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Revision as of 12:14, 20 May 2009

Overview

Traditionally the Fee in ALICE sub-detectors indicates when its buffers are full and cannot handle further triggers from the CTP. This is either done directly or through the FANIN module to the LTU with a busy signal.

Due to dense cabling, four of the ALICE sub-detectors (TPC, PHOS, FMD and EMCal), utilize a BusyBox to keep track of free buffers in their Fec. The BusyBox asserts the busy signal to the LTU when one or more of these conditions are true:

  1. Buffers in Fec are full
  2. Upon receiving a trigger sequence from TTC
  3. When the TTC sends a global reset to the Fee

The busy signal is de-asserted when one or more FEC buffers are freed

The BusyBoxes are located in the DAQ counting rom.

Version history

1.0

  • Magne Munkejord


1.01 (~may 2009)

  • Firmware version register added to 0x2015
  • Busy Controller module updated to handle orphan messages


Download Section

Specification document:
user_guide_busybox.pdf

Source files:
SVN database

BusyBox firmware:


DCS board firmware for BusyBox:
DCS BusyBox firmware

RCU Trigger Receiver Module

Master Thesis, Magne Munkejord

PhD Thesis, Johan Alme

User Guide BusyBox, Rikard Bølgen