GSI TRB3
TRB3 is an FPGA-TDC board made and sold by GSI. It can achieve ~20ps timing resolution
Documentation
Computer Setup Instructions
Currently have gotten this working on an Opensuse machine.
We setup TRB3 on a private network. So need machine with second ethernet port.
Full instructions to be written
Start-up Instructions
These are the basic instructions to initialize and take data from TRB3, using the GSI DAQ tools.
1) Start the trb3 program and initialize the TRB3
cd /home/tbr3_user/trbsoft/daqtools/users/triumf_trb171 source startup.sh
2) Start webbrowser: In new terminal, do
cd /home/tbr3_user/trbsoft/daqtools/web/ ./cts_gui --noopenxterm --port=1234 --endpoint=0xc001
open webbrowser and go to
3) Start event builder: In new terminal, do
cd trbsoft/daqtools/users/triumf_trb171/ dabc_exe TdcEventBuilder.xml
4) Enable the readout of the channels we want.
i) Go to webpage
http://daq14.triumf.ca:1234/tdc/tdc.htm
ii) Under 'board' set it to 0100.
iii) Then click 'enable' radio button
iv) Then, under 0100 set all the channel groups to on. Should then start seeing triggers for different channels (if we have signals going into channels).
v) Finally, disable the trigger window on the same page. On the section c801 click off and make sure it says 'disabled'. If trigger window is disabled then all triggers are accepted...
5) Setup the analyzer
source ~/trbsoft/trb3/trb3login
(This needs to be run in any terminal where you want to run the go4analysis
6) Create the set of calibration constants for the TDC
cd /home/tbr3_user/trbsoft/daqtools/users/triumf_trb171 rm cal*.cal (remove old calibration files) export CALTRIG=0; export CALMODE=-1; go4analysis -number 100000 -user /data/trb3_data/pulser17342111720.hld
(need to change this to use the hld file that you want to use)
The resulting calibration files are called something like cal_010X.cal
7) Now analyze more events, using those calibration files
rm *root export CALTRIG=0; export CALMODE=0; go4analysis -number 1000000 -user /data/trb3_data/pulser17342111720.hld
now open the resulting root file
root -l Go4AutoSave.root
and use TBrowser() to look at the difference histogram
Useful TRB3 commands
Get IDs for TRB3 FPGAs (1 central FPGA and 4 FPGAs for TDCs):
trb3_user@linux-klyr:~/lindner> trbcmd i 0xffff 0xc001 0xe1000006e937ac28 0x05 0x0100 0x9c000006e937a028 0x00 0x0101 0x91000006e95e8328 0x01 0x0102 0x75000006e9383128 0x02 0x0103 0xe6000006e96e5228 0x03
"Ping of death" somehow ping board to reboot it:
ping -pc001 trb171