1. Configuring the Peripheral Crates
Fred Borcherding

2. Outline of pcrate config Pages
Start with RCMS
Start the pcrate configuration process
Open the pcrate configuration XDaq page in browser
The Yellow Page
The Green Page
The boards / slots
The MPC
Status
Utilities
The CCB
The DMB & CFEBS
Tests
utilities
The TMB, RAT and ALCT
Monitor TMB trigger
Utils
Chamber tests
The TTC
TTCci
LTC

3. LTC – Local Trigger Control
The LTC controls the L1As
Can be set for cosmic triggers
Can be set for random triggers

4. LTC View with the L1As ENABLED But no L1As generated
Note the orbit and L1A counters

5. Configuration Chooser
Clicking on Configuration Chooser brings up a view of the directories
Clicking on Commissioning brings up the configuration processes

6. Starting the pcrate process
The Commissioning directory has 5 processes
Click on startPCrate

7. Click on Create to create the process
If you get a message that it already exists
Click on Attach

8. If it was just created, you next have to Initialize it
Click on Initialize

9. Do NOT configure – you can click on Status Table

10. Status Table for Configure
Clicking on the link on the rhs will give you XDAQ pages
BUT you should use the Bookmarks instead to go directly to the page
(or copy the link)
Going from the status page gives you a truncated version of the browser without bookmark tabs plus other undesirable features
(BAD)

11. Yellow Page This is the famous Yellow Page
The Yellow page is the Home page for all configuration work
From the top part you can work on ALL pcrates at once
From the lower part you can pick a single pcrate and work on that whole crate
Or you can go into that crate and work on individual pcrate boards on CSC and the on-chamber boards

14. Overview of the Green Page
The green page lists the 21 crate slots and their contents
Not all boards need show up on this page
The xml (db) for this pcrate is used to draw the board options
The slots above 21 were used for special whole crate features – they also must be set up by the xml (db)

15. Green Page Detail There are 6 pcrate board types Slot 1 VCC
Slot 12 MPC
Slot 13 CCB
TMB > other even slots
RAT > linked to TMB
behind the crate and not shown here
DMB > other odd slots

17. ALCT & RAT Status
<< RAT Status
\/ ALCT Status

19. Radioactive Trigger 0ALCT > 1of6 layers ALCT fired
13CLCT > 1of6 layers of CLCT pre-trigger fired
17TMB ALCT & CLCT matched

29. After DMB Test All