CRON: Crate/Card/Channel Status
Titles: CRON
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NB The CRON/VRLY/VTHR banks are now obsolete.
They have been replaced by the DQCH/DQCR banks
Contact: Mark Howe (University of Washington)
Revision History:-
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3.01 D. Wark First version.
3.02 M. Howe Complete redesign to bring into line with DAQ.
Titles Files
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ccc_info.dat
Verification
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Description
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Contains status of each crate (on/off-line), each card (on/off-line) and each
channel (en/dis-abled)
IMPORTANT: In all the tables below, the ordering is Crate/Card/Channel NOT
Card/Crate/Channel so as to avoid wasting space.
Data Words
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Fixed length Database Header. See titles_dbhdr.html
Data types: B(bit), I, F, D(double), H(hollerith 4 char)
KCRON_
1 I ENABLED =0 if bank to be ignored (=1 for DAQ data)
2 I NUM_CRATE Number of crates (=19 for DAQ data))
3 I CRATE_TBL Start of crate table (=21 for DAQ data)
4 I CARD_TBL Start of card table (=40 for DAQ data)
5 I CHAN_TBL Start of channel table (=344 for DAQ data)
6..20 I Spare words
Next comes a crate table with 1 word for each of NUM_CRATE crates
CRATE_TBL
+i_crate I = 0 off-line, =1 on-line for i_crate (=0..18 for DAQ)
Next comes a card table with 1 word for each of NUM_CRATE*16 channels
Define logical crate card (lcc) = 16*i_crate + i_card
CARD_TBL
+ lcc I = 0 off-line, =1 on-line for lcc
Next come a channel table with 1 word for each of NUM_CRATE*16 cards
CHAN_TBL
+ lcc I Bit mask for card lcc:-
Bit i_chan set if i_chan channel is enabled
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