Glasgow RCE Info

Set-up

• ATCA 2 slot crate (Asis)

• 3COM Switch

• RCE (36 & 37) & RTM

• HSIO Virtex4 Board

• ATLAS Cosmic Ray HSIO Interface (Replaces ATLAS Stave 0 Test HSIO Interface)
  • Required change to HSIO firmware (HsioCosmic_00000003_eudet.mcs).

• Agilent E3648A Power Supply for HSIO board

• TTI Power Supply for powering FEI4 chips

• PPEPC120 running SL5 (x86_64)
  • 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

• Optic fibre connections
  • RTM XCVR4 to HSIO
  • RTM XCVR1 to SFP port (45) on switch

Running the RCE software

• Navigate to the directory ~/daq/rce
  • $ cd daq/rce
• Open C shell
  • $ tcsh
• Run set-up script
  • $ source scripts/setup_rce-04-00-01.csh
• Start servers
  • $ ipc_server &
  • $ rce_ipc_server &
  • $ rce_is_server &
• You can check that the servers are running using the command
  • $ rce_ipc_ls
• Load RCE (RCE ip address is 10.129.3.11)
  • $ rce_load 10.129.3.11
• Open GUI
  • $ calibGui
• Further info on RCEPixelLab

Test/Scan Data

• Occupancy plots and histograms can be viewed in the plots tab of the calibGui.

• Data is saved in ~/calibData directory.

• There are root scripts in the ~/root_scripts directory for plotting and analysing analog, digital and threshold scan data.

• To run the analysis ROOT script open file run_analysis.root 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 run_analysis.root script.

IV Scan

• 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
• To compile and link the IV scan script do:
  • sudo g++ -m32 main.cpp -o iv_scan /usr/local/natinst/ni4882/lib/cib.o -ldl
  • To run iv_scan do:
    • cd ~/projects/IVProgram
    • ./iv_scan

RCE calibGui

FE-I4A Config Files

Background Material

-- AndrewStewart - 2013-07-04