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Currently specific for SLAC IS demonstrator:
4x 2x Optoboard V2.1 are housed in one Optobox. We have 1 v4 optoboard. This Optobox is housed in a Test-Optopanel.
We have 2 FELIX servers in B84 EPP lab, felix (running Centos7) and felix2 (running Alma Linux). The felix server has older versions of the optoboard software, whereas felix2 is brought up with the latest software and firmware releases. felix2 has to be cold rebooted, warm reboot will hang. The issue may be due to ethernet port being shared between the host and IPMI board.
Interfaces:
Please refer to our the Bern Interface Document here. All the QC connectors of the Optoboard System is explained there.
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Optoboard system support:
We collect Bern collects support requests and general questions on our Mattermost channel Bern-Optoboard (invite link). Your contacts as of Aug. 2022 are Aaron O'Neill and Daniele del Santo.
Optoboard software for FELIX:
FELIX, optoboard software, and YARR setup:
FELIX firmware (see atlas-project-felix.web.cern.ch for more information):
- felix: firmware version 2221, recommended by Sasha on July 26, 2024 (CERNbox link)
- felix2: there are a few versions of the firmware that can be used:
- Release from Ricardo Luz' March ITk week presentation
- A nightly after ae8a2460of master, pipeline ran on April 24 (build link)
- The testing bitfile directly from Ricardo
FELIX software:
- felix:
- felix2: software git commit 73d2d72a of master (compatible with the latest firmware). Note that for local compilation you need to use
source cmake_tdaq/bin/setup.sh x86_64-el9-gcc13-opt.
Microservices software for optoboard, developed by BernWe created a repository with scripting software to easily configure the Optoboard: https://gitlab.cern.ch/bat/optoboard_felix. A lot is documented in the readme and wiki of the repository.We are using FELIX version 2221 as recommended by Sasha on July 26 2023, found at this CERNbox link.
The repository is located in the directory:
/home/itkpix/optoboard-system
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- felix: optoboard_FELIX
- felix2: same as above, tag 1.0.37
YARR (see Angira Rastogi's March ITk week presentation and LBL documentation):
- felix: v1.5.0, used primarily felixcore
- felix2: v1.5.1, using felix-star
Instructions for felix server:
In a first terminal felixcore:
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cd /home/itkpix/optoboard-system
source flx_opto_setup.sh # warm start
export PYTHONPATH="/home/itkpix/optoboard-system/optoboard_felix_2023Nov/src/:${PYTHONPATH}" # Needed in newer versions of optoboard software |
- In case the optoboard was just powered or got stuck, you need to do a cold start setup (this is incompatible with felixcore so that you need to terminate felixcore in the other window before doing this):
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For optoboard standalone test setups, a mini LV/DCS service cable bundle is needed to supply 2.5V to optoboard and lead out its NTC monitoring out through the Samtec SFM-104-01-L-D connector .
Standalone optoboard LV/NTC power adaptor cable spec spec
Optoboard-FELIX Fiber Connectivity:
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