(r17) RCE < ATLAS/PUUKA

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---+ Glasgow !RCE Info

---++ Set-up

---+++ Note: PC Currently in DESY, Hamburg 21 August 2013 - Andrew

   * ATCA 2 slot crate (Asis)  %BLUE%

   * 3COM Switch %ENDCOLOR%

   * !RCE (36 & 37) & !RTM %BLUE%

   * !HSIO Virtex4 Board %ENDCOLOR%

   * ATLAS Cosmic Ray HSIO Interface (Replaces ATLAS Stave 0 Test HSIO Interface)
      * Required change to HSIO firmware (!HsioCosmic_00000003_eudet.mcs). %BLUE%

   * Agilent !E3648A Power Supply for HSIO board  %ENDCOLOR%

   * TTI Power Supply for powering FEI4 chips %BLUE%

   * PPEPC120 running SL5 (x86_64) (This PC was shipped to DESY for August Testbeam)
      * PC has 2 ethernet cards with ip addresses 194.36.1.123 and 10.129.3.9
      * 10.129.3.9 connects to !RCE set-up
      * Andrew Stewart and Andrew Pickford are administrators on this machine.
      * Installed software:
         * Python 2.4.3
         * Python 2.5.6
         * Enthought - Canopy IDE
         * National Instruments VISA
         * Geany 
         * !TeamViewer 
         * ROOT 5.18 %ENDCOLOR%

   * PPEPC170 (New PC) running SL5 (x86_64)
      * PC has two ethernet cards with ip address 194.36.1.70 and 10.129.3.12.
      * All !DetDev members have been given access to the home directory (25/10/2013).
      * Installation 
         * sudo yum install --enablerepo=dag apt (complete)
         * sudo mkdir daq/slc5 (complete)
         * sudo wget cern.ch/RceDevelopment/repo/apt.tar.gz (complete)
         * sudo tar -zxvf apt.tar.gz (complete)
         * sudo ./apt-wrapper-init (complete)
         * sudo ./apt.wrapper-get update (complete)
         * sudo ./apt-wrapper-get install !RceDAQ_04_00_01 (complete)
         * sudo mkdir /IBLDAQ (complete)
         * download daq scripts 
         * sudo tar -zxvf daq.tar.gz -C /IBLDAQ/ 
         * sudo ln -s /IBLDAQ/daq/IBLDAQ-0-0-0 ~/daq (To make ~/daq the sym link remove this directory first)
         * Installation complete - system running OK %BLUE%


   * Optic fibre connections
      * RTM XCVR4 to HSIO
      * RTM XCVR1 to SFP port (45) on switch %ENDCOLOR%


   * Connecting to the Shelf Manager
      * Requires one female-to-female RS232 cable.
      * Tried using terminal emulator !CuteCom but unable to log in to shelf manager using log in name root. 
      * To launch !CuteCom:
         * Navigate to cutecom-0.14.2
         * run $sudo ./cutecom (must use sudo or access to ports will be denied)
      * Works for !HyperTerminal in Windows
         * Launch !HyperTerminal on a Windows machine and connect to port COM1. Power On the ATCA crate and log in using log in name root
         * Use baud rate 115200 (Manual says use 9600 but this dones't appear to work!)
         * How to turn down the fans? - Current setting is 9 (out of 15).

---++ Running the !RCE software

   * Navigate to the directory %GREEN% ~/daq/rce %ENDCOLOR% %BLUE% 
      * $ cd daq/rce %ENDCOLOR%
   * Open C shell %BLUE% 
      * $ tcsh %ENDCOLOR%
   * Run set-up script %BLUE%
      * $ source scripts/setup_rce-04-00-01.csh %ENDCOLOR%
   * Start servers %BLUE%
      * $ ipc_server &
      * $ rce_ipc_server &
      * $ rce_is_server & %ENDCOLOR%
   * You can check that the servers are running using the command %BLUE%
      * $ rce_ipc_ls %ENDCOLOR%
   * Load !RCE (!RCE ip address is 10.129.3.11) %BLUE%
      * $ rce_load 10.129.3.11 %ENDCOLOR%
   * Open GUI %BLUE%
      * $ calibGui %ENDCOLOR%
   * Further info on [[https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/Atlas/RCEPixelLab][RCEPixelLab]]

---++Test/Scan Data

   * Occupancy plots and histograms can be viewed in the plots tab of the calibGui. %BLUE%

   * Data is saved in %GREEN% ~/calibData %ENDCOLOR% directory.  %ENDCOLOR%

   * There are root scripts in the %GREEN% ~/root_scripts %ENDCOLOR% directory for plotting and analysing analog, digital and threshold scan data. %BLUE%

   * To run the analysis ROOT script open file %GREEN%  run_analysis.C %ENDCOLOR% in an editor (emacs, geany). Change the run number for the Analogue, Digital & Threshold Tests on lines 5 to 7. Open ROOT in the calibData folder and run the %GREEN% run_analysis.C %ENDCOLOR% script. %ENDCOLOR%

---++ IV Scan %BLUE%

   * There is a c++ script for running an IV scan on the pixel detector using a Keithley 2410. The script is located in ~/Projects/IVProgram %ENDCOLOR%
   * To compile and link the IV scan script do: %BLUE%
      * sudo g++ -m32 main.cpp -o iv_scan /usr/local/natinst/ni4882/lib/cib.o -ldl %ENDCOLOR%
      * To run iv_scan do: %BLUE%
         * cd ~/projects/IVProgram
         * ./iv_scan %ENDCOLOR%

---++ !RCE calibGui

---++ FE-I4A Config Files

---++ Background Material


-- Main.AndrewStewart - 2013-07-04
Topic revision: r17 - 2013-10-28 - AndrewStewart
ATLAS/PUUKA