ALCT/TMB/RAT Test Stand at CERN

1. ALCT/TMB/RAT Test Stand at CERN • Setting up complete duplicate of the ALCT-TMB-RAT test stand at CERN. • Setting up computer, crate controller today. • David Saltzberg is coming to CERN on Sunday with the remaining equipment. • Just need to plug in some things, move rails around on the rear of the crate (to accommodate RAT board)---Should be done by Monday if things go okay.

2. UCLA TMB Test Software • Discussed with Karoly and Jinghua about the best approach to adapting the UCLA TMB test software • Both were very much in favor of extracting and porting selected components of the software into the emuLib system. Shouldn’t be a problem.. • Hoping to do a very simple port, leaving the UCLA code mostly as-is.. Write a wrapper around needed emulib functions and minimize having to rewrite code. • Right now removing Microsoft Visual C++ components of the software and rewriting with standard C++ libraries. • Starting to work out a basic framework for porting the code.. Identifying what needs to be translated, finding emuLib equivalents. • Starting with muon injection code. Can work on other tools if they’re wanted

3. Muonic timing • Working with Indara, Jason on investigating the problems with ALCT muonic timing. • Issues are more fundamental than just muonic timing.. ALCT-tx windows aren’t being found, muonic timing capabilities have been cannibalized to compensate for this. • Likely conflated issues of software + firmware. Two cases.. maybe related: • 1D-Tx and 1D-Rx window are both found, but the 2D scan fails to find any good spots for certain TOFs. This is a feature of more recent software versions, possibly related to pipeline depth scan. Right now comparing two versions (working + nonworking) of code to track down what change introduced this. Indara reports that in these cases, a good working window can found based on the 1D scans, despite the 2D scan failing.. • No 1D-Tx window is found for certain TOFs. • Firmware? Firmware+software interaction? • Will keep testing..

4. Extra slides for Jason/Yuriy …

5. vme_tst_v7 Main Menu 21: Sequencer State/Seq Debug/Buffer Queue/L1A Queue 22: MPC Accept 23: ALCT+CFEB Loopback Tests 24: Boot Register Test 25: RAT Automatic full test: Requires TMB+backplane 26: Scope snapshot of current system 27: Trim Vcore or Vtt 28: TMB Unjam, try to clear a jammed TMB 29: Program Xilinx PROMs 30: JTAG PROM file utilities 31: VME PROM file utilities 32: Check U76 JTAG Bus-Hold circuit 33: VME register dump/compare 34: Load VME registers from dump file 35: Playback event dump to display header and raw hits 36: Playback event dump into TMB, compare result 37: Read/Write Phaser Delays 38: Fire VME sysreset 39: VME bus contention test 40: GTX Optical Receiver Status 1: TMB Slot [%2.2i] adr=%6.6X\n",islot,base_adr); 2: Read ID Register 3: Read Boot Register 4: Peek/Poke Address 5: Read Trigger/Error/Discard counters 6: Read/Write 3D3444 Delays with State Machine 7: Hard Reset TMB 8: Hard Reset ALCT 9: Read DMB Raw Hits RAM 10: Walking 1 Tests 11: Read ADC+Status Register 12: Read FPGA and User PROM IDcodes+RAT 13: Read Hardware Serial Numbers 14: Crate Scan 15: Read Loopback Backplane JTAG Chain 16: Trigger Tests 17: MPC Tests 18: TMB Automatic full test: Loop-back backplane 19: RAT Tests 20: TTC Command/FMM Status

6. Submenu 16: Trigger Tests TMB Trigger Test Menu: 1: Inject ALCT 2: Inject CLCT 3: Inject ALCT+CLCT 4: Inject ALCT+CLCT + readout 5: Fire ext_trig + L1A to ALCT + readout ALCT RAM 6: Fire CLCT ext trig linked with ALCT ext trig 7: Fire CLCT pattern injector, check CLCT0 8: External trigger ALCT+CLCT 9: External trigger ALCT 10: External trigger CLCT 11: extTrig ALCT+CLCT with GTL pulser 12: extTrig ALCT+CLCT with GTL pulser check CRC 13: Check bxn reset and increment 14: Fire L1A-only event. check readout 15: Fire VME trigger + readout