XFT FAQ for shift crew and experts

This page answers questions about XFT monitoring and XFT hardware.
Please send any constructive comments to thomsone@fnal.gov

Consumer Operator TrigMon FAQ

1.What do the TrigMon XFT Canvases mean?

XFT Hardware FAQ

1.How to swap a linker board.

2.How to swap a finder board.

3.How to update the hardware database for one board (eg new serial number).

4.How to update the hardware database for many boards (eg new finder design).

5.How to update the Finder dead wire registers in the hardware database.

6.How to check XFT passes COLDSTART with run control.

7.How to book a partition and XFT resources only.

8.How to start XFT diagnostic GUI (xftdaq) and example configuration files (from CVS online repository) system.cfg myxft01.crate mytsi00.crate

9.How to run a linker internal connection test (xftdaq).

10.How to run a Finder to Linker to XTRP test (xftdaq).

11.How to run a XTC to Finder to Linker to XTRP test (xftdaq).

12.How to run a TDC to Finder test (capture test from Jay).

13.How to run cratemap (from Jay).

14.How to test a TDC/XTC pair in clean room teststand (from Jay).

15.How to compile xft teststand software.

XFT Daily/Weekly checks FAQ

List of Daily & Weekly XFT checks (for XFT expert carrying pager).

1.How to check TrigMon summary files.

2.How to check XFT plots in TrigMon root files.

3.How to check daq error files.

XFT Software FAQ

1.How to run xft monitoring code yourself.

2.How to make a stntuple with xft information.

3.How to analyse a stntuple with xft information.

4.How to analyse a TopNtuple with xft information. Coming soon

5.How to write AC++ code to read XFFD and XFLD bank (from Jong-young).

XFT Documentation and Links

1.CDF Public home page.

2.OSU Physics home page.

3.OSU CDF group home page.

4.XFT home page.

5.XFT finder specification (PDF).

6.XFT linker specification (PS).

7.XFT electronic logbook.

8.Description of XFT timing (PS).

9.Finder chip <-> linker input formatter chip map.

10.Finder <-> TDC map.

11.Finder <-> Linker <-> XTRP map.

12. Consumer home page.

13. Consumer how-to web page.

14. Consumer web page about how to view the output of consumer monitors

15. Consumer Status web page

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