NQSH: NCD Shaper Header record
Titles: NQSH: NCD Shaper Header record
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Contact: Mark Howe / Jan Wouters
Revision History:-
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2003-02-11 (jmw) - Original
2003-02-19 (jmw) - Added mode field.
2003-11-04 (gac) - renamed first two words to match NQRH bank description
2003-11-17 (gac) - renamed word prefix NCDS -> NQSH and reorganized
2003-11-22 (jmw) - Moved NQSH_MODE to word 7 since board option not channel option.
2004-02-08 (jmw) - Added word 0 - Num of shaper records.
2004-10-29 (krr) - Version 2 -- Added NQSH_ONLINE_MASK and NQSH_SCALER_MASK
Titles Files
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Verification
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Version 2 verified on 10-29-04 by LCS and KRR
Description
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Bank Number: Version 2
Written out at the beginning of a run by SHaRC.
The shaper data is acquired by 6 shapers each with 8 channels.
The data from each shaper channel consists of a single 12 bit value.
The following parameters define basic information for one shaper.
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)
Word Type Mnemonic Description
1 I NQSH_NUM_SH Number of shaper records that follow.
2 I NQSH_VERS NQSH bank version number
3 I NQSH_SH_NUMBER ORCA assinged board number (0-15)
4 I NQSH_SH_HW Hardware address (0x8000 - 0x8f00)
5 I NQSH_ID Shaper board id.
6 I NQSH_TYPE Shaper type (0 = Test,
1 = emit, 2 = ncd,
3 = time tag)
7 I NQSH_REV Shaper board revision.
8 I NQSH_MODE Mode for acquisition. Bits:-
B0 Continuous
B1 Enable scalers
B2 Multiboard
9 I NQSH_ONLINE_MASK Mask (in decimal) of which shaper channels are online and enabled
10 I NQSH_SCALER_MASK Mask (in decimal) of which cahnnel's scalers are enabled
11 I NQSH_SPARE Spare word
12 I NQSH_NUM_CHAN The number of shaper channels (=8)
13 I NQSH_REC_SIZE The size of the following repeating block (=3)
14 I NQSH_REC Base start address for the following repeating record
i i = NQSH_REC + (n-1)*NQSH_REC_SIZE Start (n = 1 to NQSH_NUM_CHAN)
i+0 I NQSH_THRES_DAC Threshold written to DAC.
i+1 I NQSH_THRES_ADC Threshold read back from ADC.
i+2 I NQSH_GAINS Gains.
Words 1 to i+2 of final channel repeat for each shaper card.
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