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The first just dumps datagram headers, the latter dumps xtc headers. There are some additional options, how much of the xtc payloads to print, and if you want parsed output for epics. A help string is available by typing xtclinedump with no arguments. Except for the non-default epics argument, xtclinedump does no parsing of the xtc payloads, it simply prints the first few bytes in hex. For reading through payloads, the intel architechture uses little endian, so 0x00040000 = 1024,

Package TimeTool

Note: specific examples for the time tool can be found in /reg/g/psdm/sw/releases/ana-current/TimeTool/examples/.

Modules for analyzing recorded data from a timetool camera setup. The timetool camera measures the time difference between laser and FEL in one of two methods:

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then TimeTool.Analyze would treat the beam as on and the laser as off for every event.

Plotting and Details about Analyze

A general feature of psana is to control the level of output that differnent modules cary out. To see the trace and debug messages of TimeTool.Analyze, set the following environment variable before running your code

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The TimeTool package contains two examples .(see  /reg/g/psdm/sw/releases/ana-current/TimeTool/examples/)

EVR BYKICK signals no beam

A common way to run the TimeTool is to have the laser always on, but the beam is not present when the evr bykick code is present. The TimeTool.Analyze module will build up a reference during the BYKICK shots, and attempt to compute results for all other shots. There are a few reasons why it may fail and return no results - usually related to a very poor signal during that event. To run this example, do

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python TimeTool/examples/refCalibExample.py -h

for details.

that one can

Module Check

a module that retrieves results from the event for either the above module or from data recorded online.

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