1. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 CCD detectors: spying with the Espia D. Fernandez A. Homs M. Perez C. Guilloud M. Papillon V. Rey V. A. Sole

2. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Talk outline Espia Card FReLoN 2k/4M:  Software installation  Control GUI Camera link CCDs:  Dalsa Pantera 1M60  Sarnoff CAM512

3. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Designed to interface the FReLoN 2k Requirements specified by ESRF Subcontracted to SECAD (Grenoble) 2 Gbps fiber optic link (> 100 m) PCI-X 64 bits / 66 MHz Bus master + Scatter Gather Camera serial line and state Interrupt driven Driver source code available!  Can write on 32-bit addresses (4 GB) Espia card

4. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 4 parallel readout channels No Mux – only one fiber optic! (!) Flexible RoI and binning Frame Transfer Mode 2048 x 1024 @ 16 fps  66 MB/s Automatic dark current compensation Kinetics mode  Mirror effect FReLoN 2k FReLoN 4M  Only one mode: 4 channels – Full Frame Mode

5. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Transtec workstation:  Standard SuSE 8.2 image for Frelon Driver:  bliss_drivers + dep. Server:  frelon_espia + bliss_dservers  No resources – just define in DB GUI:  Applications  Analysis  PyDis  PyDis Plugins  PluginFrelon  Config: local  frelon  frelon_devices.py Spec:  CCD  ESRF PC CCD Dev  ccd.mac + frelon2k.mac (not packaged yet) FReLoN 2k/4M software User guides  CCD  Frelon 2k

6. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 In the shell:  PyDis  Menu  Plugins  Acquire Starting the FReLoN GUI

7. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Experience level:  “Beginner”  CCD info  … more advanced FReLoN GUI: Acquisition

8. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Standard parameters:  Readout mode + synoptics  Exposure + nr of images  Binning  Trigger  RoI mode FReLoN GUI: Acquisition

9. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Status + actions:  Image size  Readout time + frame rate  Start / Stop / Reset  Status + errors FReLoN GUI: Acquisition

10. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Advanced parameters:  Shutter closing time  Latency time  Image flip RoI + Kinetics Storage FReLoN GUI: Acquisition

11. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Serial commands to CCD Diagnostics Not “seen” by the DS FReLoN GUI: Console

12. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 FReLoN 2k User’s Guide Sequencer doc. FReLoN GUI: Help

13. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Connects to the Espia  fiber optic 2 x Camera Link connectors: Base configuration Serial line + Control signals  Multiplexed Multiple pixel packing formats  All we need not avail. yet General I/O TTL signals Camera Link: FOCLA

14. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Higher quantum efficiency Frame transfer mode 1024 x 1024 @ 60 fps  120 MB/s 512 x 512 @ 120 fps 1 x Camera Link [Base] Connector Compact!  Image not reconstructed FOCLA does reconstruction Dalsa Pantera 1M60

15. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Dalsa setup Fast online display Image reconstruction

16. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 High quantum efficiency Frame transfer mode 512 x 512 @ 300 fps  150 MB/s 512 x 128 @ 500 fps 2 x 8 ADCs – 12 bit 2 x Camera Link [Base] Connectors  Separate RS-232 serial line Robust protocol Sarnoff CAM512

17. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Sarnoff setup Camera Link Fiber optic RS-232

18. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 The real setup

19. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 The results 75 frames 250 ms 40x slowdown  No sound!  B&W  Flickering

20. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 The making of

21. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Special effects: rotation Espia #1 Espia #2

22. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Image reconstruction in kernel Espia #1 Espia #2

23. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Image reconstruction in library 1032547601234567 FOCLA pixel packing: Frame Post-Operation Pixel swap operation: Reconstructed frame: Per frame operation Warranted only once in a multi-frame (big) buffer Callback thread safe FOCLA pixel packing will be solved in future

24. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 “Very High memory” support Physical Memory Low RAM 0 MB 3.2 GB PCI Very high RAM 800 MB 4 GB 5.8 GB High RAM 32 bit boundary Driver always has 32-bit aux. frames If next target frame has 64-bit pages:  Program each Espia to write on aux frame  Frame end (all adapters finished) copy the aux. frame into target  Inform waiting threads Adapters are not synchronous Memory copy (666 MB/s) with IRQ enabled Implementation in driver

25. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Data integrity Espia #1 Espia #2  s = g·t·  t  8 mm  ½ 14 mm

26. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Sarnoff summary Two Espia in parallel  150 MB/s All frames in high memory  intense memory copy Frame post-operations:  Pixel swap  Check NULL lines Hard disk write at max speed (4 disk in RAID 0) Online visualisation active Data OK!

27. A. Homs, BLISS Day Out – 15 Jan 2007 Thank you!