TEM Communications Driver

Software User's Guide

Curt Brune

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
GLAST Flight Software

This document provides an overview of the driver software for the LAT COMM I/O Board, including command/response, triggering and event taking modes.

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Table of Contents
Background Documentation
1. Theory of Operation
2. Commanding
3. Event Taking
A. Response FIFO
B. Mini GLT
C. Virtual AEM
List of Tables
1. Background Documentation
A-1. Wire Count
B-1. Setting Flow Control
List of Figures
A-1. A two cell LATp packet
B-1. Structure of the Trigger register.
B-2. Structure of the trigger source mask in the Trigger Mask/Config register.
B-3. Structure of the trigger message
B-4. Structure of the initial event number and parity definition in the Trigger Mask/Config register.
B-5. Structure of the Options register.
C-1. I/O Lines for Virtual AEM setup.
C-2. Structure of the Virtual AEM software driver.
List of Examples
B-1. Calorimeter Calibration Strobe
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