michaels.

Three VXS crates each with 15 FADCs. So, that is 720 channels of FADC.

user: hccoda ; Password is posted near the screen computer: cdaql3

Start/stop runs

Usually the DAQ is already running on one of the workspaces on cdaql3 (the giant screen). Then it's like any other CODA system. Stop/start runs with the Run Control GUI (rcgui).

How to CODA start from scratch.

On hccoda@cdaql3, type "startCoda" (note the capital C). The xterms with components pops up. Those are the 3 crates nps-vme1, nps-vme2, nps-vme3, as well as the event builder PEB1. The Run Control GUI (rcgui) pops up. We normally want the configuration "NPS_3crate" for the aforementioned crates. We also have single-VME configs ("vme1", "vme2", "vme3") but they only work if the trigger is plugged into the master TI. More on the trigger below.

FADC parameters are defined in the usual config file

ssh -X nps-vme1 -l hccoda ; cd cfg ; and see nps-vmeN.cfg where N = 1, 2, 3. Please don't modify these unless you know what you are doing.

Trigger

Curently the trigger is a front-panel trigger going into the 7th input of the TI-master. This input is labelled "TS#1". Later we'll have a fancy VTP trigger and I'll update this. But currently the trigger consists of the "and" between a scintillator on top and bottom of the calorimeter. And each scintillator is the "or" of the two PMTs that are connected to the two ends of the scintillator.

Readout list

/opt/cdaql3/hccoda/nps-vme/rol

coda files

/data1/cdaq/NPS

evio2xml NPS_3crate_582.evio.0

Ben's spying PED program

Just type the command below:

/opt/coda/3.10_devel/linuxvme/fadc-HallB/test/fadc250peds ./../../../../../cdaql3/hccoda/nps-vme/cfg/nps-vme1.cfg newpeds.txt

Bryan's VLD source code

ssh -X nps-vme4 -l hccoda

cd bryan/vld-epics/

To run the shell scripts:

/home/hccoda/scripts/VLD