Porting Existing Readout Software to Production Readout

Porting Existing Readout Software to Production Readout

This section describes how to port existing readout software to the production readout system. For information about the production readout software, see the user and programming documentation in http://docs.nscl.msu.edu

For illustrative purposes, we will assume that you start working in a directory whose contents are a subdirector named oldaq, and that oldaq contains an existing working readout program. Porting this working readout program is a matter of:

[ ]Obtaining the production readout skeleton in the `empty' directory.

[ ]Copying the appropriate files from your existing, working readout program to the `empty' directory.

[ ]Making slight modifications to the production readout skeleton and the existing, working software to adapt it to the production readout framework as a "traditional event segment".

[ ]Build and test your new readout software.

• Obtaining the production readout skeleton
• Copying the appropriate files from the working readout program
• Modifying your code to port to the new framework
• Build and test your readout program

Porting Existing Readout Software to Production Readout