October 31, 2016

• Status of the firmware update

- FADC250

processing version C04 since last week (minor issues, will be updated shortly),

control versions: 81 (TAGM/TAGH), 41 all other crates

most minor issues have been fixed (DAC, trigger energy flow, ...)

- New CTP firmware on tagger crates (106, 307, and A03)

improves trigger timing by about 260 ns (FADC/CTP/SSP communication)

do not update CTP firmware on other crates (may consider in the future, require some efforts)

- New SSP firmware for TAGM/TAGH crates

- New firmware versions for TIs (tip 61), TD (tdp 61)

allows for busy distribution

- New DSC firmware (version 0x10e)

allows to set up bipolar thresholds

installed on all crates except TOF

is being currently tested

updated config files to allow for positive thresholds (negative threshold values in config files)

FADC 125

New firmware (Cody)

No readout issues anymore (so far), some features with settings (reading out) thresholds

(Cody is trying to fix now)

F1 TDC

new version exists (is being tested)

more robust performance at high rate

consider to install on some crates (TAGH) if time permits

CAEN TDC (Beni)

• Testing tagger trigger "

checking performance using play back

correct trigger bit/channel assignment (VXS back plane was replaced, new CTP firmware version)

minor issues with FADC/CTP/SSP communication (will be fixed)

• High-rate performance testing

checked busy distributions from fadc 125 and 250 modules

planning to repeat (perform more comprehensive tests) during this week

(firmware was updated)

• Modifications in initialization libs and config files

- new initialization and config parameters for FADC250

- config files for the play back

- additions/reorganization of config files ( per channel DSC thresholds, etc.; any sub-detector groups requests)

- configurations for stand alone daq