mtdc

Supplies the modules VME base address. The base-address value must match the base address as set in the module rotary switches.

Defines the module's id. This value appears in the id field of the data returned by the device. The -id value is 8 bits wide and therefore can be an unsigned value between 0 and 255.

Sets the interrupt priority level for interrupt requests from this module. The -ipl value can be between 0 and 7. A value of 0 disables interrupts.

Provides the VME status id put on the bus when the module generates an interrupt. The MTDC issues an 8 bit status id. Therefore this value can be between 0 and 255

Determines the minimum number of 32 bit words the module must have buffered before it interrupts. When an event has been buffered, if the number of words in the module FIFO is larger than the -irqthreshold value, an interrupt will be requested if enabled.

The FIFO is 32K 32 bit words long so this value can be between 0 and 0x7fff

When the module is in multi-event mode 3, this sets a soft limit on the number of 32 bit words that can be transferred from the module before it issues a BERR. The limit is soft in that complete events are always transferred.

Determins how the event is padded for alignment. while the values 8, 16, 32 and 64 are all legal, in pratice since the events are multiples of 32 bit words, only the latter two values are meaningful. If the value 64 is chosen then if necessary 32 bit words containing 0xffff are added to the event data to pad it out to the next 64 bit boundary.

Enables or disables multi-event mode. If limited is used, the -datalen specification is used as well.

If true then at the end of the read rather than asserting BUSERR return data with the top two bits set to 10 indicating an end of buffer.

If true, then the -maxtransfers value is taken to be the number of events rather than the number of words.

Determines what the value in the event correlation field of the data means.

Only relevant in trigger matching mode when this determines if the gates are ored in to both banks (yes or if they affect individual banks of 16 channels (no).

Sets the TDC resolution. This is only relevant in trigger matching modes as the timestamping mode resolution is always 3.9ps. Allowed values are 500ps 250ps 125ps 62.5ps 31.3ps 15.6ps 7.8ps and 3.9ps.

Determines if the data are time differences from the gate (trigger matching mode) or full timestamps (timestamping mode).

Determines when the matching window for trigger matching mode starts relative to the gate. -bank1winstart is only relevant with the -joinedbanks is false. This value is a number between 0 and 32767 where the vaslue 16384 means the window starts with the gate, larger values delay the start and smaller values start the matching window prior to the gate.

Determines the width of the trigger matching window. The width value is in nanoseconds and can be 0 through 16383, giving a range of 16 microseconds.

-bank1winwidth is only meaningful if the -joinedbanks is disabled.

The actual triggering of the module is quite flexible. These options allow you to specify how the module is triggered. -bank1triggersource is only meaningful if -joinedbanks is off.

The valid values for the trigger-spec are:

If true, only the first hit from the bank is transmitted. Otherwise all hits in the bank's trigger matching window are transmitted.

Determines which signal edge is timed.

If this parameter is true, the ECL Trn input is terminated by the module. If not that input is unterminated.

If true, the ECL reset input is terminated otherwise it is unterminated.

If true then the ECL trig1 input is treated as an oscillator that is suitable for incrementing the timestamp. Note that you must also set the -timingsource option properly as well to actually ulse this input as the timestamp clock.

If true, the trigger comes from the ECL inputs, otherwise it comes from the NIM inputs. This is an exclusive setting (see register 0x6068 documentation e.g.)

The nim TRIG1 input can be used to supply a clock pulse train for the timestamp. See -timingsource which must be set properly as well.

Describes the function of the busy output:

If true, the test pulser is active

Sets the pulser pattern, which determines which channels are pulsed.

When the modue is jumpered for unipolar inputs, this value determines the threshold used to determine when a signal has happened on the inputs to bankn. If you are doing this read the manual carefully

Determines the timing source for the timestamp clock. If vme the 16Mhz backplane clock specified by the VME standard is used. If external, You must have configured one of -ecltrig1isoscillator or -nimtrig1isoscillator to be true in which case the associated input is used as the source for the timestamp clock.

Sets the scaledown of the timestamp clock input. This is a 16 bit value and the value 0 means division by 65536.

The bank0 number of channels that must be present to define an event (note that if -joinedbanks is true this multiplicity is over both banks).

The largest number of channels that must be present to define an event for bank0 or both banks if -joinedbanks is true.

If banks are not joined the low multiplicity required for an event from bank 1.

If banks are not joined, the high multiplicity allowed for an event from bank1.