MCE firmware
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Critical Notes
- Always cleanly reset the MCE after a power-up or a reconfiguration! If not, MCE communication with the PC or Sync Box may not work.
> mce_reset_clean
- After an mce_reset, not all of the DAC outputs are set to zero. In addition, values written to RAM-based registers are not reset. A full reconfiguration is required for a proper reset.
> rs psc cycle_pow 1 > mce_reset_clean
MCE Firmware Releases
Setting the permissions on firmware files uploaded to the folder above:
> ssh phas.ubc.ca > cd ~mce/public_html/mcedocs/firmware > chmod o+r rc_*.pof
- MCE Firmware File Conversions. [sof,pof,jic,jam].
Recommended versions of firmware, and lists of compatible firmware files across cards:
Revision information on the firmware for each card:
- Clock Card (CC)
- Readout Card (RC) Rev. A/B
- Readout Card (RC) Rev. C/D
- Bias Card (BC)
- Address Card (AC)
- Power-Supply Unit Controller (PSUC) Rev. 1
- Power-Supply Unit Controller (PSUC) Rev. 2
MCE Features and How-To Guides
- Data Acquisition
- Readout Card
- Data Modes
- Filtered Data & the Digital 4-pole Butterworth Low-pass Filter
- Raw 50 MHz Data
- Flux Jumping
- FSFB Clamping Commands (i.e. To Prevent Unlocked Pixels from Ramping)
- Clock Card
- Remote Firmware Update
- Internal Commands
- Arbitrary Waveform Generator (i.e. Maximum Length Sequences for Complex Impedance Measurements)
- Ramp Generator
- Temperature Sensing
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
