68.6. Running CCUSBReadout

Specifies the serial number of the CCUSB the program will use. See --enumerate below. If not provided, the first CCUSB located will be used. If you only have one CCUSB connected to your system, this is suitable.

Specifies the ring buffer in which event data will be put by the program. By default this is the same as the username you are logged in on .

Specifies the filename that contains the data acquisition configuration script. This defaults to ~/config/daqconfig.tcl

Specifies the filename that contains the slow controls configuration script. This defaults to ~/config/controlconfig.tcl. Note that this file is required even if it is just an empty file.

Specifies the name of a script that will be run in the interpreter just prior to starting the interpreter's command/event loop.

Specifies the port on which the slow controls server listens for connections. This defaults to 27000. The value of thie parameter can be either an intger port number or the special string managed.

If the value is managed CCUSBReadout will work with the NSCL port manager to allocate and advertise itself on a managed port. The port will be advertised as CCUSBReadout:controller Where controller is the serial number of the controller or FirstController if no specific serial number was requested.

Requests that the software list the serial numbers of the CCUSB devices currently attached to the system and exit. Note that the serial 'numbers' are actually strings of the form CCnnnn where nnnn is a number. One of these strings can be handed to the --serialno to select the CCUSB to use.

Sample output:

/usr/opt/daq/10.1/bin/CCUSBReadout --enumerate
CC-USB scriptable readout version V2.0
[0] : CC0134

                        

If a --timestamplib option is present, events will have a full body header and the integer value of this switch determines the value of the source id.

The value of this option is a path to a shared object library. If present, the library must have a C compatible entry point named getTimestamp. If not supplied all events will have abbreviated body headers and no timestamps will be present.

The library is dynamically loaded into the readout program and getTimestamp is called for each event. getTimestamp receives a single null pointer parameter, which points to the event and is supposed to return a uint64_t value that is that event's timestamp.

If the library has a further entry named onBeginRun, taking no parametesr and having no return value, this funtion is called when the run starts.