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The CERN website, 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

ModuleRegister descriptionFunction
Core

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 Version information and clock selection
BUSYAtlasCscBusyRegDTM TTC and BUSY forwarding
TTCrxAtlasTtcRxRegDPM TTCrx block
TTCemAtlasTtcTxEmuRegDTM TTC emulator
SCAAsmPackCtrlRegSwitched Capacitor Array Controller block
FEXAtlasAsmPackFexRegFeature EXtraction block
FEX-liteAtlasAsmPackFexLiteRegSimple FIFO interface to FEX input header data
ROLTBDRead-Out Link block

Software

Base Program: DAT  

Version control

Structure

DirectoryDescription
common

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Common

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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

Activities

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Shell commands for dumping and manipulating firmware

  • core
  • busy (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

Activities