Warren Parsons Log Book
This tracks My Daily Progress developing the VFAT readout
VHDL files for v1495
- GEMReadout.vhd
- The main function routines?
- GEMReadout_tb.vhd
- GEMRxChannel.vhd
- GEMRxEventDataFIFO.vhd
- a routine controlling the FIFO
- GEMRxEventSizeFIFO.vhd
- Defines the Event size and structure
- GEMTxChannel.vhd
- PLLVBlock.vhd
- spare_if_rtl.vhd
- tristate_if_trl.vhd
- v1495usr.vhd
- v1495usr_pkg.vhd
- v1495usr_hal.vhd
5/14/09
Firmware
Today we started looking at the VHDL firmware programs from Ben Raydo at JLab. Our goal: To determine what the general description of the firmware program is and determine an outline of its functionality.
Quartus II
Quartus II has a fairly good tutorial for usage. My goal is to complete this tutorial by the end of the week.
I also started to familiarize myself with the VHDL programming language.
5/15/09
Spent vast majority of day learning VHDL syntax.
Spent some time reviewing the GEM Readout Controller Firmware Status
Spent some time reviewing the v1495 instruction manual ( the Quartus II instructions in particular )
Spent some time reviewing the VFAT instruction manual
- Is there a primer somewhere on how to communicate via/with VME?
- How about this http://www.vita.com/vmefaq.html
I need to write down how to get into the DAQ as well as ROC xterm windows.
- Tamuna can show you the above
5/18/09
- From the manual on the VFAT2
- Are we using the Roman Pots or the GEM version for the channel assignments?