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  3   13 Dec 2018 11:02 ThomasRoutineHardwareTesting V1725 digitizersCouple weeks of work documented in one elog...

V1725 serial numbers: 455, 392, 460, 462,
  
  4   09 Jan 2019 12:22 ThomasRoutineGeneralV1725 LVDS outputsPierre figured out that NIM crate not working.
 We now see LVDS outputs from the individual
channels firing. 
  
  5   11 Jan 2019 11:07 ThomasRoutineDigitizerData corruption for ADC channelsI modified the analyzer so that it shows data
from all four modules.
 dsproto_corrupt.gif 
  6   17 Jan 2019 15:47 ThomasRoutineHardwareAdded raided HD to ds-proto-daqAdded pair of 10TB hard-drives in raid-1 to
ds-proto-daq.  MIDAS data files will get
written to this raid volume.
  
  7   21 Jan 2019 13:05 Thomas, PierreRoutineDigitizerTests of V1725 baseline and triggeringA little progress on a couple fronts:

1) We got the baseline DAC setting working
  
  8   28 Jan 2019 01:44 ThomsRoutineSoftwareAdded web display of V1725 waveformsI added javascript webdisplay of the V1725
waveforms to the Darkside setup.  You can
see the waveform display here:
  
  11   07 Feb 2019 17:30 ThomasRoutineSoftwareTesting the maximum data throughputFirst check the maximum trigger rate and maximum
data rate for different sample lengths (for
each channels):
  
  15   05 Mar 2019 10:36 ThomasRoutineDigitizerSwitched to standard V1725 firmwareIt turns out that the ZLE V1725 firmware we
are using only supports reading out up to
4000 samples per channel.
  
  16   05 Mar 2019 14:20 ThomasRoutineHardwareInstalled network cardI installed a PCIe 1Gbps network card and
configured it as a private network.  The
PC (ds-proto-daq) is
  
  17   06 Mar 2019 14:16 ThomasRoutineGeneralRetested the chronobox trigger logicI retested the chronobox trigger generation:

1) Inserting moderate sized pulse into channel
  
  18   06 Mar 2019 15:10 Thomas, PierreRoutineTriggerSetup of chronoboxSummary of setup of chronobox on network (mostly
done by Pierre):
  
  19   06 Mar 2019 18:19 Bryerton ShawRoutineTriggerSetup of chronoboxThe SDcard is currently required for operation
of the device, the ext3/4 filesystem will
immediately fail upon removal.
  
  20   11 Mar 2019 12:30 ThomasRoutineTriggerNew chronobox firmware; run start/stop implementeda) Bryerton implemented new version of the
firmware.  New features:
  
  21   11 Mar 2019 15:27 ThomasRoutineTriggerNew chronobox firmware; run start/stop implemented
> f) However, I found that the frontend program
still consistently failed with this error
  
  25   03 Apr 2019 15:11 ThomasRoutineSoftwareCERN SSO proxy for ds-proto-daq Pierre and I got the CERN proxy setup for
the Darkside prototype.
  
  26   03 Apr 2019 15:31 ThomasRoutineSoftwaretest of elogThe last elog didn't go out cleanly.  Modified
the elogd.cfg to point to the proxy.  Try
again.
  
  27   08 Apr 2019 08:31 ThomasRoutineGeneralGeneral work - day 1 at CERNNotes on day:

1) Fixed the problem with the network interfaces.
  
  28   10 Apr 2019 05:40 ThomasRoutineGeneralGeneral work - day 3 at CERNSeveral points:

1) Gave a series of tutorial on DAQ to DS
  
  29   11 Apr 2019 08:20 ThomasRoutineTriggerMissing ZMQ banksI have done a couple longer tests of the DAQ
setup.  The runs were done with a high trigger
rate of ~60Hz, with
  
  30   02 Jul 2019 18:01 ThomasRoutineSoftwareMIDAS running againDarkside people seem to be doing some tests
at CERN next week.  It looks like they aren't
going to use our DAQ (they will I think just
  
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