1. VME Pixel ROD Setup in UW Pixel Lab B050
Jimin Kim
Department of Physics
University of Washington

2. Table of Contents Introduction: Pixel DAQ System
Setup of VME Pixel ROD
Future Plans

3. Introduction DAQ System: Data Acquisition System
General Pixel DAQ Architecture
Modules (FEI3 or FEI4)
ROD (Readout Driver)
ROS (Readout System)
ToT calculation/Event building
Handles Data Transfer/Processing Data
Receives Data with custom designed interface

4. USBPix Readout System Hardware Software Adapter Card Multi I-O Board
Ethernet Cable
Power Cable
Flat Ribbon Cable
Software
STControl (Windows)
TDAQ/IBLDAQ (SLC5)

5. VME Pixel ROD Hardware Software VME Crate Power Supply (Wiener)
SBC (Concurrent Technologies)
ROD 1 and ROD 2
Software
TDAQ 4_00_01
IBLDAQ 0_0_0
Identical DAQ System that is being used at LHC
Supports way more FE modules

6. VME Pixel ROD Architecture
FE Modules
eBOC
ROD
Pixlab05
SBC
TDAQ/IBLDAQ

7. Single Board Computer (VP-CP1/P3X)

8. Read Out Drivers
ROD Revision E 2003
ROD Revision B 2001

9. Unboxing
VME Crate
VME Crate and Power Supply

10. Mounting the Crate/Power Supply
Mounting the RODs and SBC
After Mounting VME and Power Supply

11. Connect Power Cables Unplug powers of the boards
Measured voltage/ compare with user manual

12. Initial Booting of SBC
Also connected Keyboard and Mouse

13. B050 VME Pixel Rod Setup

14. Installation of SLC5/i686 Installation of SLC5 i686
Configure users and passwords

15. Establish Second Local Network
Establish Second Local Network between
Pixlab 05
Single Board Computer
Ethernet Port
Pixlab 05
File Sharing/ Network Booting
Second Network Card
Single Board Computer

16. Establish Network Booting
Shares files with SBC with Pixlab 05 (configure files to be nfs - shared)
Installation of DHCP, NFS, and TFTP in a directory
Installation of DHCP and NFS
Configure DHCPd and Exports
Setup SBC directory
DHCP Server – Provides SBC the downloadable booting image
NFS – Network File Sharing
Configure DHCPd and Exports – Configure the netboot user (SBC), and IP addresses to be given
Setup SBC directory – Create file directories that are going to be shared with SBC in Pixlab 05
Edit client – Edit some information regarding fstab (file system table = system configuration file) and network
Compile the Kernels – Download and compile the kernels that are necessaey for network booting
Create image – Use mkelf-linux or mknbi-linux to package the kernel and create a downloadable network image (Netboot.nbi)
Edit Client Configuration
Compile the Kernels
Create Netboot Image

17. Troubleshooting SBC Sleeping Issue
SBC not being able to execute image file
Sleeping Issue – Resolved by disabling firewall
Not executing image file – Resolved by using specific version of mknbi-linux image packaging software sent by Paolo

18. Successful Network Booting of SBC
SBC login screen
X-windows in SBC

19. Software Installation
TDAQ/IBLDAQ Installation (Currently in progress)
TDAQ /RCE Controller Software (complete)
IBLDAQ 0-0-0
Installing based on SLC5/i686
TDAQ development team crashed the file system
Resolving the inconsistency between SLC6 and SLC5

20. Future plans Complete installation of TDAQ/IBLDAQ
Receive eBOC to establish communication between FEI3/MCC module to our ROD
Installing right version of firmware to ROD
Receive IBLROD and establish communication between FEI4/MCC module to IBLROD
Testing or ROD Firmware?