In the trigger supervision panel a tab opens a panel to manage the recipes.
Recipes can be
created or
deleted or
applied to a processor or to the whole trigger (4 processors at the same time). This means that behind the scene each action manage 13 PVSS hardware recipes for each concerned processors.
Creation of recipes
To create a recipe you have to type hexadecimal values for the 4 fields corresponding to PB or CB registers.
You have to use the
Configure processing boards Masks button to open the panel that will provide the way to define each optical link masking (see further for this panel use).
Type the name of the recipe you want to create in the editable field of the combo box. If you use an already existing name the old recipes will be overloaded.
Push the button
Save recipes for Processor to create the 13 recipes of the current processor or
Save Recipes for Trigger to create the 52 recipes of the trigger.
Define the optical link masks
When the panels opens it shows the hardware values of the masks for the current processor. You can change them one by one or with the group change buttons at the higher part of the panel.
Modified values turn to white. They remain white until you save them. At any time you can save your configuration using the
Save in Recipe File button. You can get back the last saved configuration by pushing the
Read from recipe File button.
To quit the panel use the
SaveQuit button which automatically save your configuration before closing the window or use the
Quit button which dont save the changes since your last save in file action.
Once this panel is closed the saved file will be used to create the recipe.
Apply a recipe to the processors
To apply a recipe to a processor you select a recipe name in the combo box and press wether the
Apply recipe to Processor Boards Hardware button or the
Apply recipe to Trigger Boards Hardware button
Delete recipes
To delete recipes of a processor you select a recipe name in the combo box and press wether the
Delete for Processor button or the
Delete for Trigger button.
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PierreYvesDuval - 23 Apr 2008