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Starting up the "TFC Startup Panel"
The startup panel may be directly
launched from the PVSS console via the Graphics Editor. Open the panel "lbFwTFC/lbFwTFC_Start.pnl"
in mode "RunTime".
If you are running the project in the
background or you prefer to have a command to launch the run control you
may create an icon (Windows) or alias (Linux) with the following
command:
- Windows: <PVSS_path>\PVSS00NV.exe
-data <PVSS.computer.name> -event <PVSS.computer.name> -config <project_path>\config\config
-p lbFwTFC_Start.pnl
- Linux: PVSS00ui -data <PVSS.computer.name>
-event <PVSS.computer.name> -config <project_path>/config/config -p
lbFwTFC/lbFwTFC_Start.pnl
The -event and -data parameters are not
needed in case you run the panels on the same machine as the project
itself.
Remotely Controlling the TFC system
You may have PVSS running on one computer
and startup the control panels from anywhere provided the network
allows. It is possible provided PVSS is installed on the remote computer
as well and that the TFC control project has been installed. However,
the project should not be started. It is sufficient to do one of the two
commands given above to start the panel and specifying the node on which
the PVSS project is running.
Launching the "TFC Run Control"
(picture)
Please, always exit the panels with
the "Exit" button when quitting or before stopping the PVSS project.
There is a risk otherwise that your ODIN is not released which means
that next time you try to take control it is owned by your previous
session. Restarting the FSM in the PVSS control usually takes you out of
this situation.
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Scroll the list until you find your
ODIN and select it.
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Click on "Start
TFC Control". This
will launch the TFC Run Control, give you control of ODIN through
the FSM.
In order to take control of ODIN you must use the "pad lock" next to
the run bar to "take" it. Depending a bit on the previous state, the FSM should either be in
state "Run Not Ready" or "Run Ready".
General description of the TFC Run
Control Panel (picture)
The run is controlled from the "TFC Run
Control Panel" using the main run bar at the top. Depending on the
current states, different actions are available to control the system.
For instance, "Acknowledge Error" will take you out of a detected error,
"Get Ready" in state "Run Not Ready" will enable/disable the functions
you have selected on the right hand side of the window. "Start Run" in
"Run Ready" will start the triggers. Once the run is running you may
pause it or directly stop it etc.
The six buttons in the "Initialization"
box have immediate effect and are rather self-explanatory. The first
button to click on each time the "TFC_server" has been restarted on ODIN
is "Subscribe Counters". This will give a list of all counters and
status registers to the TFC_server that it should update on a specific
interval (set to every 3s). If the board is configured you should see
the Orbit counter and the Bunch ID counter running. If they don't it
means that the DIM connection is not established. "System Reset" will
reset all registers of ODIN. The actions on a "Soft Reset" are currently
only partially defined. In principle it resets all functions without
clearing the control registers in the board. "Initialize" will load all
registers of ODIN according to the settings currently stored in PVSS.
"Counter Reset" will reset all counters in ODIN and "Counter Update"
will simply update all counter and status registers. It is not really
needed if you have subscribed to the counters. Some of the buttons
are deactivated/activated depending on the state of the run.
The "Statistics and status" part shows
you the main activity of ODIN. The box L0 trigger allows you to
enable/disable the different type of functions that are related to the
L0 trigger and the "Commands" box allow you to enable/disable the
different type of command transmission. All function are configured in
detail in the "ODIN Configuration" panel which you may open by clicking
on the ODIN button in the "Configuration" box.
The "Load Recipe" and "Save Recipe"
allows you to save recipes of type "All", that is they may have setting
for all registers in ODIN. The recipes will be stored with a fixed
prefix and a part which is specified by you. Currently there is no
function defined by JCOP to delete recipes. It may be done manually in
the data point. Clicking on "Load" in the "Load Recipe" panel will write
all the settings directly to the board. Since the recipes of type "All"
takes some time to load the run goes into a state "Run configuring..."
to show when it is ready.
General description of the ODIN
Configuration Panel (picture)
This panel includes five pages on which
the different functions may be defined. The configuration parameters are
grouped and applied together. You may also load and save sub-recipes of
sub-types corresponding to the functional group of parameters (picture). This is
handy if you are only changing a few settings in a sequence of runs
instead of each time reload the recipe of type "All". However, you must
have loaded a base recipe of type all before.
Each box with related functional
parameters has two fields to for the values of each parameter. The
greyed out field (disabled) or "LED" show the current setting in the
board. The left white field or tick box (enabled) is where you may
change a single setting directly. However, since all the values of a
functional group are applied together when you click on the button
"Apply", all the fields must be filled in. In order not to do this by
hand there is a "Current All" button at the bottom which will fill in
all fields with the current values in one go. You may now edit one or
several values and apply them. The button "Apply All" will apply all
setting of all the functional groups.
The button "Update All" is useful to make
sure that what is stored in the PVSS datapoint and thus shown in the
panels is really what is in the registers of the board.
The expert panel gives you access to all
control resources on a physical register level.
The tab "Resets/Counters" is not to be
used in sub-detector tests.
You may change a single setting directly
without using recipes.
Single Shots Panel
The single shots allows you to fire off
any function a single time manually by clicking on a button. The run
must be running in order for the request to be accepted but the function
must not be enabled in the Run Control panel. Thus, you may fire off any
a single shot of any type while any number of functions are running on a
periodic basis or while they are all disabled.
Exporting and
Importing recipes stored in the Cache
The Recipe Cache is stored in a data
point in the PVSS database. You may use the PVSS Ascii Manager to export
and later import the datapoints and values (not data point types!) of
data point type _FwRecipeCache |
