ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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151
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14 Oct 2020 08:39 |
Tom Thorpe | Routine | General | Log regarding MB2 removal from Proto-0 | Drive folder with data files and some pictures: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Sr27kQTOO2kciBY7v-wYBP06tWLVEjiP
Lab notes @ CERN
11/10/2020 |
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150
|
08 Sep 2020 12:46 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Other | New backup ELOG location | I have added a backup of the CERN proto-0
ELOG at TRIUMF, in case ds-proto-daq is unavailable
in future.
|
|
149
|
16 Mar 2020 14:21 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Software | New CAEN HV frontend | A few months ago I created a new midas frontend
for CAEN HV crates. It behaves more like
what users expect - changes made through |
|
148
|
20 Nov 2019 04:47 |
Sam Hill | Routine | General | IV Curve - warming up | Temp at start:
A: 242.7K B: 278.16K
C: 86.4K D: 240.89K |
|
147
|
19 Nov 2019 04:07 |
Julie / Pascal | Routine | Other | IV curve at the end of data taking | IV of 25 SiPM put in ivdata_191119 directory |
|
146
|
19 Nov 2019 01:39 |
Julie / Pascal | Routine | General | Random Trigger runs suggested by Simone, S1 data / 3ms | Run 1258 Physics run
Chronobox: External
trigger Enable |
|
145
|
19 Nov 2019 00:57 |
Julie/ Pascal | Routine | General | Random Trigger runs suggested by Simone, S1 data / 1ms | Run 1255 Physics run
Chronobox: External
trigger Enable |
|
144
|
19 Nov 2019 00:14 |
Pascal/Julie | Routine | General | Laser run | Run 1252 Laser run
Chronobox: External
trigger Enable |
|
143
|
18 Nov 2019 07:20 |
Ben Smith | Routine | General | Disk cleanup | Lazy logger has caught up with the backlog,
and continues to transfer new files to darkside01
as they are written.
|
|
142
|
18 Nov 2019 07:01 |
Julie / Edgar | Routine | General | Random Trigger runs suggested by Simone, S1 data | PDM 15 and PDM 19 strange behaviour, lot
of noise
Run 1239 Physics run |
|
141
|
18 Nov 2019 03:03 |
Julie / Pascal / Edgar | Routine | General | Random Trigger runs suggested by Simone (4 runs ~ 200 k evts) | Run 1234 Physics run
Chronobox: External
trigger Enable |
|
140
|
18 Nov 2019 02:40 |
Pascal/Julie | Routine | General | Laser run | Run 1232 Laser run
Chronobox: External
trigger Enable |
|
139
|
18 Nov 2019 00:18 |
Yi / Edgar | Routine | General | dual phase data taking | We still have the noise issue.
Run 1219
Gas pocket: ON |
|
138
|
17 Nov 2019 02:23 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | dual phase data taking | Noise problem seems like fixed after remaking
the Al foil cover.
Run 1208 |
|
137
|
17 Nov 2019 00:48 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | dual phase data taking | Run 1197
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
136
|
16 Nov 2019 01:57 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Dual phase data taking proposed by Marco | Run 1186
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
135
|
15 Nov 2019 10:48 |
E. Sanchez | Routine | General | S1 data taking proposed by Marco | Run 1171
Gas pocket: OFF
Fields: 0 V/cm |
|
134
|
15 Nov 2019 00:19 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Laser run | Run 1166 Laser run
Chronobox: External
trigger Enable |
|
133
|
14 Nov 2019 08:14 |
Ben Smith | Routine | General | Automatic copying to darkside01 | I have set up automatic copying of data from
ds-proto-daq to darkside01, using the lazy
logger.
|
|
132
|
14 Nov 2019 07:42 |
E. Sanchez | Routine | General | S1 data taking with field | Run 1148
Gas pocket: OFF
Fields: 500 |
|
131
|
14 Nov 2019 04:03 |
Yi/Edgar/Sam | Routine | General | Noise data taking | Run 1121
Gas pocket: OFF
Fields: |
|
130
|
14 Nov 2019 03:51 |
E. Sanchez | Routine | General | S1 data taking without field | Run 1133
Gas pocket: OFF
Fields: OFF |
|
129
|
14 Nov 2019 00:33 |
E. Sanchez | Routine | General | Morning data taking | It is not possible to access to the Chronobox
page
Run 1109 Laser run |
|
128
|
14 Nov 2019 00:09 |
Ben Smith | Problem | Hardware | Chronobox not serving human webpage | The chronobox isn't serving the human-interactive
webpage that should be visible at https://m-darkside.web.cern.ch/chronobox/
- it responds with "File not found". Oddly, |
|
127
|
13 Nov 2019 09:24 |
Xiang Xiao | Routine | General | Evening data taking | Run 1105
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
126
|
13 Nov 2019 08:15 |
Ben Smith | Routine | Software | Don't worry about "Param Not Found Type" error messages | When we start the HV program (CAEN_SY4527),
it spews error messages of the form:
"16:58:30.035 2019/11/13 [CAEN_SY4527,ERROR] |
|
125
|
13 Nov 2019 00:08 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Morning data taking | Run 1099
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
124
|
12 Nov 2019 10:08 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | Laser run | Run 1096 Laser run
Chronobox: External
trigger Enable |
|
123
|
12 Nov 2019 09:30 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | Afternoon system monitoring | Run 1092
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
122
|
12 Nov 2019 09:22 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | Afternoon system monitoring | Run 1090
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
121
|
12 Nov 2019 00:24 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Morning data taking | Run 1084
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
120
|
12 Nov 2019 00:23 |
Ben Smith | Problem | Digitizer | V1725 error, runs keep crashing | It looks like there's a memory leak in the
high voltage driver, and we were running
out of memory (using a lot of swap). That |
|
119
|
12 Nov 2019 00:16 |
Yi Wang | Problem | Digitizer | V1725 error, runs keep crashing | 09:15:33.955 2019/11/12 [feov1725MTI00,ERROR]
[feoV1725.cxx:663:link_thread,ERROR] Exiting
thread 3 with error |
|
118
|
11 Nov 2019 23:57 |
Yi Wang | Problem Fixed | Trigger | ID 117 problem is fixed | The problem reported in ID 117 is somehow
fixed this morning. |
|
117
|
11 Nov 2019 10:05 |
Sam Hill | Problem | General | Evening data taking | Attemted the following run, and
it started but the rate was shoing 0 and
it got stuck on 5 events |
|
116
|
11 Nov 2019 09:31 |
Sam Hill | Routine | General | Afternoon system monitoring: IV curves and Dewar refill | 17:30
Took a set of IV curves using 0.5V
steps from 30-50V and 0.05 steps above 50V. |
|
115
|
11 Nov 2019 01:12 |
Yi / Edgar | Routine | General | Morning data taking | Run 1065
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
114
|
11 Nov 2019 00:47 |
Yi / Edgar | Problem Fixed | Digitizer | Problem fixed by restarting the VME crate | |
|
113
|
11 Nov 2019 00:37 |
Yi Wang | Problem | MIDAS | cannot connect to rootana | The connection to rootana is lost.
No data taking can be started. |
|
112
|
10 Nov 2019 12:15 |
E. Sanchez | Problem | MIDAS | Problem DAQ | Error during data taking 1573416708
21:11:48.151 2019/11/10 [feov1725MTI00,INFO]
V1725 PLL loss lock Board:0 (vmeAcq=0x0) |
|
111
|
10 Nov 2019 11:19 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | S1 + S2 short time window | Run 1054
Gas pocket: ON
(unknow) |
|
110
|
10 Nov 2019 11:18 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | Afternoon system monitoring | Run 1050
Gas pocket: ON
(unknow) |
|
109
|
10 Nov 2019 08:40 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | S1 data taking without field | Run 1041
Gas pocket: OFF
Fields: OFF |
|
108
|
10 Nov 2019 08:04 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | S1 data taking with field | Run 1032
Gas pocket: OFF
Fields: drift |
|
107
|
10 Nov 2019 00:06 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | morning data taking | Run 1022
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
106
|
09 Nov 2019 09:39 |
Sam Hill | Routine | General | Evening data taking | Run 1016
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
105
|
09 Nov 2019 07:29 |
Marco Rescigno | Problem Fixed | MIDAS | this morning problem | frontend process still alive but slow,
causing lot of rejected triggers.
stopped and restarted the feov1725 |
|
104
|
09 Nov 2019 00:13 |
Xiang Xiao | Routine | General | Morning data taking | "ERROR INFO: 10:38:10.924 2019/11/09
[feov1725MTI00,ERROR] [feoV1725.cxx:1048:read_trigger_event,ERROR]
Error: did not receive a ZMQ bank after 100.000000 |
|
103
|
08 Nov 2019 22:31 |
Marco | Configuration | Hardware | Adding darkside01 | Wrong MAC address fixed in CERN network
setting, now the machine is visible from
external network too: |
|
101
|
08 Nov 2019 10:07 |
Edgar Sanchez | Routine | General | Monitoring Data Taking | Run 995
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
100
|
08 Nov 2019 09:09 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Hardware | Adding darkside01 to the network | The cable has been fixed. Socket 0001/007
is still not active. |
|
99
|
08 Nov 2019 08:35 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Hardware | Failed to talk to steering module from DAQ PC | I have failed to communicate with the steering
module arduino from the DAQ PC.
|
|
98
|
08 Nov 2019 05:14 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Hardware | Adding darkside01 to the network | The analysis server from Roma (darkside01)
is now connected to the local network. It
is not yet connected to CERN.
|
|
97
|
08 Nov 2019 02:48 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | MIDAS | Enabled dotfile naming in Logger | I have changed `/Logger/Channels/0/Settings/Filename`
to start with a dot, so files will be hidden
until they are complete.
|
|
96
|
08 Nov 2019 02:31 |
Ben Smith | Routine | Software | New "run type" selection page | I made a new page that makes it easier to
switch between laser/noise/physics runs.
|
|
95
|
08 Nov 2019 02:21 |
Ben Smith | Problem Fixed | Software | Increased max waveform length that we can take | I've increased various thresholds so that
we can now take 3000us (3ms) waveforms.
|
|
94
|
07 Nov 2019 23:48 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | morning data taking | Run 973
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
93
|
07 Nov 2019 02:34 |
Sam | Routine | General | Run 966 Laser Run with SiPMs at 65V, 30us trace | Laser Intensity: MIN
Threshold: external
clock (laser NIM), laser set to 1kHz |
|
92
|
07 Nov 2019 02:16 |
Sam | Routine | General | Run 964 Laser Run with SiPMs at 65V, 30us trace | Laser Intensity: MAX
Threshold: external
clock (laser NIM), laser set to 1kHz |
|
91
|
07 Nov 2019 02:07 |
Yi/Marco/Andrea | Routine | General | morning data taking, purity check | Run 956
Gas pocket: ON
(thickness 7mm) |
|
90
|
07 Nov 2019 02:07 |
Sam | Routine | General | Run 963 Laser Run with SiPMs at 65V, 12us trace | Laser Intensity: MAX
Threshold: external
clock (laser NIM), laser set to 1kHz |
|
89
|
06 Nov 2019 12:28 |
Ben Smith | Problem Fixed | General | Evening data taking, purity check | > Not sure if the trigger threshold is correctly
set, there is an error:
|
|
88
|
06 Nov 2019 11:22 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Evening data taking, purity check | Not sure if the trigger threshold is correctly
set, there is an error:
Traceback (most recent call last): |
|
87
|
06 Nov 2019 05:58 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Hardware | CAEN VME Crate DHCP | The CAEN VME crate now gets its IP address
from the ds-proto-daq DHCP server. To do
this, I set the IP address of the crate to |
|
86
|
05 Nov 2019 23:58 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Morning data taking, purity check | Run 917
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness 7mm) |
|
85
|
05 Nov 2019 08:32 |
Alex / Sam | Routine | General | Run 900, Edrift 500V/cm | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) [Edgar\Yi: correction: OFF (during |
|
84
|
05 Nov 2019 08:23 |
Alex / Sam | Routine | General | Run 899, Edrift 100V/cm | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) [Edgar\Yi: correction: |
|
83
|
05 Nov 2019 08:14 |
Alex / Sam | Routine | General | Run 898, Edrift 200V/cm | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) [Edgar\Yi: correction: |
|
82
|
05 Nov 2019 07:26 |
Alex / Ben / Sam | Routine | General | Run 894, laser run with SiPMs at 67V, 30us trace | Laser intensity: MAX
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness unknown, since the TPC pressure |
|
81
|
05 Nov 2019 07:24 |
Alex / Ben / Sam | Routine | General | Run 892, laser run with SiPMs at 65V | Laser intensity: MIN
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness unknown, since the TPC pressure |
|
80
|
05 Nov 2019 07:23 |
Alex / Ben / Sam | Routine | General | Run 893, laser run with SiPMs at 65V, 30us trace | Laser intensity: MAX
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness unknown, since the TPC pressure |
|
79
|
05 Nov 2019 07:05 |
Alex / Ben / Sam | Routine | General | Run 891, laser run with SiPMs at 67V | Laser intensity: MIN
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness unknown, since the TPC pressure |
|
78
|
05 Nov 2019 06:56 |
Alex / Ben | Routine | General | Run 889, laser run with SiPMs at 67V | Laser intensity: MAX
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness unknown, since the TPC pressure |
|
77
|
05 Nov 2019 06:55 |
Alex / Ben | Routine | General | Run 888, laser run with SiPMs at 65V | Laser intensity: MAX
Gas pocket: ON
(thinkness unknown, since the TPC pressure |
|
76
|
05 Nov 2019 06:42 |
Alex / Ben | Routine | General | Run 886, baseline run with SiPMs at 50V | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) |
|
75
|
05 Nov 2019 06:36 |
Alex / Ben | Routine | General | Run 885, baseline run with SiPMs at 65V | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) |
|
74
|
05 Nov 2019 05:43 |
Ben Smith | Routine | Software | New script to equalize baselines | I've written a new script that will set all
the V1725 baselines to the same level, by
adjusting the DAC values. All the baselines |
|
73
|
05 Nov 2019 05:09 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Run 877 | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) |
|
72
|
05 Nov 2019 04:57 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Run 875 | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) |
|
71
|
05 Nov 2019 04:48 |
Yi Wang | Routine | General | Run 873 | Gas pocket: ON (thinkness
unknown, since the TPC pressure is >200
mbar) |
|
70
|
05 Nov 2019 01:22 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Digitizer | V1725 board config | The V1725s have been changed to have board
config 0x50 rather than 0x10. This means
that they will now trigger on the leading |
|
69
|
04 Nov 2019 09:02 |
Alex/Yi/Ben | Routine | General | run 865, fields on | Gas pocket: ON
Fields: wire
gate 3780 V, 1st ring: 4500 V, cathode: 7000 |
|
68
|
04 Nov 2019 08:03 |
Ben Smith | Routine | Software | New script for setting self-trigger thresholds | I have created a new script that simplifies
the adjustment of self-trigger thresholds
(e.g. to change between "noise" runs with |
|
67
|
04 Nov 2019 08:00 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | MIDAS | Change of location of history files | /home was getting very full on ds-proto-daq,
so I moved the history files onto the /data
disk. There is now a symlink from ~/online/history |
|
66
|
04 Nov 2019 07:57 |
Ben Smith | Configuration | Software | Package installations | This morning I installed the xrootd-client
and python3-devel packages from yum. For
the latter to work, I needed to do a yum |
|
65
|
04 Nov 2019 06:02 |
Alex Kish | Configuration | Hardware | Increased fields! | Increased drift and extraction fields.
Current settings: wire gate 5100 V, 1st ring: |
|
64
|
03 Nov 2019 09:17 |
Alex Kish | Routine | General | run 836, zero drift field | Gas pocket: ON
Fields: drift
field OFF (1st ring 0 V, cathode 0 V), extraction |
|
63
|
03 Nov 2019 08:49 |
Alex Kish | Routine | General | run 835, zero drift field | Gas pocket: ON
Fields: drift
field OFF (1st ring 0 V, cathode 0 V), extraction |
|
62
|
03 Nov 2019 08:15 |
Alex Kish | Routine | General | run 834, drift field ON, extraction OFF | Gas pocket: ON
Fields: drift
field ON (1st ring 4180 V, cathode 6180 V), |
|
61
|
03 Nov 2019 07:46 |
Alex Kish | Routine | General | run 833, with nominal fields | Gas pocket: ON
Fields: ON (wire
gate 3780 V, 1st ring 4180 V, cathode 6180 |
|
60
|
01 Nov 2019 10:56 |
Alex / Marco | Routine | General | run 829, with nominal fields | Gas pocket: ON
Fields: ON
Threshold: 200 |
|
58
|
01 Nov 2019 09:49 |
Alex Kish | Configuration | Hardware | Turn off the fields | Ramp UP the fields, in 100V steps.
Nominal values:
|
|
56
|
01 Nov 2019 09:06 |
Alex Kish | Routine | General | run 826, zero-field with gas pocket | Gas pocket: ON
Fields: OFF
Threshold: 400 |
|
55
|
01 Nov 2019 06:50 |
Alex Kish | Configuration | Hardware | Turn off the fields | Ramp down the fields, in 200V steps.
Nominal values:
1st ring: 4180 V
|
|
54
|
01 Nov 2019 06:15 |
Ben Smith | Problem Fixed | Software | Restoration of elog | After booting, the elog was only showing logs
from before July, and was missing the "For
Shifters" category. It appears we were loading |
|
53
|
01 Nov 2019 06:07 |
Ben Smith | Problem Fixed | Software | Restoration of network settings | For a few days we were unable to access ds-proto-daq
remotely. We were also unable to reach the
outside world from ds-proto-daq.
|
|
52
|
28 Oct 2019 15:10 |
Simone Stracka | Configuration | Hardware | LV for steering module and current status of CAEN mainframe | The HV board from Naples did not turn on:
Yury gave it to the CAEN guys to check and/or
bring back for replacement. |
|
51
|
28 Oct 2019 14:56 |
Simone Stracka | Problem | Software | Issues with network configuration for steering module | We have tried to connect the steering module
to the DAQ pc via Luigi's USB-Ethernet
adapter. |
|
50
|
28 Oct 2019 14:10 |
Ben Smith | Problem Fixed | Software | Converters installed in VME crate | > V1725 board #0 logic level is set to TTL
(boards #1, #2, #3 to NIM)
|
|
49
|
28 Oct 2019 08:33 |
Ben Smith | Problem Fixed | Software | Need python3 package tkinter on DAQ pc | I have installed the python3-tkinter package
from yum. I checked that "import tkinter"
works from a python3 prompt. |
|
48
|
28 Oct 2019 06:28 |
Simone Stracka | Problem | Software | Need python3 package tkinter on DAQ pc | We need python3 package tkinter installed
on ds-proto-daq in order to run the steering
module GUI. |
|
47
|
27 Oct 2019 06:08 |
Simone Stracka | Configuration | Hardware | Converters installed in VME crate | People: Edgar, Simone
Installed differential to single-ended
converters in VME crate, and turned crate |
|
46
|
26 Oct 2019 07:33 |
Sam Hill | Problem | Software | Test of IV Script | People: Simone, Sam, Tom, Edgar
Tested IV curve python script that
runs using MIDAS. Measured resistance consistant |
|
45
|
25 Oct 2019 07:44 |
Simone Stracka | Routine | Hardware | MB2 activities on October 25 | Crew: Edgar Sanchez Garcia, Sam Hill, Simone
Stracka, Tom Thorpe, Yi Wang
|
|
44
|
25 Oct 2019 07:17 |
Simone Stracka | Routine | Hardware | Photoelectronics activities on October, 24 | Crew: Edgar Sanchez Garcia, Sam Hill, Simone
Stracka, Tom Thorpe, Yi Wang
Morning: Tested photocurrents for |
|
43
|
16 Jul 2019 03:53 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | run 774, scintillation events triggering on all 24 channels and 200 us window | Majority of 8, threshold at 1000 ADC count,
24 channels enabled (16 trigger signals)
10 Hz, 200 us window, trigger at 9.5 microseconds. |
|
42
|
16 Jul 2019 03:51 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | run 773, scintillation events triggering on all 24 channels | Majority of 5, threshold at 1000 ADC count,
24 channels enabled (16 trigger signals)
100 Hz, 30 us window. |
|
41
|
16 Jul 2019 03:17 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | run 772, scintillation events triggering on all channels | Majority of 5, threshold at 1000 ADC count,
13 channels enabled (10 trigger signals)
50 Hz, 30 us window. |
|
40
|
16 Jul 2019 02:41 |
Marco Rescigno | Problem | Trigger | Busy handling | This morning tried to get some data with
Vbias=65 V, which seems better for the SiPM
in MB1. |
|
39
|
16 Jul 2019 02:39 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | run 771, scintillation events triggering on ch11 and ch12 of board0 | Trigger setup with a threshold of 1500
ADC count wrt to baseline, on just two channels.
This is also to limit the trigger |
|
38
|
16 Jul 2019 01:58 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | Run 766 (Laser) | Laser Run with Vbias=65 V , new recommended
value from PE group
500 k events acquired |
|
37
|
13 Jul 2019 14:50 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | Long Laser run on disk | Run 747 , 250 k events
as requested by alessandro 40%
post trigger, acquisition window 16 us. |
|
36
|
12 Jul 2019 11:34 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | MB1 test in proto-0 setup/2 Run 718 | Run 718 has 25 channel readout Board 0
ch 0-15 and Board 0 ch 0-7.
Laser triggered, some noise, maybe |
|
35
|
12 Jul 2019 07:58 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | MB1 test in proto-0 setup/day 2 | Implemented a simple charge integration
on the midas display, most of the channels
look almost as good as this one. |
|
34
|
12 Jul 2019 06:01 |
Marco Rescigno | Routine | General | Run 703 | Run 703 is being writte on disk.
16 channels of board 00.
Laser trigger at 10 Hz |
|
33
|
12 Jul 2019 02:05 |
Marco Rescigno | Problem | Trigger | MB1 test in proto-0 setup/1 | Tried to get laser sync signal into chronobox
(clkin1 input), apparently all triggers dropped
by chronobox |
|
32
|
12 Jul 2019 01:27 |
Marco Rescigno | Configuration | | MB1 test in proto-0 setup/1 | Changed custom size to 500 (20 us), tested
ok run 681 |
|
31
|
11 Jul 2019 15:52 |
Thomas | Routine | Trigger | invert first chronobox busy signal | The DAQ seems to be ready for tests with proto-0
tomorrow.
|
|
30
|
02 Jul 2019 18:01 |
Thomas | Routine | Software | MIDAS running again | Darkside 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 |
|
29
|
11 Apr 2019 08:20 |
Thomas | Routine | Trigger | Missing ZMQ banks | I have done a couple longer tests of the DAQ
setup. The runs were done with a high trigger
rate of ~60Hz, with
|
|
28
|
10 Apr 2019 05:40 |
Thomas | Routine | General | General work - day 3 at CERN | Several points:
1) Gave a series of tutorial on DAQ to DS |
|
27
|
08 Apr 2019 08:31 |
Thomas | Routine | General | General work - day 1 at CERN | Notes on day:
1) Fixed the problem with the network interfaces. |
|
26
|
03 Apr 2019 15:31 |
Thomas | Routine | Software | test of elog | The last elog didn't go out cleanly. Modified
the elogd.cfg to point to the proxy. Try
again. |
|
25
|
03 Apr 2019 15:11 |
Thomas | Routine | Software | CERN SSO proxy for ds-proto-daq | Pierre and I got the CERN proxy setup for
the Darkside prototype.
|
|
24
|
28 Mar 2019 02:18 |
Pierre | Configuration | Trigger | Test | |
|
23
|
27 Mar 2019 14:04 |
Pierre | Configuration | Trigger | Time stamp sync | The ChronoBox latest FW is loaded. Let tme
know if this is what the chronobox should
look like in term of registers.
|
|
22
|
27 Mar 2019 08:57 |
Pierre | Configuration | Hardware | CERN setup | Found that the Trigger out from the CB is
on output1
Trigger / Not used
|
|
21
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11 Mar 2019 15:27 |
Thomas | Routine | Trigger | New chronobox firmware; run start/stop implemented |
> f) However, I found that the frontend program
still consistently failed with this error |
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11 Mar 2019 12:30 |
Thomas | Routine | Trigger | New chronobox firmware; run start/stop implemented | a) Bryerton implemented new version of the
firmware. New features:
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06 Mar 2019 18:19 |
Bryerton Shaw | Routine | Trigger | Setup of chronobox | The SDcard is currently required for operation
of the device, the ext3/4 filesystem will
immediately fail upon removal.
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06 Mar 2019 15:10 |
Thomas, Pierre | Routine | Trigger | Setup of chronobox | Summary of setup of chronobox on network (mostly
done by Pierre):
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06 Mar 2019 14:16 |
Thomas | Routine | General | Retested the chronobox trigger logic | I retested the chronobox trigger generation:
1) Inserting moderate sized pulse into channel |
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05 Mar 2019 14:20 |
Thomas | Routine | Hardware | Installed network card | I installed a PCIe 1Gbps network card and
configured it as a private network. The
PC (ds-proto-daq) is
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05 Mar 2019 10:36 |
Thomas | Routine | Digitizer | Switched to standard V1725 firmware | It turns out that the ZLE V1725 firmware we
are using only supports reading out up to
4000 samples per channel.
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19 Feb 2019 16:26 |
Pierre-A. | Configuration | General | Overall HW configuration | For Reference,
I put a simple schematic for the
Trigger/Run control. |
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13 Feb 2019 16:45 |
Pierre | Problem | Hardware | A3818 from Marco | Checking again Marco's A3818:
- Port #2 (third from top of card) is acting
up.
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08 Feb 2019 12:08 |
Thomas | Problem | Hardware | Installed Marco's A3818; didn't work | I installed Marco's A3818 PCIe card. Didn't
seem to work. I got communication errors
talking to link 2. The
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07 Feb 2019 17:30 |
Thomas | Routine | Software | Testing the maximum data throughput | First check the maximum trigger rate and maximum
data rate for different sample lengths (for
each channels):
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06 Feb 2019 14:12 |
Pierre | Configuration | Hardware | Extended Trigger Time Tag (ETTT) | Confirmed this ETTT configuration is working.
ETTT Enabled [22..21] |
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31 Jan 2019 15:18 |
Pierre | Configuration | Trigger | Trigger rate | Somehow the trigger rate was not matching
the trigger source.
Find out that Link 3 was not collecting and |
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28 Jan 2019 01:44 |
Thoms | Routine | Software | Added web display of V1725 waveforms | I added javascript webdisplay of the V1725
waveforms to the Darkside setup. You can
see the waveform display here:
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21 Jan 2019 13:05 |
Thomas, Pierre | Routine | Digitizer | Tests of V1725 baseline and triggering | A little progress on a couple fronts:
1) We got the baseline DAC setting working |
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17 Jan 2019 15:47 |
Thomas | Routine | Hardware | Added raided HD to ds-proto-daq | Added pair of 10TB hard-drives in raid-1 to
ds-proto-daq. MIDAS data files will get
written to this raid volume.
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11 Jan 2019 11:07 |
Thomas | Routine | Digitizer | Data corruption for ADC channels | I modified the analyzer so that it shows data
from all four modules.
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09 Jan 2019 12:22 |
Thomas | Routine | General | V1725 LVDS outputs | Pierre figured out that NIM crate not working.
We now see LVDS outputs from the individual
channels firing.
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13 Dec 2018 11:02 |
Thomas | Routine | Hardware | Testing V1725 digitizers | Couple weeks of work documented in one elog...
V1725 serial numbers: 455, 392, 460, 462, |
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11 Dec 2018 15:20 |
Thomas | Configuration | Software | Setup elog for ds-proto-daq |
1) Install and tweak elog:
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11 Dec 2018 15:17 |
Thomas | Configuration | Software | Setup elog for ds-proto-daq |
1) Install and tweak elog:
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