Glasgow RCE Info

Set-up

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

• 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) (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

• 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
  • Installed Software
    • Canopy (Python IDE)
      • 5/12/2013: Set Canopy as python default so ipython runs from command line. (ipython --pylab)
    • TeamViewer 7
    • ROOT 5.34/10

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

• 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).
    • Use command: 'clia minfanlevel 3'

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.C 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.C 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