October 31, 2016
From GlueXWiki
- 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 (effectively 160 ns)
- 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
- - FADC250
- 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