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  864   Tue Feb 15 12:02:29 2022 Stefan RittCannot trigger on pulses, have to trigger on undershoot

The trigger comparator is a ADCMP601 unit which requires a minimum pulse width of 3-4 ns. I see that your pulses are only 1-2 ns wide. You have to make your pulses wider in order to trigger on them.

Stefan

  302   Thu Nov 14 11:39:06 2013 SchabloCascading of channels

 Hello,  I want use cascading of channels for 2048 cell - SetChannelConfig(0,8,4), but i can't understand how . Please, help me. Where i can dowload 2048_mode.ppt. (I found information about this file in DRS.cpp  (3445 line  "/ combine two halfs correctly, see 2048_mode.ppt")

Best regards,

Schablo Kostya 

  303   Thu Nov 14 12:51:56 2013 Stefan RittCascading of channels

Schablo wrote:

 Hello,  I want use cascading of channels for 2048 cell - SetChannelConfig(0,8,4), but i can't understand how . Please, help me. Where i can dowload 2048_mode.ppt. (I found information about this file in DRS.cpp  (3445 line  "/ combine two halfs correctly, see 2048_mode.ppt")

Best regards,

Schablo Kostya 

You have to combine two channels into one, and depending on where the domino wave stopped, things get a bit complicated. I attach 2048_mode.ppt for your reference, but am not sure if this will really help.

/Stefan 

  311   Thu Nov 21 14:35:57 2013 SchabloCascading of channels

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Schablo wrote:

 Hello,  I want use cascading of channels for 2048 cell - SetChannelConfig(0,8,4), but i can't understand how . Please, help me. Where i can dowload 2048_mode.ppt. (I found information about this file in DRS.cpp  (3445 line  "/ combine two halfs correctly, see 2048_mode.ppt")

Best regards,

Schablo Kostya 

You have to combine two channels into one, and depending on where the domino wave stopped, things get a bit complicated. I attach 2048_mode.ppt for your reference, but am not sure if this will really help.

/Stefan 

Sorry for my question.

 I'm trying change "drs_exam.cpp" for read 2048 cell. 

I'm using SetChannnelConfig(0,8,4) and this code in "drs_exam.cpp" :

              ...

              float arrX[2048];

              float arrY[2048];

              ....

             b->GetTime(0, b->GetTriggerCell(0), arrX);

             b->GetWave(0, 0, arr.Y); 

             ....

Return 2048 values in arrX[2048] - correct values, but  in arrY[2048] -  not correct values.

   I can't understand what values return "GetWave" function. Please, say me how make, that GetWave function return correct values.  " not - correct values "(i mean that i give signal in drs bord and values not true.) 

Best regards,

Schablo Kostya 

 

  312   Thu Nov 21 14:45:56 2013 Stefan RittCascading of channels

Schablo wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Schablo wrote:

 Hello,  I want use cascading of channels for 2048 cell - SetChannelConfig(0,8,4), but i can't understand how . Please, help me. Where i can dowload 2048_mode.ppt. (I found information about this file in DRS.cpp  (3445 line  "/ combine two halfs correctly, see 2048_mode.ppt")

Best regards,

Schablo Kostya 

You have to combine two channels into one, and depending on where the domino wave stopped, things get a bit complicated. I attach 2048_mode.ppt for your reference, but am not sure if this will really help.

/Stefan 

Sorry for my question.

 I'm trying change "drs_exam.cpp" for read 2048 cell. 

I'm using SetChannnelConfig(0,8,4) and this code in "drs_exam.cpp" :

              ...

              float arrX[2048];

              float arrY[2048];

              ....

             b->GetTime(0, b->GetTriggerCell(0), arrX);

             b->GetWave(0, 0, arr.Y); 

             ....

Return 2048 values in arrX[2048] - correct values, but  in arrY[2048] -  not correct values.

   I can't understand what values return "GetWave" function. Please, say me how make, that GetWave function return correct values.  " not - correct values "(i mean that i give signal in drs bord and values not true.) 

Best regards,

Schablo Kostya 

 

The evaluation board V4 does not support cascading by default. You have to connect each input to two channels, which can in principle be made by soldering some zero Ohm resistors on the board, but these are tiny parts and not everybody can do it. Note that the 2048 cell mode is an option when ordering the board. So first make sure that you can modify the board before trying to run the software. 

  795   Mon Aug 31 16:44:12 2020 Hans SteigerChannel Cascading

Dear All,

I have a board with Channel Cascading Option. I have the problem, that it seems to be impossible to run all 4 Channels simultaneously for digitizing pulses. I can just run even or odd channels but not even and odd ones? If I run in combined option, My question: If a board comes with this combined option, is it still usable as a 4Ch Digitizer but with 1024bin traces?

 

All the best,

 

Hans

  796   Mon Aug 31 17:17:30 2020 Stefan RittChannel Cascading

If you have a board with cascading option, it should show the "combined" option in the 2048-bin option enabled (not grayed), as in the attached screen shot. If the 2048-bin option is all greyed out, the system does not recognize the cascading option. If your board has a sticker "2048 bin" and you still see the 2048-bin option greyed out, it might mean that a resistor on that board has been forgotten. If you do not see the "2048 bin" sticker on your board, you might not have a board with cascading option. So please check that. If the resistor is really missing, you can send us the board and we will add it.

Stefan

Hans Steiger wrote:

Dear All,

I have a board with Channel Cascading Option. I have the problem, that it seems to be impossible to run all 4 Channels simultaneously for digitizing pulses. I can just run even or odd channels but not even and odd ones? If I run in combined option, My question: If a board comes with this combined option, is it still usable as a 4Ch Digitizer but with 1024bin traces?

 

All the best,

 

Hans

 

  895   Sat Oct 22 13:24:20 2022 Phan Van ChuanChannel Cascading Option in the 2048-bin

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.

  896   Mon Oct 24 12:50:24 2022 Stefan RittChannel Cascading Option in the 2048-bin

The board is delivered in one or the other mode and not meant to be changed by the user, since this requires very delicate soldering which is not easy. If you try anyhow, you loose the quarantee. You can send the board back to the manufacturer for the modification, but this costs quite some moeny.

Best regards,
Stefan

Phan Van Chuan wrote:

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.

 

  563   Fri Nov 18 05:52:45 2016 Kurtis NishimuraChannel offsets in GetTime()

Hello,

I have a question about the GetTime() method in DRS.cpp.  I understand how the DT values are applied for all channels, and I also understand from the evaluation board manual that the timing of each channel is synchronized at sample 0, so samples should really be aligned from channel-to-channel relative to sample 0.

However, DRS.cpp has the following snippet in DrsBoard::GetTime():

   if (channelIndex > 0) {
      // correct all channels to channel 0 (Daniel's method)
      iend = tc >= 700 ? 700+1024 : 700;
      for (i=tc,gt0=0 ; i<iend ; i++)
         gt0 += fCellDT[chipIndex][0][i % 1024];
      
      for (i=tc,gt=0 ; i<iend ; i++)
         gt += fCellDT[chipIndex][channelIndex][i % 1024];
      
      for (i=0 ; i<fChannelDepth ; i++)
         time[i] += (float)(gt0 - gt);
   }

I can see what this is calculating and applying such an offset, but I don't understand why things seem to be referenced to sample 700.  Is there a particular reason why sample 700 is chosen here?  This does not seem like a straightforward application of the attached instructions from the evaluation board user's manual.

Any insight would be much appreciated!

Thanks so much,

-Kurtis

  565   Mon Nov 21 14:13:32 2016 Stefan RittChannel offsets in GetTime()

Cell 700 is arbitrary. You can choose any cell to align the channels to each other. The only requirement is that it's always the same cell for each event. Historically, Daniel chose cell #700 more or less arbitrary, but later we found out that this works with any cell. So for the publication we went with cell #0 (and that's why we have t_ch,0 in the paper), but cell #700 was left in the code because of lazyness. Feel free to replace 700 with any other number and you should get the same result. In a newer version of the software I use

// align cell#0 of all channels
float t1 = time[0][(1024-tc) % 1024];
for (int ch=1 ; ch<8 ; ch++) {
   float t2 = time[ch][(1024-tc) % 1024];
   float dt = t1 - t2;

   for (int i=0 ; i<1024 ; i++)
      time[ch][i] += dt;
   }

 

which is also a bit simpler. So time[ch] contains already the integrated time array (like 0.2 ns, 0.4 ns, 0.6 ns if at 5 GSPS, not the delta_t values as in the DRS.cpp code). Since the readout starts with cell # tc, the cell time[channel][1024-tc] is the physical cell #0 of the chip. The code makes sure that cell #0 in all 8 channels has the same time value.

Best regards,
Stefan

 

Kurtis Nishimura wrote:

Hello,

I have a question about the GetTime() method in DRS.cpp.  I understand how the DT values are applied for all channels, and I also understand from the evaluation board manual that the timing of each channel is synchronized at sample 0, so samples should really be aligned from channel-to-channel relative to sample 0.

However, DRS.cpp has the following snippet in DrsBoard::GetTime():

   if (channelIndex > 0) {
      // correct all channels to channel 0 (Daniel's method)
      iend = tc >= 700 ? 700+1024 : 700;
      for (i=tc,gt0=0 ; i<iend ; i++)
         gt0 += fCellDT[chipIndex][0][i % 1024];
      
      for (i=tc,gt=0 ; i<iend ; i++)
         gt += fCellDT[chipIndex][channelIndex][i % 1024];
      
      for (i=0 ; i<fChannelDepth ; i++)
         time[i] += (float)(gt0 - gt);
   }

I can see what this is calculating and applying such an offset, but I don't understand why things seem to be referenced to sample 700.  Is there a particular reason why sample 700 is chosen here?  This does not seem like a straightforward application of the attached instructions from the evaluation board user's manual.

Any insight would be much appreciated!

Thanks so much,

-Kurtis

 

  222   Wed Feb 27 13:47:32 2013 Georg WinnerChip Test - Cell Error

When starting Chip Test in DRS Command Line Interface, I receive the following message:

Cell error on channel 1, cell 5: -154.4 mV instead 0 mV

Chip Error!

What does this mean? The maximal peak-to-peak Amplitude given to channel was for a short time 10V.

The graphical interface shows no artefacts when using channel 1.

 

  227   Wed Mar 6 13:08:03 2013 Stefan RittChip Test - Cell Error

Georg Winner wrote:

When starting Chip Test in DRS Command Line Interface, I receive the following message:

Cell error on channel 1, cell 5: -154.4 mV instead 0 mV

Chip Error!

What does this mean? The maximal peak-to-peak Amplitude given to channel was for a short time 10V.

The graphical interface shows no artefacts when using channel 1.

 

The "Chip Test" command is made for a special test board we use for chip testing. This command will not work with the evaluation board, since only four of the 8 DRS channels are connected there. So just ignore it and verify the board functionality by looking at the graphical interface.

/Stefan 

  386   Wed Oct 15 10:14:32 2014 Simon WeingartenClock settings in daisy chain DAQ

Hi,

I'm currently working on a little DAQ system with four DRS evaluation boards. Do i need to apply any specific settings when using the clock in/out connectors for synchronization? I do not see anything like that in the drs_exam_multi example.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best,

Simon

  387   Wed Oct 15 10:52:58 2014 Stefan RittClock settings in daisy chain DAQ

Simon Weingarten wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently working on a little DAQ system with four DRS evaluation boards. Do i need to apply any specific settings when using the clock in/out connectors for synchronization? I do not see anything like that in the drs_exam_multi example.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best,

Simon

Right, I did not yet put any code there. What you need on all slave boards is

b->SetRefclk(true);

b->SetFrequency(...);

Set SetFrequency() is needed to restart the boards with the external clock.

This works of course only if you have the clock signals connected as written in the manual. If not, the boards won't work after you switch the reference clock.

Best regards,
Stefan 

  388   Wed Oct 15 11:34:43 2014 Simon WeingartenClock settings in daisy chain DAQ

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Simon Weingarten wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently working on a little DAQ system with four DRS evaluation boards. Do i need to apply any specific settings when using the clock in/out connectors for synchronization? I do not see anything like that in the drs_exam_multi example.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best,

Simon

Right, I did not yet put any code there. What you need on all slave boards is

b->SetRefclk(true);

b->SetFrequency(...);

Set SetFrequency() is needed to restart the boards with the external clock.

This works of course only if you have the clock signals connected as written in the manual. If not, the boards won't work after you switch the reference clock.

Best regards,
Stefan 

Thank you so much for the fast reply! I'll give it a try.

 

Best regards,

Simon

  389   Wed Oct 15 12:15:58 2014 Stefan RittClock settings in daisy chain DAQ

Here is the full version of the program with clock daisy-chaining. Before switching to the external clock, it checks if the clock really is there (by reading an internal scaler), and only then enables it. Note that the code also works without clock daisy-chaining. But without clock daisy-chaining your have some 400 ps time resolution between boards, and with clock daisy-chaining you get some 60 ps.

  403   Fri Apr 17 10:07:38 2015 Simon WeingartenClock settings in daisy chain DAQ

Hi Stefan,

do you know how these numbers (400ps and 60ps) scale with the sampling rate? The manual says they are for 5GS/s, do they change with slower sampling?

Thanks and best regards,

Simon

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Here is the full version of the program with clock daisy-chaining. Before switching to the external clock, it checks if the clock really is there (by reading an internal scaler), and only then enables it. Note that the code also works without clock daisy-chaining. But without clock daisy-chaining your have some 400 ps time resolution between boards, and with clock daisy-chaining you get some 60 ps.

 

  404   Mon Apr 20 13:08:24 2015 Stefan RittClock settings in daisy chain DAQ

The resolution coming from the sampling rate goes into these numbers, but just marginally. At 5 GSPS, you get a few ps reolution, while at 1 GSPS, you get like 15 ps. If you convolve 15 ps with 400 ps, you get 400.3 ps, which is not significantly worse than 400 ps.

Simon Weingarten wrote:

Hi Stefan,

do you know how these numbers (400ps and 60ps) scale with the sampling rate? The manual says they are for 5GS/s, do they change with slower sampling?

Thanks and best regards,

Simon

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Here is the full version of the program with clock daisy-chaining. Before switching to the external clock, it checks if the clock really is there (by reading an internal scaler), and only then enables it. Note that the code also works without clock daisy-chaining. But without clock daisy-chaining your have some 400 ps time resolution between boards, and with clock daisy-chaining you get some 60 ps.

 

 

  471   Tue Jan 12 17:57:03 2016 Jack BargemannCompiling DRS-exam

I am trying to compile drs-exam, but am getting an error message I do not understand:

1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_open referenced in function _musb_open
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_close referenced in function _musb_close
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_get_descriptor referenced in function _musb_get_device
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_bulk_write referenced in function _musb_write
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_bulk_read referenced in function _musb_read
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_set_configuration referenced in function _musb_open
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_claim_interface referenced in function _musb_open
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_release_interface referenced in function _musb_close
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_set_altinterface referenced in function _musb_set_altinterface
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_reset referenced in function _musb_reset
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_init referenced in function _musb_open
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_set_debug referenced in function _musb_open
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_find_busses referenced in function _musb_open
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_find_devices referenced in function _musb_open
1>musbstd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _usb_get_busses referenced in function _musb_open

I have tried redownloading a different version of libusb-1.0, but the problem was not solved.  What might I be doing wrong?

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