MCE firmware
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. 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
- Readout Card Data Modes
- Digital 4-pole Butterworth Low-pass filter
- Flux jumping
- Raw-mode readout
- High rate acquisition
- Fast SQ2 Feedback and TES Biasing with an Address Card
- The STOP Command
MCE Firmware Bugs/ Features Under Development
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
