ALPHA

ALPHA AD-5 at CERN

Links

• ALPHA-2 MIDAS: https://alphacpc05.cern.ch
• ALPHA-g MIDAS: https://alphacpc05.cern.ch/agdaq/
• nodeinfo: https://alphacpc05.cern.ch/gonodeinfo/gonodereport.html
• zfs quota report: https://alphacpc05.cern.ch/zfsquotareport/zfsquota.html
• ganglia: https://alphacpc05.cern.ch/ganglia/
• elog: https://alphacpc05.cern.ch/elog/alpha/
• AgWiki: https://daq00.triumf.ca/AgWiki/
• old alpha-g elog: https://daq00.triumf.ca/elog-alphag-old/alphag/

ALPHA-2

Rebuild midas:

• cd ~/packages/midas; make clean; make cmake -j
• restart mlogger, mserver, mhttpd, lazylogger

Rebuild frontends:

• fevme: ssh alphavme04, cd online/vme, make clean, make, restart fevme
• SVD bias P.S. fecaenr14xxet.exe: cd packages/frontends/fecaen14xxet, make clean, make, restart fecaen_hvps01
• felabview: no update
• super_felabiew, feXSequencer: cd online/src, make clean, make, not sure how to install to ../bin and restart.
• feGEM: cd online/feGEM, make clean, make,

ALPHA-3 SVD Upgrade

Existing ALPHA-2 SVD

• VME-TTC board schematics [[File::ALPHA_TTC_20091105.pdf]]
• VME-TTC firmware schematics, main FPGA ALPHA_TTC_20091105.pdf
• VME-TTC firmware schematics, trigger FPGA ALPHA_TTC_Trigger2.pdf
• VME-TTC firmware schematics, TA singal conditioner [[ALPHA_TTC_SignalConditioner.pdf
• VME-TTC manual https://bitbucket.org/expalpha/ttc_firmware/src/master/alphaTTC.txt

Clock distribution:

IO32 internal osc (IO32 has no external trigger input) -> 2x LEMO NIM output 20 MHz ->
-> TTC1
-> TTC FP_Ext_TrigInput1 (VETO_IN LEMO1A) -> 20 MHz PLL -> PLL1_20MHz -> mux -> mux_clk -> pll_20MHz -> (ADC clock LEMO5A)
-> VF48 20 MHz clock daisy chain, 4 VF48 modules
-> VF48 clock input -> PLL 20MHz-to-60MHz -> 60 MHz ADC sampling clock
same thing repeats for the 2nd TTC
-> TTC2

TTC functions:

• Downloading VA1TA configurations (BOOT control)
• Control of calibration pulser DACs
• Sequencing the readout of the VA1TA analog multiplexor and VF48 trigger
• Processing VA1TA TA outputs and generation of NIM trigger outputs