NPS DAQ in Hall C

Startup

• login: coda@cdaql6 vnc: coda@cdaql6 :6
• in fresh xterm:

startCoda

- xterms (ROCs and PEB) and RCGUI should open

• Restart the components without closing the xterms

restartStuff

• Kill all components and xterms

kcoda

Environment Setup

• The CODA environment is setup using coda_scripts
• User Defined CODA environment variables
  • CODA for ROC/VTP

setenv CODA ${HOME}/coda_3.10_devel
setenv CODA_SCRIPTS ${CODA}/coda_scripts

• CODA for Platform/PEB

setenv CODA ${HOME}/coda/3.10_devel
setenv CODA_SCRIPTS ${HOME}/coda/coda_scripts

• CODA Session and EXPID

setenv SESSION NPS
setenv EXPID NPS

• source the coda scripts setup

source ${CODA_SCRIPTS}/setupCODA3.tcsh

VME ROC

• CODA environment loaded from .tcshrc from setup script:

hccoda@nps-vme1:~/setup_nps-vme_3.10

• Other environment settings
  • LINUXVME

setenv LINUXVME ${HOME}/nps-vme/linuxvme
setenv LINUXVME_INC $LINUXVME/include
setenv LINUXVME_LIB $LINUXVME/$MACHINE/lib
setenv LINUXVME_BIN $LINUXVME/$MACHINE/bin

setenv PATH ${LINUXVME_BIN}:$PATH
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LINUXVME_LIB}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

VTP ROC

• CODA environment loaded from .tcshrc from setup script:

hccoda@nps-vtp1:~/setup_nps-vtp_3.10

Platform / PEB

• CODA environment loaded from .cshrc from setup script:

coda@cdaql6:~/bin/nps_coda_user_setup

• Other environment settings

setenv JAVA_HOME ${HOME}/coda/jdk1.8.0_152
setenv COOL_HOME ${HOME}/coda/cool

VME Module Configuration

FADC250 Configuration

hccoda@nps-vme2:~/nps-vme/cfg/nps-vme2.cfg

VME Readout Lists

hccoda@nps-vme2:~/nps-vme/rol/

nps_vme_list.c

• readout of TI and fadc250
• compiles as

nps_vme_master_list.so
nps_vme_slave_list.so

• master configured for triggers from TSINPUTS: TS#1, TS#2
• fadc250 configuration file read from "User Configuration file"
• ti configuration read from "User String" - not yet implemented
  • vtp - not yet implemented
  • slaveN, N=[1,8] - not yet implemented

ti_list.c

• readout of TI
• compiles as

ti_master_list.so
ti_slave_list.so

• master configured for triggers from TSINPUTS: TS#1, TS#2
• ti configuration read from "User String"
  • vtp
  • slaveN, N=[1,8] - not yet implemented

event_list.crl

• Required for user events from VME ROC.
• compiles as

event_list.so

CODA Configurations

• vme2
  • ROCs
    • npsvme2

ROL1: nps-vme/rol/nps_vme_master_list.so
ROL2: nps-vme/rol/event_list.so
User Config: nps-vme/cfg/nps-vme2.cfg

• • PEBs: PEB1

• COOL_HOME defined as

hccoda@cdaql6:~/coda/cool

• CODA_COMPONENT_TABLE defined as

hccoda@cdaql6:~/coda/coda_scripts/config/NPS/coda_component_table.cfg

#
# CODA Component table - NPS EELsetup
#
# hostname	component type    component name
nps-vme1	ROC	  	  npsvme1
cdaql6		PEB		  PEB1

VTP uBoot configuration

port	vtp
2001	nps-vtp1
2002	nps-vtp2
2003	nps-vtp3
2004	nps-vtp4
2005	nps-vtp5

• Access to VTP boot parameters is through the NPS portserver.

telnet nps-ps1 <port>