Geiger Cards setup

Hardware

The hardware is already set-up in the rack, the HV crate and cards are on top, then there is the read-out crate with 13 (11 working) Geiger cards, the FPGA based trigger board and the VME controller, connected to the PC via USB.

Finally we have the NIM electronics that is used to form the (real or simulated) trigger signal.

Software

Many information on how to compile and run the software that drives the FPGA trigger board and the VME read-out is already available at DAQSetup

The software is available on svn

In particula you will need CAEN_VME_GeigerTest from <a href="http://svn/trac/SuperNEMO/browser/supernemo/DaqReadoutModules" title="View Directory">DaqReadoutModules</a> (use the version in the cvilela for the moment) and <a href="http://svn/trac/SuperNEMO/browser/supernemo/FPGAcontrol" title="View Directory">FPGAcontrol</a> (FPGAcontrol will only work on a 64bit machine since libftd2xx.so only comes in 64bit).

Refer to the README file in FPGAcontrol to compile and run the tool.

Connect the FPGA board via usb and run

fpga 1 30 0 1 0 12 10 1 0 1 0 47 0 48 28 0 1 0 0 0

to setup the trigger. Then connect the VME controller via usb and run

CAEN_VME_GeigerTest

-- MicheleCascella - 2013-12-02

-- MicheleCascella - 2013-12-03