CECA: ECA: Q Slope Electronics Calibration
Titles: CECA
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Contact: S. Biller, Oxford.
Revision History:-
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3.02 S. Biller First version.
4.02 R. Van de Water Provide set of production titles files.
Add ECA diff test control.
Major extension for validation.
Titles Files
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eca_control.dat
Verification
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Description
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This bank contains Electronics Calibration (ECA) control of Q Slope
Calibration.
Data Words
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Data types: B(bit), I, F, D(double), H(hollerith 4 char)
Fixed length Database Header. See titles_dbhdr.html
Word Mnemonic [symbolic command] Description
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KCECA...
1 I 1 = Q Slope, 2 = T Slope, 3 = Pedestal
2 I First and Last Crate Number (0 to 18)
3 I First and Last Crate Number (0 to 18)
4 F Tolerance: Num sigmas of ABSOLUTE Q/T values from
overall avg to determine whether to tag channel as
"questionable"
5 F Tolerance: Num sigmas of RELATIVE Q/T values from
overall avg to determine whether to tag channel as
"questionable"
6 F Spare
7 F Spare
8 F Tolerance: Min & Max slopes determining "bad" Q_HS Slope
9 F Tolerance: Min & Max slopes determining "bad" Q_HS Slope
10 F Tolerance: Min & Max slopes determining "bad" Q_HL Slope
11 F Tolerance: Min & Max slopes determining "bad" Q_HL Slope
12 F Tolerance: Min & Max slopes determining "bad" Q_LX Slope
13 F Tolerance: Min & Max slopes determining "bad" Q_LX Slope
14 F DAQ to pe conversion constants
15 F DAQ to pe conversion constants
16 F DAQ to ns Conversion constants
17 F DAQ to ns Conversion constants
18 F DAQ to ns Conversion constants
19 F DAQ to ns Conversion constants
20 I (1) Short or
(2) Long summary output distributions
21 I (1) Normal linear fit to Q's or
(2) Force fit through pedestal
Pedestal Validation Parameters
22 F QHS Tolerances: lower median
23 F upper median
24 I width
25 I abs. diff
26 F QHL Tolerances: lower median
27 F upper median
28 I . width
29 I . abs. diff
30 F QLX Tolerances: lower median
31 F upper median
32 I . width
33 I . abs. diff
34 F TAC Tolerances: lower median
35 F upper median
36 I . width
37 I . abs. diff
38 I (1) Do or (2) Don't produce CMOS droop histograms
Pedestal/TSlope Common Parameters
39 I (1) Do or (2) Don't dump all pedestal/tslope events to
log file,
40 I and (1) Sorted or (2) Unsorted
TSlope Validation Parameters, for 31 injection points
41 F Tolerance: Min.,
42 F Max.,
43 F & Abs. Max. Diff for x-cubed coeff (cubic fit)
44 F Tolerance: Min.,
45 F Max.,
46 F & Abs. Max. Diff for x-squared coeff (cubic fit)
47 F Tolerance: Min.,
48 F Max.,
49 F & Max_Diff for slope coeff (cubic fit)
50 I Min. acceptable no. of TSteps used in cubic fit
51 I Tolerance on step-by-step width check
52 I Min. no. of bad widths in a given cell for cell to be
flagged
53 I Min. acceptable no. of events returned per TStep
54 I Min. no of TSteps which failed nevents check for cell
to be flagged
55 I Min. no. of suspicious TSteps for cell to be flagged
56 F Tolerance: ChiSq tolerance
57 F and abs. tolerance on point-by-point residual
58 I Min. number of bad residuals for cell to be flagged
(TAC jump test)
59 I Min acceptable no. of events returned per TStep for that
TStep to be used in fit
Pedestal Overall Tolerances
60 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed 0ev test
61 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed lt160 ev test
62 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed board ID check
63 I Max. acceptable no. flagged chs.: QHS
64 I QHL
65 I QLX
66 I TAC
67 F Min. and
68 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on QHS pedestals
69 F Min. and
70 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on QHL pedestals
71 F Min. and
72 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on QLX pedestals
73 F Min. and
74 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on TAC pedestals
75 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on widths: QHS
76 F QHL
77 F QLX
78 F TAC
79 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on absolute diffs: QHS
80 F QHL
81 F QLX
82 F TAC
83 I Max. acceptable total flagged channels
TSlope Overall Tolerances
84 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed board ID checks
85 I Max. acceptable no. chs that had 0ev
86 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed no. events per point
test
87 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed width
88 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed no. points in fit test
89 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed no. suspicious
points test
90 I Max. acceptable no. chs that failed TAC jump test
91 I Max. acceptable no. flagged cubic
92 I quadratic
93 I linear fit parameters
94 F Min. and
95 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on cubic coeff
96 F Min. and
97 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on quadratic coeff
98 F Min.
99 F and Max. acceptable 1/2-crate average on linear coeff
100 F Max. acceptable 1/2-crate avg on abs. diffs for cubic
101 F quadratic
102 F linear coeff
103 I Max. acceptable total flagged channels
104 I Perform ECA difference test (0= yes, 1= no)
Can also disable difference test by setting run UC bit
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