PV List

in terminal:

caget  =  read PV value
caput  =  set PV or command

View the known PV list from the DAQ

in the DAQ, anywhere type

ShowPVList

Get the full PV list from the DAQ

from John's email:

When you turn on the VME crate the MVME5500 processor performs its initial bootstrap and then goes out and loads a “command file” – this is basically like AUTOEXEC.BAT on a PC, a text file with a bunch of console commands. That “command file” will load some EPICS “database” files from a remote server. To edit the PVs we need to know what machine the MVME5500 uses as the remote boot host and where in that machine’s file structure the database file is located.

If you open up a terminal window to your trigger crate’s IOC console and enter the command ‘version’ it should print out some stuff about what version of VxWorks it is running and then say “Boot line:” followed by a path to a file. For instance the DGS trigger IOC says it’s boot line is

dgs1:/global/devel/boot/mvme5500/VxWorks <then a bunch of IPs and other junk, then finally> s=/global/devel/gretTop/9-22/dgsIoc/iocBoot/IocArray/vme32.cmd

It’s that last path after the “s=” that you’re interested in. That’s the location of the boot script for the processor. You want to look at that file to figure out where the EPICS database is stored for your system.

Inside that file you’ll find some lines that say dbLoadRecords(<path>,<args>); these are the actual database files. They should have an extension of either .template or .db. More than likely there are some ‘cd’ commands prior to these lines and the paths in the ‘dbLoadRecords’ lines will be relative to the place the last ‘cd’ took you. I would expect there to be a file RtrigRegisters.template.

At this point you know where the files are, but modifying them may require a recompile of your EPICS setup. So before going farther I will suggest that it is possible you have the PVs.

known PV list

=========================== GOLBAL PV
GLBL:DIG:<PV>            -- for whole system
VME$$:MDIG$$:<PV>        -- for whole digitizer
VME$$:MDIG$$:<PV>$$      -- for write indivual channel
VME$$:MDIG$$:<PV>$$_RBV  -- for read onlu

=====================+==========================+=======+========+=====+=====+
Items                | PV                       |  R/W  | Global | DIG |  CH |
=====================+==========================+=======+========+=====+=====+
Disc. Hits           | disc_count               |   R   |   X    |  X  |  O  |
Acc. Hits            | ahit_count               |   R   |   X    |  X  |  O  |
Acc. Evts            | accepted_event_count     |   R   |        |     |     | 
Drop. Evts           | dropped_event_count      |   R   |        |     |     |
Live TS              | CV_LiveTS                |   R   |        |     |     |
trigger mode         | trigger_mux_select       |  R/W  |        |     |     |
trig. pol.           | trigger_polarity         |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
channel enable       | channel_enable           |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
threshold            | led_threshold            |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | p1_window                |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | p2_window                |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
                     | k_window                 |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | k0_window                |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | d_window                 |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | d2_window                |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | d3_window                |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | m_window                 |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | pileup_mode              |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
Trace lenght  delay  | raw_data_length          |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
Trace lenght         | raw_data_window          |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | CFD_fraction             |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
Baseline   Delay     | delay                    |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
Baseline channel     | baseline_start           |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
Min overlap window   | win_comp_min             |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
Max overlap window   | win_comp_max             |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
Discr. Width         | disc_width               |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | peak_sensitivity         |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
                     | tracking_speed           |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
                     | preamp_reset_delay       |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
                     | holdoff_time             |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
                     | cfd_mode                 |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  X  |
                     | veto_gate_width          |  R/W  |   O    |  X  |  X  |
enable preamp reset  | preamp_reset_delay_en    |  R/W  |   O    |  O  |  O  |
=====================+==========================+=======+========+=====+=====+

=========================== Other PV:
Online_CS_SaveData     | set Save Data register
Online_CS_StartStop    | set DAQ start stop
DAQC$_CV_SendRate
DAQC$_CV_NumSendBuffers
DAQC$_CV_BufferAvail

VME32:RTR$:TimestampB
VME32:MTRG:TIMESTAMP_B

VME32:RTR$:reg_MISC_STAT_RBV

VME32:MTRG:MAN/AUX.DESC
VME32:MTRG:SUM_X.DESC
VME32:MTRG:SUM_Y.DESC
VME32:MTRG:SUM_XY.DESC 

VME32:MTRG:RAW_TRIG_RATE_COUNTER_$_RBV

VME32:MTRG:XTHRESH
VME32:MTRG:YTHRESH

VME32:RTR1:reg_MISC_STAT_RBV   | router lock state
VME32:RTR2:reg_MISC_STAT_RBV 

VME32:RTR1:LOCK_COUNT_A_RBV    | lock counter
VME32:RTR1:LOCK_COUNT_B_RBV    | lock counter
VME32:RTR1:LOCK_COUNT_C_RBV    | lock counter

VME32:RTR1:CLEAR_DIAG_COUNTERS 1 | reset counter

router lock state

it is a 16bit hex number. for example, a good lock state is 17668 = 0x4504 = bx0100 0101 0000 0100

The bit is read like this: ( first bit is the most left bit )

bit-01 | Lock Error     |  0
bit-02 | All Lock       |  1
bit-03 | not use        |  0
bit-04 | not use        |  0
bit-05 | L init state 8 |  0
bit-06 | L init state 4 |  1
bit-07 | L init state 2 |  0
bit-08 | L init state 1 |  1
bit-09 | CPLD 8         |  0
bit-10 | CPLD 4         |  0
bit-11 | CPLD 2         |  0
bit-12 | CPLD 1         |  0
bit-13 | Fast str       |  0
bit-14 | R Lock         |  1
bit-15 | NIM in A       |  0
bit-16 | NIM in B       |  0

The db file

The IOC will load the database at boot up, the database is stored at /global/devel/gretTop/9-22/dgsIoc/db.

Here are the PV extracted from the dgsGlobals_HELIOS_VME01.db

=========================== Global PV
VME01:GLBL:master_fifo_reset
VME01:GLBL:ext_disc_src
VME01:GLBL:user_package_data
VME01:GLBL:win_comp_min
VME01:GLBL:win_comp_max
VME01:GLBL:channel_enable
VME01:GLBL:pileup_mode
VME01:GLBL:preamp_reset_delay_en
VME01:GLBL:trigger_polarity
VME01:GLBL:dropped_event_count_mode
VME01:GLBL:enable_dec_pause
VME01:GLBL:write_flags
VME01:GLBL:decimation_factor
VME01:GLBL:event_count_mode
VME01:GLBL:ahit_count_mode
VME01:GLBL:disc_count_mode
VME01:GLBL:event_extention_mode
VME01:GLBL:pileup_extention_mode
VME01:GLBL:counter_reset
VME01:GLBL:pileup_waveform_only_mode
VME01:GLBL:led_threshold
VME01:GLBL:preamp_reset_delay
VME01:GLBL:CFD_fraction
VME01:GLBL:raw_data_length
VME01:GLBL:raw_data_window
VME01:GLBL:d_window
VME01:GLBL:k0_window
VME01:GLBL:k_window
VME01:GLBL:m_window
VME01:GLBL:d3_window
VME01:GLBL:d2_window
VME01:GLBL:disc_width
VME01:GLBL:baseline_start
VME01:GLBL:p1_window
VME01:GLBL:dac_channel_select
VME01:GLBL:dac_attenuation
VME01:GLBL:p2_window
VME01:GLBL:DIAG_DISC_SEL
VME01:GLBL:DIAG_WAVE_SEL
VME01:GLBL:load_delays
VME01:GLBL:phase_hunt
VME01:GLBL:load_baseline
VME01:GLBL:diag_mux_control
VME01:GLBL:holdoff_time
VME01:GLBL:auto_mode
VME01:GLBL:peak_sensitivity
VME01:GLBL:baseline_delay
VME01:GLBL:delay
VME01:GLBL:diag_input
VME01:GLBL:diag_input_en
VME01:GLBL:ext_disc_sel
VME01:GLBL:ext_disc_ts_sel
VME01:GLBL:rj45_discbit_mode
VME01:GLBL:rj45_throttle_mode
VME01:GLBL:output_mode
VME01:GLBL:manual_data
VME01:GLBL:veto_gate_width 
VME01:GLBL:master_logic_enable
VME01:GLBL:diag_isync
VME01:GLBL:counter_mode
VME01:GLBL:master_counter_reset
VME01:GLBL:BGO_discbit_select
VME01:GLBL:veto_enable
VME01:GLBL:cfd_mode
VME01:GLBL:trigger_mux_select
VME01:GLBL:tracking_speed
VME01:GLBL:ts_err_count_ctrl
VME01:GLBL:sd_rx_pwr
VME01:GLBL:sd_local_loopback_en
VME01:GLBL:sd_pem
VME01:GLBL:sd_tx_pwr
VME01:GLBL:sd_sync
VME01:GLBL:sd_line_loopback_en
VME01:GLBL:sd_sm_stringent_lock
VME01:GLBL:sd_sm_lost_lock_flag
VME01:GLBL:dc_balance _enable
VME01:GLBL:config_main_fpga
VME01:GLBL:config_diag_fpga
VME01:GLBL:rst_main_fpga
VME01:GLBL:rst_flash
VME01:GLBL:config_override
VME01:GLBL:clk_select
VME01:GLBL:flash_mode
VME01:GLBL:vme_sandboxA
VME01:GLBL:vme_sandboxB
VME01:GLBL:vme_sandboxC
VME01:GLBL:vme_sandboxD

Gloabl PV found : 87

=========================== MDIG PV
VME01:MDIG1:ext_disc_src
VME01:MDIG1:channel_enable
VME01:MDIG1:pileup_mode
VME01:MDIG1:preamp_reset_delay_en
VME01:MDIG1:trigger_polarity
VME01:MDIG1:dropped_event_count_mode
VME01:MDIG1:enable_dec_pause
VME01:MDIG1:write_flags
VME01:MDIG1:decimation_factor
VME01:MDIG1:decimation_factor
VME01:MDIG1:event_count_mode
VME01:MDIG1:ahit_count_mode
VME01:MDIG1:disc_count_mode
VME01:MDIG1:event_extention_mode
VME01:MDIG1:pileup_extention_mode
VME01:MDIG1:counter_reset
VME01:MDIG1:pileup_waveform_only_mode
VME01:MDIG1:led_threshold
VME01:MDIG1:preamp_reset_delay
VME01:MDIG1:CFD_fraction
VME01:MDIG1:raw_data_length
VME01:MDIG1:raw_data_window
VME01:MDIG1:d_window
VME01:MDIG1:k0_window
VME01:MDIG1:k_window
VME01:MDIG1:m_window
VME01:MDIG1:d3_window
VME01:MDIG1:d2_window
VME01:MDIG1:disc_width
VME01:MDIG1:baseline_start
VME01:MDIG1:p1_window
VME01:MDIG1:ext_disc_sel
VME01:MDIG1:clk_select

MDIG PV found : 33