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ID Date Author Typeup Category Subject Text Attachments
  53   01 Nov 2019 06:07 Ben SmithProblem FixedSoftwareRestoration of network settingsFor 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.
  
  54   01 Nov 2019 06:15 Ben SmithProblem FixedSoftwareRestoration of elogAfter booting, the elog was only showing logs
from before July, and was missing the "For
Shifters" category. It appears we were loading
  
  89   06 Nov 2019 12:28 Ben SmithProblem FixedGeneralEvening data taking, purity check> Not sure if the trigger threshold is correctly
set, there is an error:
  
  95   08 Nov 2019 02:21 Ben SmithProblem FixedSoftwareIncreased max waveform length that we can takeI've increased various thresholds so that
we can now take 3000us (3ms) waveforms.
  
  105   09 Nov 2019 07:29 Marco RescignoProblem FixedMIDASthis morning problemfrontend process still alive but slow,
causing lot of rejected triggers.

stopped and restarted the feov1725
  
  114   11 Nov 2019 00:47 Yi / EdgarProblem FixedDigitizerProblem fixed by restarting the VME crate    
  118   11 Nov 2019 23:57 Yi WangProblem FixedTriggerID 117 problem is fixedThe problem reported in ID 117 is somehow
fixed this morning.
  
  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:
  
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