MCE usage
From MCEWiki
MCE commanding
- mce_cmd - application for commanding the MCE.
- MCE Commands - especially those commands supported directly by hardware/firmware
- Virtual cards
- Python commanding library
Application Notes
- SQUID array setup
- Array setup programs - software
- Characterization and Locking SQUIDs with Multi-Channel Electronics [PDF] (Jun. 07, 2005)
- "Functional Description of Read-out Electronics for Time-Domain Multiplexed Bolometers for Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Astronomy" [PDF] (vol. 151, no. 3-4, J. Low-Temp Phys, May 2008)
- "Automated SQUID tuning procedure for kilo-pixel arrays of TES bolometers on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope" [PDF] (SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation Conf, Jun. 2008)
- Tuning Algorithm for ACT SQUIDs - poster [PDF]
- MCE-Cryostat Diagram - cartoons of squid chain setup, servo loop calculations, and word-sizes [PDF]
- Data acquisition
- Data Modes
- Filtered Data & the Digital 4-pole Butterworth Low-pass Filter
- Raw 50 MHz Data
- Rectangle Mode Data - recommended mode for high-rate acquisition
- Fast Data Acquisition - high-rate acquisition without rectangle mode (deprecated)
- The STOP Command
- Dirfile support - set up MAS to write dirfiles directly
- Data files
- Python data and runfile modules - mce_data.py)
- IDL data and runfile scripts
- MCE flat-file format
- Runfile format v2
- Internal commanding
- Internal Commands - notes on internal command implementation.
- Ramp Generator
- Arbitrary Waveform Generator -- for maximum length sequences and complex impedance measurements (CC v5.0.3+)
- Fast switching of the SQ2 feedback
- MCE servo control
- Flux Jumping
- FSFB Clamping Commands -- to prevent unlocked pixels from ramping
