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| + | ** [[ High rate acquisition | Fast Data Acquisition (i.e. at the Frame Rate)]] | ||
| + | ** [[ The STOP Command ]] | ||
| + | ** [[ How to Configure Which Readout Cards Report Data ]] | ||
| + | ** [[ How to Read a Column at the Frame Rate ]] | ||
| + | ** [[ Rectangle Mode Data ]] | ||
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** [[ Data mode | Data Modes ]] | ** [[ Data mode | Data Modes ]] | ||
** [[ Digital 4-pole Butterworth Low-pass filter | Filtered Data & the Digital 4-pole Butterworth Low-pass Filter]] | ** [[ Digital 4-pole Butterworth Low-pass filter | Filtered Data & the Digital 4-pole Butterworth Low-pass Filter]] | ||
** [[ Raw-mode readout | Raw 50 MHz Data ]] | ** [[ Raw-mode readout | Raw 50 MHz Data ]] | ||
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** [[ Flux jumping | Flux Jumping]] | ** [[ Flux jumping | Flux Jumping]] | ||
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* Address Card | * Address Card | ||
Revision as of 13:18, 9 June 2009
Contents
Critical Notes
Quartus II 8.0 and 8.0 + sp1 generate .pof files that seem to program the configuration device, but do not work after a power-cycle. When generating .pof files, do not use these versions of Quartus II. For more information, refer to the Quartus 8.0 .pof Generation Bug page.
Use Quartus II 7.2, or 6.1, or older to generate .pof files.
Always cleanly reset the MCE after a power-up or a reconfiguration! If you do not, MCE communication with the PC or Sync Box may not work.
> mce_reset_clean
Note that after a reset, not all of the DAC outputs are reset to zero. In addition, values written to RAM-based registers are not reset. To reset these registers, a full reconfiguration is required.
> rs psc cycle_pow 1 > mce_reset_clean
MCE Firmware Releases
You can download all the MCE firmware configuration files here. When copying files to this folder, make sure that that they are readable:
> ssh phas.ubc.ca > cd ~mce/public_html/mcedocs/firmware > chmod o+r rc_*.pof
Versions of firmware running at each telescope are listed here:
Information on the firmware for each card can be found through the links below:
- Clock Card (CC)
- Readout Card (RC)
- Bias Card (BC)
- Address Card (AC)
- Power-Supply Unit Controller (PSUC)
MCE Features and How-To Guides
- Data Acquisition
- Readout Card
- Clock Card
MCE Firmware Bugs/ Features Under Development
- This section has been moved to the Internal MCE Wiki.
Hardware Peripherals
Software Tools
All that you need to know about logging into our CVS repository can be found here:
We decided (sadly) NOT to migrate from CVS to SVN, if we ever do here is some information:
- SVN Manual
- Accessing the SVN Repository
- SVN Commit Guidelines
- SVN Basic Operations
