Converting between hardware output files and trigger digis

Goal of this page

This page documents CMSSW modules for conversion between hardware ASCII dump files and trigger digis.

TPG TextToDigi modules

ECAL and HCAL TPG TextToDigi modules

• SimCalorimetry/EcalElectronicsEmulation/EcalFEtoDigi converts ASCII file TCC input to ECAL trigger primitive digis :

• IORawData/CaloPatterns/HcalPatternSource converts HCAL TPG XML pattern file to digis :
• IORawData/CaloPatterns/HtrPatternTool converts simulated hits to HCAL TPG XML pattern file :

L1 Trigger TextToDigi modules

Latest tag is V00-00-00. To align events when using multiple files that are not synchronised, these modules take a SkipEvents parameter that will ignore the first N events of the text file. Note that if the job attempts to read more events from a file than are present, a fatal exception will be thrown.

• TextToRaw converts an ASCII file to FEDRawData objects : Complete: (SkipEvents not yet implemented)
• SourceCardTextToRctDigi converts GCT Source Card ASCII dump to RCT digis :
• RctDigiToSourceCardText converts RCT digis to GCT Source Card ASCII dump (for loading patterns to Source Cards) :
• RctTextToRctDigi converts RCT ASCII dump (for 1 crate) to RCT digis : Complete:

We may wish to include a module that will convert a GT PSB ASCII dump to GCT digis.

L1 Trigger RawToDigi

Use in combination with a TextToRaw module to convert an ASCII dump of a FED DAQ packet to digis.

• GctRawToDigi - GCT unpacker : (Use tag V00-01-03)

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