1. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 1 DAQ Status o Detector DAQ Test bench in Geneva o Preparing for Test Beam o FE electronics tests o Detector DAQ software o Control and Monitoring o Summary Jean-Sebastien Graulich, Geneva

2. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 2 Reminder

3. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 3 Test Bench in Geneva  Original plan drawn last December  Hardware Orders: VME crates 3 PCs 2 VME/PCI interfaces (V2718)  Everything in hand V2718 received in Feb. VME crates not delivered yet, using spares  A lab has been set up at CERN (595-R-005)  Still missing proper DAQ Software… (Event Builder) distribution Trigger Optical link + Online Monitoring TOF Trigger Ethernet Linux PCs Office Switch Run Control + Event Builder VME Crates

4. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 4 Preparing for Test Beam  Test beam in BTF, Frascati (Rome) July 12-20 (see Vittorio’s talk)  Main focus of the last 4 months  Homemade DAQ software High training value Getting used with V2718 (Interface) Getting used with V1290 (TDC) Single Crate / Single PC DAQ  Ready and Running stable at 50 Hz, already exported to Milano for further tests  See parallel talk for details Trigger Optical link + Online Monitoring TOF + EmCal Linux PC Run Control VME Crate NIM Crate

5. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 5 FE Electronics Tests  Flash ADC (option for charge measurement in EmCal) Evaluation module received from Struck SIS3320, 200 MHz, 12 bits, 32 MB Event Buffer Readout OK, with BTF software Testing energy and time resolution after shaper 2 ns rise time Shaper V thr t thr ~30 ns rise time If we can fit the rising edge, time resolution can be much better than the 5 ns of the sampling rate.  Advantage: No signal splitter, no delay cable, no discriminator, no TDC !

6. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 6 FE Electronics Tests  ToT Discriminator (option for TOF and EmCal?) Evaluation module received from CAEN TDC V1190, 100ps, Leading edge and Trailing edge measurement (V1290 is better but was not available) Readout OK, with BTF software Testing Energy resolution and Amplitude-walk correction resolution  Advantage: Cheap and easy, no additional module required PMTNINO Disc. TDC Trigger Logic Width ~Charge Leading edge + Trailing edge Time Measurement

7. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 7 FE Electronics Tests  TeV IPM (option for charge measurement in EmCal and TOF) Based on QIE chip (charge integrator) Fermilab is preparing an evaluation system. There is hope to have it ready for the test beam

8. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 8 Detector DAQ Software  Agreement with ALICE Collaboration concerning the use of DATE Me and an doctoral student will be trained to DATE in the ALICE DAQ group, working on a real project from Sept 06 to Feb 07. MICE will be granted full access to DATE software Our advantages Premium training Full support

9. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 9 Control and Monitoring  Training in progress  Defining ground rules Naming convention Standard Hardware Interface Software Applications  See Paul Drumm’s talk for details

10. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 6 th June 2006 10 Standard Hardware Interfaces *EPICS supports many different hardware interfaces. To keep systems as compatible as possible the use of Hytec 9010 IOC and IP modules is recommended for most applications. *For more complex situations specialised systems such as VME crates may be necessary. This approach will require considerably more software expertise to develop and integrate.

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14. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 6 th June 2006 14 Standard Hardware Interfaces *The Hytec 9010 IOC supports upto 6 Industry pack (IP) interface modules. *Suggested IP modules are: *IP-ADC-84018 channel 16-bit ADC (+/- 10V) *IP-DAC-840216 channel 16-bit DAC (+/- 10V) *IP-SI-85158 channel RS232 *IP-SIO-850516 channel buffered digital I/O We now have two IOC boxes: @ Sheffield – target @ RAL – hydrogen system

15. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 6 th June 2006 15 Application Software *Most generic control software is already available for EPICS, including: *Display managers – tools to design and display interactive synoptic control diagrams *Archiver – automatically record and archive control requests and significant changes to monitored values *Alarm Handler – Produce an audible and visual indication of any values exceeding pre-defined alarm limits. *These tools will be available to the MICE control system so DON’T RE-INVENT THE WHEEL!

16. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 16 DDAQ and MCM Integration First Concept Idea :  One DDAQ Event Type (presumably the End-of-Spill Event) will be devoted to contain a summary of MCM data relevant for physics analysis e.g. Temperature, P in the absorber, B in tracker solenoid, all-OK flag for each system…  On “End-of-Spill Event” Trigger (~every second), one of the DDAQ PCs (presumably the one attached to the trigger crate) will request this information to the EPICS Data Base and forward it to the Event Builder  Soft-Interlock should prevent Data taking when one all-OK flag is down: On “Start-of-Run”, the Run Controller will interrogate the EPICS data base on the operating conditions  The MCM should know if the DDAQ is Running or not Running -> The Run Controller should be also an EPICS Server

17. MICE CM15 June 2006Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 17 Summary  Before talking about Data Acquisition we have to talk about Expertise Acquisition In progress in Geneva (DDAQ) and in Daresbury (MCM)  DAQ for the July test beam is ready  FE electronics tests are underway  The right to use DATE has been obtained under certain conditions  Integration between DDAQ and MCM is taking shape