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  28   10 Apr 2019 05:40 ThomasRoutineGeneralGeneral work - day 3 at CERNSeveral points:

1) Gave a series of tutorial on DAQ to DS
  
  27   08 Apr 2019 08:31 ThomasRoutineGeneralGeneral work - day 1 at CERNNotes on day:

1) Fixed the problem with the network interfaces.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  24   28 Mar 2019 02:18 PierreConfigurationTriggerTest    
  23   27 Mar 2019 14:04 PierreConfigurationTriggerTime stamp syncThe 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 PierreConfigurationHardwareCERN setupFound that the Trigger out from the CB is
on output1
Trigger / Not used
  
  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
  
  20   11 Mar 2019 12:30 ThomasRoutineTriggerNew chronobox firmware; run start/stop implementeda) Bryerton implemented new version of the
firmware.  New features:
  
  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.
  
  18   06 Mar 2019 15:10 Thomas, PierreRoutineTriggerSetup of chronoboxSummary of setup of chronobox on network (mostly
done by Pierre):
  
  17   06 Mar 2019 14:16 ThomasRoutineGeneralRetested the chronobox trigger logicI retested the chronobox trigger generation:

1) Inserting moderate sized pulse into 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
  
  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.
  
  14   19 Feb 2019 16:26 Pierre-A.ConfigurationGeneralOverall HW configurationFor Reference,

I put a simple schematic for the
Trigger/Run control.
 ds-proto-architecture-02.pdf 
  13   13 Feb 2019 16:45 PierreProblemHardwareA3818 from MarcoChecking again Marco's A3818:
- Port #2 (third from top of card) is acting
up.
  
  12   08 Feb 2019 12:08 ThomasProblemHardwareInstalled Marco's A3818; didn't workI installed Marco's A3818 PCIe card.  Didn't
seem to work.  I got communication errors
talking to link 2.  The
  
  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):
  
  10   06 Feb 2019 14:12 PierreConfigurationHardwareExtended Trigger Time Tag (ETTT)Confirmed this ETTT configuration is working.

                     ETTT Enabled [22..21]
  
  9   31 Jan 2019 15:18 PierreConfigurationTriggerTrigger rateSomehow the trigger rate was not matching
the trigger source.
Find out that Link 3 was not collecting and
  
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