Priorities

DAQ integration priority order determined together with Sebastien Boutet and hutch scientists

Protocols that are easier for DAQ:

  • cameralink
  • coaxpress over fiber
  • anything low-rate (<=100Hz) where it's easy to make an IOC for it (e.g with a company SDK we already support, like andor or alvium)
    • anything with an existing IOC that supports LCLS2-timing is "free"

Meeting dates:

  • Nov. 20, 2023 with Sebastien/James/Georgi
  • Mar. 20, 2024 with Georgi/Kristjan/Dan/Chris/Dougie/DJ/Lingjia
  • June 6, 2024 James, Kristjan, Silke, Georgi, Alex, Sebastien, Andy

NOTE: Any camera that is implemented as an IOC should submit a Jira ticket for the controls group with "component" set to "Imaging" (ECS Supported Devices Curation) to make sure functionality is not being duplicated.  See approved list of controls-detectors here (https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=326510196#SupportedDevices(SDL)-Addingadevice).

Detectors in priority order.  Implementation order will also be affected by available expertise and how long the integration project will take.

  • (almost complete) rixccd (archon)
    • needs new timestamping firmware
  • (almost complete) superconducting phase-cavity BLD
    • (close)
  • ebeam BLD
    • would help if TMO/RIX scientists could push on ACR (Jeremy Mock?)
    • needed for SXR XTCAV?
  • small (2Mpx, 5kHz) txi epixHR (beginning of 2025)
    • only for tests, not in official experiments
  • (complete) rix high-rate mono-encoder
  • UED 1080Hz epix10ka
    • some high-rate beam issues. not used at high rates with beam before first half of 2025
  • mfx jungfrau16M (early 2025)
  • mfx usb alvium support (for timetool plug-in) although opal could be used
    • ~120Hz 
    • if implemented as IOC: timetool plug-in is non-trivial?  Ask Mat Bain, Matt Britton, Giacomo
  • mfx epix100
    • for lcls2, needs work but somewhat done
  • mfx fee spectrometer support (bld and full ioc image)
  • rix axis sxr-60 camera (chemrix spectrometer) 
    • smaller pixel than epix
    • can't use andor: flange-mount makes grazing-incidence difficult
    • could happen before "the shutdown" (at slac end of September 2024, but have framegrabber)
    • commissioned in run 23 (oct 2024 through feb 2025)
    • highest priority for new instrument for rixs experiments
    • plan is to implement as an IOC (who? dan? if tid could do it that would be great)
  • tmo tixel
    • tmo happy with standalone running 
    • magnetic bottle expts could use existing detector
    • would be nice to replace a dream delay-line-detector with tixel? need a larger one. not obligated to users
    • higher priority than big txi epixHR
    • could replace k-microscope delay-line detector
  • UED EMCCD?
    • same as Andor iXon
    • working on an IOC (in-progress)
    • if so can be implemented as a "pvaDetector"
    • medium-term goal for UED
  • big txi epixHR (4Mpx 35kHz, big one delayed)
  • (done, to first order, but awaiting TID improvements) rix epixM (depends on approved experiments)
    • Georgi wants to start testing in hutch in fall 2024
  • epixUHR (testing and in XPP, production not until late 2026)
    • Riccardo Melchiorri is working on this
  • opal replacement (waiting on decision from scientists: see Opal Replacement)
    • would like alvium
  • rix k-microscope delay-line-detector (depends on approved experiments)
    • on-hold.  waiting for management approval.
      • Yves/Markus should communicate with Jake Koralek 
      • cpo estimates 3 more months of FTE effort to integrate 
      • should we use the dream dld or perhaps tixel instead?
      • local contact person: Jake Koralek
      • priority depends on conclusions of workshop in March 2024
      • perhaps users in spring 2025
  • timepix
  • mec varex?  need to talk to mec people to set priority
    • perhaps "someone" will create a timestamping IOC?
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