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Introduction Our system SunSort & ROOT Other supported electronics Conclusion MIDAS VME DAQ Laboratory for Nuclear Physics, RBI L. Prepolec November 5, 2011 L. Prepolec MIDAS VME DAQ
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Introduction Our system SunSort & ROOT Other supported electronics Conclusion
MIDAS VME DAQLaboratory for Nuclear Physics, RBI
L. Prepolec
November 5, 2011
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Overview
1 Introduction
2 Our systemHardwareSoftware
3 SunSort & ROOT
4 Other supported electronics
5 Conclusion
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Important
The main goal of this presentation is to describe the DAQcurrently used in the LNP at RBI.The author’s knowledge of MIDAS is limited to experience withthe existing system.
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Introduction
background: nuclear structure groupexotic nucleinuclear astrophysics
large–area segmented silicon detectors (hundreds of channels)
University of Birmingham NP group (M. Freer)
acquire compatible system (N. Soic)
took a decade
completed two years ago, including DAQ
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Hardware
Our system
based on the MIDAS (http://npg.dl.ac.uk/MIDAS)
hardware componentsWiener UEP 6021 VME430 6U crate (21 slot)Motorola MVME 2434 VME processor moduleSAC (Silena 9418 Acquisition Control module)SlLENA 9418/6-V 32 ch. 12 bit ADCSun Fire x4100 M2, OS Solaris 10
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Introduction Our system SunSort & ROOT Other supported electronics Conclusion
Hardware
Our system
based on the MIDAS (http://npg.dl.ac.uk/MIDAS)hardware components
Wiener UEP 6021 VME430 6U crate (21 slot)Motorola MVME 2434 VME processor moduleSAC (Silena 9418 Acquisition Control module)SlLENA 9418/6-V 32 ch. 12 bit ADCSun Fire x4100 M2, OS Solaris 10
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Introduction Our system SunSort & ROOT Other supported electronics Conclusion
Hardware
Our system
based on the MIDAS (http://npg.dl.ac.uk/MIDAS)hardware components
Wiener UEP 6021 VME430 6U crate (21 slot)Motorola MVME 2434 VME processor moduleSAC (Silena 9418 Acquisition Control module)SlLENA 9418/6-V 32 ch. 12 bit ADCSun Fire x4100 M2, OS Solaris 10
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Hardware
Wiener UEP 6021 VME430 6U crate
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Motorla MVME 2434 VME processor module
350 MHz MPC750(big endian!)
256MB ECC SDRAM
10/100Mb/s Ethernetinterface
debugging serial port
in our case runs MIDASon LynxOS
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SAC (Silena 9418 Acquisition Control module)
ALTERA MAX CPLD(Complex ProgrammableLogic Device)
triggering ADCs throughfront panel connection
support for bothSilena 9418 and CAENV785 32 ch. 12 bit ADCs
including mixedconfiguration
common trigger for otherunits (TDCs, QDC, etc.)
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Hardware
Silena 9418/6-V ADC
32 channel peak sensing ADC
multi-strecher configuration +high speed conversion module
two “piggy-back” board on themodule
12 bit resolution, 10 µsconversion time
individual rise time protectionand low level thresholds
dynamic range 8V; sliding scale
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Hardware
Sun Fire x4100 M2
fairly standard 1U server
2x Dual-Core AMDOpteron Processor 22182.6 GHz
8 GB DDR2 ECC RAM
2x 146 GB 10000 rpmSAS HDD in HW RAID 1
4x Gb ethernet
redundant power supply,remote mgt.
Solaris 10 certified andpreinstalled
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Software
MIDAS
made by Daresbury lab, written in TCL (script language)
UoB: Sun Workstations (SPARC), today laptops with OpenSolaris (not Linux because of SunSort)
MIDAS in general: Solaris (both SPARC and x86), Linux,Windows)
Motorola VME processor card (MVME 2400 or 5500) + SAC
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Software
MIDAS
boot VME CPU from computer via TFTP
MVME 2400 series: LynxOS starts MIDAS
NFS connection to Tape Server on computer
MIDAS:
Tape Server
Message Logger
ExperimentControl
Online plots
Amp control
SunSort:written by and for CHARISSAcolaborationgraphical user interface works inCDE - serious constraintnot very user friendlyvery fast, has all the data formats weneed
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Data format
partially documentedbyte swappinghex editor, existing code + some timegained full understanding of the formatconversion to ROOT
SunSort & ROOT
“&” is on purposespeed and reliability vs. “mainstream” data analysis toolROOT slow but should pay off in the long runmaintainance of SunSort a bit problematicuse both
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As stated in online documentation (VME hardware only)
MVME 2400 MVME 5500LynxOS Linux
ADC Silena 9418, CAEN V785TDC CAEN V775, V767, V1190, V1290QDC ? V792Ndigital GRT4 and VF48discr. at least one CAEN model works
multiplex. Mesytec MDI2/MTM16 modules
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ProSPECTus Data Acquisition for CAEN V1724 digitizer
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ProSPECTus Data Acquisition for CAEN V1724 digitizer
V1724 8 Channel 14 bit 100 MS/s Digitizer
V1495 General Purpose VME Board
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ProSPECTus Data Acquisition for CAEN V1724 digitizer
V1724 8 Channel 14 bit 100MS/s Digitizer
V1495 General Purpose VMEBoard
+
A2818 PCI CONET Controller
or
A3818 PCI Express CONET2Controller
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a small, tested and working analog acquisition system
192 ADC ch. + 32 QDC ch. (to be tested) (+ collaborators)
Switching to digital?
1. FPGA: trigger
2. digitizers: eliminate NIM electronics (shipping costs)
Crucial
collaborators
funding
time
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Thank you for your attention!
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Thank you for your attention!
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