Timing Receiver: Usage

For using a Timing Receiver (TR) please follow the directions here.

What is Needed

• TR hardware, see here what is supported by the current release
• IMPORTANT: prior to connecting the TR to a White Rabbit network, the device must be registered
• host system - there are two choices
  1. Front-End Computer (FEC) supported by ACO->INN
     1. check, that timing Run-Time Environment is enabled; @2020, this just requires to create a symbolic link, see here
     2. reboot the FEC
  2. host systeme managed by yourself; this is not supported by ACO but we have prepared a how-to
     1. check out git repository
     2. build at least 'etherbone', 'driver', 'tools', 'saftlib'
     3. install
     4. (reboot)
     5. (non-sudo access to drivers requires being a member of the 'wishbone' group)

Usage

• make yourself familiar using the command line tools
  • eb-mon
  • saft-ctl
• for developing your own applications check out the following
  • saftlib, see here for documentation and examples
  • etherbone, see here for documentation and examples

When trying or testing things it is convenient to receive timing messages at the input of the ECA.

• standalone operation: use saft-ctl -> inject, or saft-dm
• standard operation: setting up patterns is done via operators in the the main control room (production system)

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-- DietrichBeck - 16 Nov 2018