New DAQ at H8 Speranza Falciano INFN Rome H8 Workshop 2-3 April 2001

Outline of the session S.Falciano(15’) Testbeam DAQ configuration and status of the hardware E.Pasqualucci, F.Petrucci(30’ + 10’) Status of Readout and DAQ software S.Falciano (15’) View on the future : 2002 and beyond

Proposal to use DAQ-1 at H8 Presented at the Muon SG during December 2000 Muon Week Document written by INFN groups and discussed with several people Recent investigation with DAQ-1 and TileCal groups to define a possible scenario (hardware, software and milestones) to have a system running for next summer (2 nd half of July)

Experimental setup (1) Hodo Tracker BIL/BOS/... Tilted chambers Endcap Tracker Fixed MDT test site

Experimental setup (2) Hodoscope : 6 strips, 10 cm each, 60 x 100 cm 2 total size, 6x2x2 channels, CAMAC ADC and TDC Tracker ; 96 channels readout by KLOE TDC Fixed chamber test site : hosts the MDT chamber under test (e.g. BIL is 1 m x 2.6 m, 288 channels readout by CSM) 3 MDT tilted chambers to reproduce ATLAS layout Maybe a 2nd tracker installed among the tilted chambers

Summary of requirements Readout the following detectors: –A trigger hodoscope –One or two trackers –One MDT chamber (under test) –Three tilted chambers CAMAC and VME electronics MDT ROD not yet final but near-end ROD only Event size is about bit words Trigger rate is 1-6 kHz 200 events/spill with RD13

Preliminary considerations Verify that we can purchase or get on loan the required hardware to develop the system in due time : –Share among the partecipating institutes a common budget for H8 –Profit of the hardware already purchased for TDAQ muon application and of what the CERN-DAQ group makes available to us for this exercise Verify there is sufficient manpower for software : –Core group from INFN plus other volonteers and, of course, help from the DAQ-1 group

Process Configuration (Monitoring) disk / NW CORBOSLINK IOM: TRGEBIFROB Event Sampler Run Control Transaction Server Dataflow GUI LDAQ User Monitoring Task Monitoring Factory “Dataflow” PC “Online” PC = Process

PCI based CORBO Trigger Module HW: microEnable + mezzanine: 4 NIM trigger inputs + 4 NIM busy outputs subset of VME CORBO functionality: event counting, busy logic & interrupts software: – library which is API compatible with VME CORBO library. Unified library. –a driver for handling CORBO PCI interrupts under Linux –test & diagnostic programs –see TN 161 performance – interrupt handling: ~ 10 us on average but not “hard” realtime (Linux) applications –triggering of TRGEBIFROB on a PC, provide burst information Jorgen Petersen EP/ATD

TRGEBIFROB (preliminary) TRGEBIFROB on a PC. SLINK input. TRG input emulated: L2R /ROI/L2A = 100/10/1. No output. Non-optimised application Jorgen Petersen EP/ATD

TRGEBIFROB (preliminary) TRGEBIFROB on a PC. CORBO + SLINK input. 100% accepts. No output. Application not optimised. Controlled via LDAQ + Dataflow GUI. Jorgen Petersen EP/ATD

Output to Network (EB) PC Farm in “Lab2”: –450 MHz PCs –Gigabit Ethernet applications: –trigger and input emulated, 1kbyte fragments, 100% L2A – not optimised results (event rate): –with DFM: 7.8 kHz ~ 10 Mbyte/s –without DFM: “TileCal” Mode 12.7 kHz ~ 16 Mbyte/s ROS / PC Linux (TRGEBIFROB) DFM SFI Jorgen Petersen EP/ATD

Output to disk (local recording) PC equipped with SCSI 17 Mbyte/s applications: –CORBO trigger, SLINK input 100% L2A – not optimised –system controlled by LDAQ results (event rate): –15 kHz ~ disk performance ROS / PC Linux (TRGEBIFROB) SCSI Disk CORBOSLINK Jorgen Petersen EP/ATD

Event Monitoring “Local” monitoring ( I.e. event monitoring on the Dataflow PC) –CORBO + SLINK input ( 1kbyte fragments), no output, all events accepted –event rate: 16 kHz (compared to 35 kHz) with a monitoring rate of 8500 events/s “Online” monitoring –as above, but with remote PC running the online monitoring –event rate: 30 kHz (compared to 35 kHz) with a monitoring rate of about 400 events/s –event rate: 34 kHz (compared to 35 kHz) with a monitoring rate of about 50 events/s Jorgen Petersen EP/ATD

Selected hardware VME detector crates (Hodoscope+Tracker, MDTs) : –2 RIOs, 2 CORBOs, KLOE TDCs, CAMAC TDCs and ADCs, 2 CSMs, 2 S-links (readout of beam instrumentation and chambers) –NIM electronics and CAMAC-VME interface (trigger and CAMAC) PC replacing ROC : –1 PC for Event Building, housing 2 PCI/S-link interfaces for data input, 1 PCI Interrupt generator (u-Enable based) 2 PCs to distribute : –the Backend software –the application software (Monitoring) Local network : –switched LAN to avoid access from outside which slows down data acquisition

Shopping list for 2001 Detector crates: 2 RIOs(crate contrl.) 12 kCHFx2 = 24 kCHF 2 S-Links 5.3 kCHFx2= 10.6 kCHF 2 CORBOs = no cost (?) 1 CMAC/VME I/F = no cost 4 CSMs= ? ROS emulator and PCs : 1 PCI_CORBO= DM 2 PCs of industrial type (12 PCI slots) = 8 kCHF 1 PC (possibly rack mounted)= 2 kCHF Infrastructure : 1 switch FastEthernet(24 ports)= 3 kCHF 1 Hub= no cost (?) Total = kCHF + CSMs

Schedule and milestones (1) End of March 2001 : –Move CSM readout from Digital CPU to CES RIO2 –Being based on TileCal software, workout what is requested for the the two ROD Crates. –Take a decision on which DAQ version we shall use (PC or TileCal). Accordingly, purchase the necessary hardware. End of April 2001 : –Get at least one ROD Crate working (software plus hardware) either at CERN (DAQ-1 lab) or in Rome –Get experience with ROC or PC software.

Schedule and milestones (2) End of May 2001 : –test full system in a minimal configuration at CERN (DAQ- 1 lab) June 2001 : –work on Backend software and user specific software (monitoring, etc.) July 2001 : –use the system at H8 Autumn 2001 : –Foresee the integration of MROD-1 prototype