RCE Set-up: equipment & connections

Current RCE Set-up (lab 345)

• ATCA 2 slot crate (Asis)

• 3COM Switch

• RCEs - 8 chips possible to connect per RCE
  • Top shelf: 26 & 27 & RTM
  • Bottom shelf: 38 & 39 & RTM

• HSIOs - one per RCE shelf
  • HSIO Virtex4 Board
  • (HSIO Virtex4 Board ) TBC

• ATLAS IBL adaptor board HSIO Interface
  • Previously, ATLAS Cosmic Ray HSIO Interface (Replaces ATLAS Stave 0 Test HSIO Interface)
  • HSIO firmware must be updated for interface board: currently HsioStave0_00000008_nonrot_me_noddr.mcs (Autumn 2016)

• Optic fibre connections
  • RTM XCVR4 to HSIO
  • RTM XCVR1 to SFP port (45) on switch
  • RTM XCVR1 to SFP port (46) 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'

Current PC (Since 2014)

• 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

Old PC (<2014)

• 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

-- Kenneth Wraight - 2016-02-17

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