Development Environment and FECs / SCUs Computers for building FESA/DevAcc Software At GSI the following computers can be used to design, code, compile and link ...
FESA3 User Space This wiki page is intended to collect FESA3 user written manuals and documentation. General FESA Projects * How To... * TipsZumGSIAcqui...
FESA Threads FESA uses threads to handle events, to communicate between its Server and Realtime components and to manage various background activities. Their prio...
Building FESA Software for a Yocto Frontend (Note: this is a preliminary guide, the tools will change) Introduction FESA on acc9 can be used natively as previous...
My workflow to create / build / deploy / debug a Fesa binary A Fesa eclipse plugin user story of Alexander Schwinn Create and build the class * File New ...
FESA C Code Snippets Working with devices Working with devices in the server part // Since server actions are only executed for a specific device, // we ca...
Einrichten der PXE Links für eine neu installierte SCU Die 'PXE Links' für SCUs werden von FE eingerichtet. Nachdem ACO/IN die SCU im DNS eingerichtet hat kann ma...
Basic System Information * The Mainboard is called Supermicro X11SSW F (Verify that in the Bios Setting before uploading any new firmware !!) * Information/...
Injection Kicker of SIS100 Attention: Check if it makes sense to merge SIS1000 Injection with SIS100 Extraction Kicker class !! Both kickers share the same ...
How to move a deploy unit to a different FEC / How to rename the FEC? Note: This recipe uses the DB mechanism that assigns every instance an ID. This was introduc...
FESA3 Cheat Sheets Eclipse offers the possibility to provide so called cheat sheets on different topics. Fully integrated within Eclipse itself it is easily possi...
White Rabbit based Timing Steps to create a White Rabbit triggered real time event Generally * New operational front ends first need to be registered by th...
REST Interface to the FESA DB Productive Version The REST interface to the FESA DB in the productive environment: https://asl157.acc.gsi.de/fesa client/v1 Docume...
Testing FESA Device Software Testing FESA device software, e.g. in a continuous integration (CI) process, can be performed using the FESA test generator. Usage O...
Python Module cmwrda Module implements an Interface for RDA device access, this means provides access to FESA devices. state: can be considered as operational Re...
Yocto Evaluation Old evaluation from 2016. For current (as of 2022) Yocto efforts Frontend.Yocto evaluating yocto as frontend operating system requires cross...
Logging in FESA Overview In FESA a selection of diffent loggers is available. Each C class has its own logger. All loggers are identified by their name which is...
FESA beginners / advanced courses 2016 This Wiki page contains information about the following courses: * FESA Course Beginners: Monday, 25.04 * FESA Course...
Guideline to develop, run and test a first, simple Fesa3 binary FIrst make sure that you installed the latest FESA Eclipse plug in . Afterwards the FESA3 hands o...
FESA3 8.0.1 "Oxygen" (planned for 10 / 2020) Information for FESA class developers Start * Installation of the FESA Development Environment * Quick ove...
FESA3 7.1.0 "Nitrogen" (02 / 2021) Information for FESA class developers Start * Installation of the FESA Development Environment * Quick overview on h...
(D)evice (EX)plorer Command line access to FESA Devices (for DevAcc devices routing to prophelper output) based on Udo Krauses Python interface for CMW. Flavours...
Acc8 Migration Migration of FESA software from acc7 (CentOS7) to acc8 (Rocky8) Recipe Upgrade FESA Design.Rebuild with new gcc versionConfigure startscriptsConfi...
Workflow Production of operational FESA3 Equipment Software at GSI Before you start to implement anything, you should clarify all requirements and ensure that al...
Contacts * Ralph Steinhagen (Initial Project creator) * Alexander Schwinn (FESA build dependencies) Overview * Up to 4 picoscopes will be connected via ...
Transactions in FESA Overview Transactions in FESA allow setting values to be written into a transaction buffer ahead of time and committed (or rolled back) with...
Timing Runtime Environment The Timing Runtime Environment contains binaries, libraries, dependencies and configuration files required by Etherbone and Saftlib. L...
Installation of the FESA3 Development Environment for FESA3 8.0.0 ASLCluster asl74x Machines that are to be used @GSI for FESA3 development: asl740 asl744. Log i...
fesa instance Update FESA device instance files in the device instance part, data taken from a text file. Utility is located: /common/usr/cscofe/bin/fesa instance...
fesa confdisp List configuration settings and event mappings for a set of instance files Will evaluate configuration data from instance files from workspace as we...
Fesa Instance Graph Visualization UNDER CONSTRUCTION fesa instance graph fesa instance graph is a tool that creates dot graphs from fesa xml files. Given a fe...
xmlfesatools Python library with tools for analysis of FESA XML files Usage: from pylib.fesa import xmlfesatools The library contains functions and classes to nav...
How to use Exceptions / Conditions Exceptions are used to illustrate errors and problems in the code. Examples are illegal states of the hardware or out of range ...
fesa evtcp Copy an event definition (a class events mapping) from one FESA instance file to other FESA instance files not yet stable, functionality may be modifie...
Process Statistics From FESA3 5.0.1 on process statistics will be available. The CMX library enabling process statistics (default set and custom) was originally w...
CMW Directory Server Required to establish connection between a client and a FESA binary. Both need to register at the same CMW directory server in order to estab...
fesaprop / fesa prop Module fesaprop A Python module to extract structure of properties from a FESA class description file. The module implements the classes: ...
ExtractionKicker of SIS100 Kicker system of SIS100 is responsible for normal extraction as well as for emergency dump of the the beam. The kicker system provides ...
FESA CLI Tool The FESA3 Eclipse plug in's functionality for designing FESA software, synchronizing C code, releasing etc is available as command line interface. ...
Nutzung der Digitizer Testumgebung auf der dal004 * Die dal004 hängt am "USER Timing" Netz (Falls kein Timing Timing Simulieren ) * Eine funktionierende ...
Device Configuration Workflow in the new Control System Best Practices Issues to consider when configuring / integrating / removing accelerator devices for / in...
Using Graylog Graylog is the current logging system of choice @GSI. The whole software stack constituting the control system should use this logging system and it...
SIS18 Spillabbruch The SIS18 SpillAbortUnit allows certain target stations to abort a spill from the SIS18 during slow extraction. Technical Design Report * S...
White Rabbit based Timing Steps to create a White Rabbit triggered real time event Generally * New operational front ends first need to be registered by th...
FESA Database To store FESA designs in the FESA3 database a variety of ideas exist on how to improve the procedure. A FESA design can be exported * during the ...
FESA3 Database Workflow Issues to consider The integration of the FESA3 database may affect the FESA development workflow known so far. If FESA software is supp...
Getting Information from the FESA Database During release of FESA software or on demand information about FESA designs of FESA classes, deploy units and instantia...
FEC overview This article is about the frontends supported by the FE group. Names and subnets FECs are available in different domain names: * hostname.acc.gsi...
How to deploy an instance Note: This how to is written only from memory and may miss important steps or contain mistakes. It should be verified. Prerequisite: You...
1. Announcements 1.1 SVN Read only The FESA SVN repository will be set to read only in the last week of october. All local changes should be committed from works...
Installation of the FESA3 Development Environment for FESA3 8.0.0 ASLCluster asl74x Machines that are to be used @GSI for FESA3 development: asl740 asl744. Log i...
System Monitoring and extended Diagnostics For enhanced diagnostics of embedded frontend computers system monitoring can be helpful. System monitoring should cove...
Buildsystem for Automated Testing A build system such as Jenkins can be used for test automation. This helps to detect issues in case of software changes. The sys...
Testing FESA3 equipment software with googletest This page summarizes how to create and run tests with FESA and googletest Googletest For an overview of googletes...
fesa instance Example 1 Modify entries for single devices and a group of devices, using accumulation of settings. Assume, a command file cmd1 with contents as be...
fesa instance Example 2 Update bitmaps, like detailed status entries. The bitmap information must be specified in an XML file. As an example, a file bitmap1.xml ...
Sequencer: Class interface adaption Der Sequencer ermöglicht automatisiertes Testen von Geräten durch den kompletten Stack (siehe AP https://www acc.gsi.de/wiki/S...
fesa dev dump, fesa dev load Both tools are using Python cmwrda, so don't forget to specify production environment by option pro dev int or by setting environm...
Moving to FESA3 7 and Eclipse 2019 03 New and Noteworthy FESA3 7.0.x https://www acc.gsi.de/wiki/FESA/FESA3ReleaseHistory TODO Cycle bound Properties In FESA3 ...
FESA Open Issues and Long Term Goals Common * SUCCESS /FAILURE Rückmeldung beim Setzen von Werten via Property? FESA Klassen abhängig oder generelle Lösung ...
09/2018 logstash has been replaced by graylog https://www acc.gsi.de/wiki/FESA/UsingGraylog Using Logstash Logstash is the logging system of choice @GSI. The w...
FESA3 as RPM Installation More information on RPM is found in Wikipedia: RPM Packet Manager. FESA3 Core To be able to easily distribute and install FESA3 on diff...
Standard properties and value items for GSI template In the GSI control system, each device should have a common set of properties. This set of properties is esta...
Main.SvetlanaFedotova 29 Jan 2020 CrySrcILKMonitor FESA class for reading the interlock status of water cooling and pressure in CRYRING local ion source. The spec...
Main.SvetlanaFedotova 29 Jan 2020 CrySrcMwGenerator FESA class for controlling MW generator for ECRIS ion source. Used for setting amplitude (0 9 V) and frequency...
Main.SvetlanaFedotova 29 Jan 2020 CrySrcPressureReader FESA class for reading the pressure from the pressure controller. The controller produces the values from 0...
Main.SvetlanaFedotova 29 Jan 2020 CrySrcGasController FESA class for controlling the gas flow on Pfeiffer fine dosing valve for ion source ECRIS. The valve accept...
Main.SvetlanaFedotova 29 Jan 2020 CrySrcPulser FESA class for pulsing of CRYRING ion source: generates triggers (5 V) upon Timing events for ion source pulsing an...
Tips zum GSI acquisition context field Das GSI acquisition context field enthält Informationen zu dem entsprechendem WhiteRabbit TimingEvent, die ansonsten bei ...
Tips zum GSI acquisition context field Das GSI acqusition context field wird in den FESA Development Guidelines 8.1.1 erlaeutert Das GSI acquisition context f...
How to modify a grc file, which is used by the Digitizer Class 1 You need to make sure that the correct set of blocks is loaded * Check which version whi...
FESA3 Class Documentation In the design of a FESA3 class many elements can have description tags. These tags are used as input for generation an HTML page per FES...
How to create a "Hello SCU" FESA Class? Note: Most of this is obsolete with FESA 7.x Prerequisite: Eclipse with FESA Plugin installed Aim: Create a minimum GSI FE...
FESA C Code Snippets Working with devices Working with devices in the server part // Since server actions are only executed for a specific device, // we di...
What is FESA ? The software running in the front end equipment controllers (FECs) will be developed using an adequate front end framework, called FESA. This frame...
Timing Runtime Environment The Timing Runtime Environment contains binaries, libraries, dependencies and configuration files required by Etherbone and Saftlib. L...
FESA3 Integration Tests @GSI Available Tests GSI Specific Integration Tests Development version: https://git.acc.gsi.de/FESA3 FWK/framework/src/branch/master/fe...
Migration from previous FESA3 versions FESA3 5.0.1/5.0.2 7.0.0 FESA3 v5.0.1 and v5.0.2 are equivalent as regards migration. Basic migration steps To migrate ex...
FESA3 7.0.0 Follow Up Activities As discussed on 21.08.2019/22.08.2019 the left over TODO's regarding the latest FESA3 7.0.0 release in order of appearance. / ...
FESA3 Tests Issues to consider, test and check on a fresh FESA3 installation (local in the developer's workspace as well as on test machines as on the asl cluster...
FESA3 Release X.x.x Planning Release Date: TODO Goals/Issues/Wishes * Version of timing Software (, FESL? TBD) in standard Version property * Persist...
How to trigger a RT Action form a server set action? Prerequisite: HowToCreateEmptyFESAProject Aim: Setting a property should trigger a specific real time action ...