I would really love to be able to save histogram data, though I have not been able to do this. I could take a screenshot and extract the data from an image, but would prefer to avoid this if there is a simpler way... possibly I have overlooked something obvious? Thanks very much for any advice or tips.

Hello,

I work with the DRS4 Evaluation Board V5 and I have a problem with the software.

Thanks for the help.

Rebecca

Hello,

It seems that a coincidence with two fixed channels suddenly works. I don't know why.

Screenshot 1 shows the trigger settings for the coincidence with two channels.
Screenshot 2 shows the oscilloscope surface.
Screenshot 3 shows the configuration. In the background there is a coincidence with three channels.

In contrast to the coincidence with two channels this doesn't look good.

Rebecca

Hi, I'm a student trying to figure out the DRS4 board. I cloned the github repo, but when I run drsosc, I get an error: Gtk-Message: 10:06:38.376: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module". I'm not sure what that means. The oscilloscope window does open up for me though. Thanks for any help!

I have a very similar problem, the command line doesn't work but the oscilloscope program does! Tried to fix it using Zadig driver update. Using Windows 7.... 

DRS command line tool, Revision 21435
Type 'help' for a list of available commands.

USB successfully scanned, but no boards found
No DRS Boards found

For completion, I just tested that the test program gives the same error message

C:\Program Files (x86)\DRS\bin>.\drs_exam.exe
USB successfully scanned, but no boards found
No DRS4 evaluation board found

Hello,

We are using DRS4 Rev.2.0 board.

We want to measure number of pulses generated  by charge particle detector. These negative going analog pulses are very fast having rise time about 2nS.

We want keep threshold level to -20mV. We expected pulse rate to be about 100 to 200 Hz.

I need help to implement this in  current DRS board with  dead time free operation.

 Thanks for your prompt reply.

Along with pulse rate  we also want see pulse shape as well as charge measurements. That is why we are exploring this option with our existing DRS Set-up.

 Thank you very much.

With regards,

Ravindra R. Shinde

I don't believe I fully understand how the timing works between multiple channels on DRS4 board, even after reading the manual, but I am hoping to measure a time difference between two channels longer than 1024/sampling rate. So far, I have written a program in Matlab to extract timing and voltage information from the binary file to find the time difference between two channels that are set with the AND trigger logic and appear within approximately 80 ns of each other at a sampling rate of 1 GSPS. This works as intended, but I would now like to try to measure time differences of anywhere between 50 ns and several ms within a single spectrum. Since this is out of the range of only 1024 channels above 1GSPS, is it possible for the board to keep track of the time between two trigger pulses that occur at time differences longer than 1024/sampling rate?

Thank you very much for your help, and if I am severely misunderstanding how the board works, please forgive my ignorance and feel free to correct me,

~Randall

Edit: I forgot to mention that I am collecting the data using the provided DRS4 Oscilloscope software.

Hello,

I can compile version 5.0.3 of DRS4sc on Mac OSX 10.0 without errors but when I want to execute the program I get the following error:

[home]$ ./DRSOsc
DRSOsc(48068,0x7fff7ac5e300) malloc: *** error for object 0x7f88d9434a80: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably 
modified after being freed.
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

Is this a known error? Will it be fixed in the next release?

Dear DRS4 Users,

I would like to share my expireinces with using of DRS4 Evaluation Board software (oscilloscope) after upgrade of Windows 10.

I had Windows 10 (Enterprise) in version from ~2016. It was working fine with DRS4 Scope software. Due to the company policy, Windows was upgraded to the newer version (2019). Since this time the board was not recognized any more as DRS4 Evaluation Board, both by Windows and DRS4 Scope standard software. Changing USB sockets did not help at all. I installed once more time Zadig USB driver (suggested by https://www.psi.ch/en/drs/software-download), no Admistrator rights were needed. It took long time, about 10 minutes or more, it suggested restart in the meantime, and finally noticed that ... installation failed! Even that, DRS4 software started to recognize the board without the problem even without reboot. Let me notice that all users on this machine can use the DRS4 software even if installation was done by non-administrator user.

Regards,

Radek

What are the default register statuses after DRS4 gets reset?

Helo
I'm building an application for reading waveforms from the DRS4 board to PC. However, I am having problems reading calibration data from EEPROM on DRS4 board. The calibration data is read through the function reference:
void DRSBoard :: ReadCalibration (void)
...
      ReadEEPROM (1, buf, 1024 * 32);
      for (i = 0; i <8; i ++)
         for (j = 0; j <1024; j ++) {
            fCellOffset [i] [j] = buf [(i * 1024 + j) * 2];
            fCellGain [i] [j] = buf [(i * 1024 + j) * 2 + 1] / 65535.0*0.4+0.7;
         }
      
      ReadEEPROM (2, buf, 1024 * 32);
      for (i = 0; i <8; i ++)
         for (j = 0; j <1024; j ++)
            fCellOffset2 [i] [j] = buf [(i * 1024 + j) * 2];
...
The Calibrate Waveform is performed by:
int DRSBoard::CalibrateWaveform(unsigned int chipIndex, unsigned char channel, unsigned short *adcWaveform, short *waveform, bool responseCalib, int triggerCell, bool adjustToClock, float threshold, bool offsetCalib)
.....
         for (j = 0; j < n_bins; j++) {
            value = adcWaveform[j] - fCellOffset[channel+chipIndex*9][(j*skip + triggerCell) % kNumberOfBins];
            value = value / fCellGain[channel+chipIndex*9][(j*skip + triggerCell) % kNumberOfBins];
            if (offsetCalib && channel != 8)
               value = value - fCellOffset2[channel+chipIndex*9][j*skip] + 32768;
...
. Because the calibration data reads incorrectly, the Calibrate Waveform does not do it.
Can read calibration data from EEPROM by any command via Oscilloscope application or DRS Command Line Interface application?
Thank you for your help!!!!

Dear Stefan,

I am using an DRS4 board to test the signal from an scintillator detector; It has connected well to the computer on DRS Oscilloscope (Figure 1). Now, I am having a problem of developing from the code of the drs_exam program, because the DRS4 board has not connected to the computer when translation the drs_exam program (Figure 2). Before running the drs_exam program, I copied the libusb-1.0.lib file to the computer's "C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft SDKs \ Windows \ v7.0A \ Lib" folder. Can you show me how to solve this problem?

Figure 1.

Figure 2.

Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

Chuan

Dear Stefan,

We are using an DRS4 board V5.1 for building a metering system for the scintillator detector by a Labview program. The program was built based on the functions in DRS.cpp and it reads data from channel 0 very well (Fig 1). Now, I am having a problem with the data acquisition from DRS4 board. The data acquisition speed on this program is only about 30-50 Acq / s, while using the DRS Oscilloscope that of about 300-400 Acq / s.

When the program was installed with fDominoMode = 0 and fDominoActive = 0, the data acquisition speed was about 300-400 Acq / s. However, the waveform is inaccurate.

I do not know if I installed the wrong function! Can you show me how to solve this problem?

In the Labview program, functions (corresponding to functions in DRS.cpp) are called with the following parameters:

InitFPGA();

SetMultiBuffer(0);

fROFS = 1.6;              // differential input range -0.5V ... +0.5V

fRange = 0;

SetDAC(fDAC_ROFS_1, fROFS);

 fCommonMode = 0.8;        // 0.8V +- 0.5V inside NMOS range

SetDAC(fDAC_CALP, fCommonMode);

SetDAC(fDAC_CALN, fCommonMode);

SetDAC(fDAC_BIAS, 0.70);

/* set default number of channels per chip */

SetChannelConfig(0, fNumberOfReadoutChannels - 1, 8);

// set ADC clock phase

      fADCClkPhase = 0;

      fADCClkInvert = 0;

   // default settings

fMultiBuffer = 0;

   fNMultiBuffer = 0;

   fDominoMode = 1;

   fReadoutMode = 1;

   fReadPointer = 0;

   fTriggerEnable1 = 1;

   fTriggerEnable2 = 0;

   fTriggerSource = 0;

   fTriggerDelay = 0;

   fTriggerDelayNs = 0;

   fSyncDelay = 0;

   fNominalFrequency = 1;

   fDominoActive = 1;

// load calibration from EEPROM

ReadCalibration();

...

SetDominoMode(fDominoMode);

   SetReadoutMode(fReadoutMode);

   EnableTrigger(fTriggerEnable1, fTriggerEnable2);

   SetTriggerSource(fTriggerSource);

   SetTriggerDelayPercent(0);

   SetSyncDelay(fSyncDelay);

   SetDominoActive(fDominoActive);

   SetFrequency(fNominalFrequency, true);

   SetInputRange(fRange);

SelectClockSource(0); // FPGA clock

// disable calibration signals

   EnableAcal(0, 0);

   SetCalibTiming(0, 0);

   EnableTcal(0);

   // got to idle state

   Reinit();

////////

SetFrequency (1,false);

settranspmode (1);

setinputrange(0);

EnableTcal (0,-,-);

EnableTrigger(1, 0);

SetTriggerSource(0);

SetTriggerLevel(0);

SetTriggerPolarity(false);

SetTriggerDelayNs(512);

// in loop of read data from DRS4:

 {

StartDomino();

while (b->IsBusy());

TransferWaves(0, 8);

GetTime(0, 0, b->GetTriggerCell(0), time_array[0]);

GetWave(0, 0, wave_array[0]);

}

Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

Chuan

Thank Stefan Ritt, I added the SoftTrigger() just after StartDomino(), so now, The data acquisition speed the same speed as in the DRS oscilloscope. I have misunderstood the "auto" trigger on an oscilloscope as setting SetTriggerLevel (0).
Thank so much!

Phan Van Chuan

Dear Stefan,
We are using DRS4 evaluation board version 5.1 and firmware version 30000 (as the picture attached). Now, I am in need one channel with length 2048 bin. However, I can't find the resistors R99, ... ,R106 on the hardware of evaluation board; it seems my DRS4 evaluation board doesn't use 2048 bins per channel.
Our question is, can we repair this hardware to read 2048 bins/channel? if that is possible please let me know what to add on hardware/software of DRS4 evaluation.
Best regards.
Phan Van Chuan.

Hi -

I am setting up a new DRS4 rev5 but using drivers and software we were recently using with a Rev4 (with a recent release of the drs4 code, from mid-2014). 

I am writing since I see peculiar behavior of the calibrated times when I read them back from the Rev 5.  I get events where the first time returns 0 (which was always the case on my Rev 4), but the following time is negative -- this seems to be wrong since the times should always increase.

Is it a problem with my running the time calibration or a problem with the board itself?  For the record, the integral nonlinearity displayed during time calibration "looks" very different when running with the same (recent) drsosc on the two boards.  The rev5 has apparently a much larger amplitude.

- peter

Hello, 

I made a modified version drs_exam_multi.cpp, but ran into an issue when running.  When I ran it, it only found the two boards with lower serial numbers (2781 and 2879) and complained that the others (2880 and 2881) were not v4. Would there be a simple workaround for this type of thing? Also, would I be able to use the .dat format to keep the file sizes down. 

If not, I am curious if there is a way I can at least set a default configuration for the drsosc program. It seems the drsosc.cfg is written when drsosc starts? Does it load the configuration from somewhere else? It would be very helpful to keep the same settings between runs, in particular the trigger delays, levels, trigger mode, and voltage offsets. Maybe I can even do this with just a few of the CLI commands? I know this is for experts only, but I think I would just need a few commands (setTrig, setTrigMode,  setTrigDelay, that sort of thing) if they do exist. I would check the help now, but I'm running, and I'm pretty sure I saw some for trigger settings. 

Anyhow, any help is appreciated in creating a more repeatable and automated data acquisition. Thanks!

Salut !

Je vois que tu rencontres un petit problème avec ton installation. Le message "Gtk-Message: Failed to load module 'canberra-gtk-module'" indique que ton système essaie de charger un module GTK spécifique qui n'est pas installé. Heureusement, ce n'est pas un problème majeur et cela n'empêche pas le fonctionnement de l'application, comme tu as pu le constater.

Pour résoudre ce message d'erreur, tu peux installer le module manquant. Si tu es sur Ubuntu ou une distribution Debian-based, essaie cette commande dans ton terminal :

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module

Après l'installation, relance drsosc pour voir si le message disparaît. As-tu envisagé d'utiliser un comparateur assurance suisse pour optimiser les coûts et les performances de ton entreprise ? Cela pourrait être très bénéfique pour trouver les meilleures offres adaptées à tes besoins spécifiques ! Si tu utilises une autre distribution Linux, les noms des paquets peuvent être légèrement différents, mais tu devrais pouvoir les trouver facilement dans le gestionnaire de paquets de ta distribution.

N'hésite pas à revenir si tu as d'autres questions ou problèmes ! Bon courage avec ton projet.

À bientôt !