This page captures various information about the development of the NRC.
The CERN website: NRC, NRC, contains the plan and additional information.
Here are Ric's notes on the Functional Blocks of the CSC.
Firmware
SVN repository: file:///afs/slac/g/reseng/svn/repos/AtlasCsc
| Module | Register description | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Core |
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| Version information and clock selection | ||
| BUSY | AtlasCscBusyReg | DTM TTC and BUSY forwarding |
| TTCrx | AtlasTtcRxReg | DPM TTCrx block |
| TTCem | AtlasTtcTxEmuReg | DTM TTC emulator |
| SCA | AsmPackCtrlReg | Switched Capacitor Array Controller block |
| FEX | AtlasAsmPackFexReg | Feature EXtraction block |
| FEX-lite | AtlasAsmPackFexLiteReg | Simple FIFO interface to FEX input header data |
| ROL | TBD | Read-Out Link block |
Software
Base Program: DAT
Version control
Structure
| Directory | Description |
|---|---|
common |
...
| Common |
...
| helper code |
hal |
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| Hardware Abstraction Layer | |
rci |
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| Remote Communications Interface | |
fee |
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| Front-End Electronics interface for the FEX RCEs | |
rol |
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| Read-Out Link interface for the Formatter RCEs | |
supervisor |
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| The bridge code for interfacing between the Control side and the Real-Time |
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| sides |
app |
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| NRC Application launching code | |
CSCModules |
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| The Control Processor code, comprising of both stand-alone code and the TDAQ interface |
Build system
- SCons: man
- SConstruct file describe how to build the project.
- SConscript files describe how to build the packages of the project.
- Site-specific: file:///afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/cci/repositories/nrc/scons
Tests
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Shell commands for dumping and manipulating firmware
corebusy(Linux only)ttcRx(RTEMS only)ttcEm(Linux only)sca(RTEMS only)fex(RTEMS only)rol(RTEMs only)
l1aDrain(RTEMS only): Reads the TTCrx FIFO as fast as possible.fexDrain(RTEMS only): Reads the TTCrx and FEX-lite FIFOs as fast as possible.
Trigger
LTP
ROD Busy Module
Output data format
ROS information
- http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/DAQTRIG/ReadOut/rosDocs.php
- https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/ReadoutMain
- https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/ReadOutDocumentation