LPA vote Files

To build a LATC configuration every precinct must have vote file which specifies the intent behind the configuration. The vote file has several purposes:

1. to specify how register configuration is built;
2. to specify the registers controlled by that precinct and to give default values for those registers;
3. to select any need calibrations or other ancillary files needed to generate the configuration;
4. to specify any constants (such as a threshold level) needed to generate the configuration;
5. to specify the output LATC configuration files;
6. to specify any other output files that might be used by ground software tools.

The votes files all follow the same XML format. An example of that format is given just below. Each of the six functions described above is treated by an XML node and its children.

  <LATC_INTENT>
    <PREC_NAME>
      <method comment="Some comment">METHOD_NAME</method>
      <PREC_NAME-registers> 
        <one node for each type of register in the precinct>
      </PREC_NAME-regiserts>
      <PREC_NAME-anc>
        <one node for each ancillary file needed by the precinct>
      </PREC_NAME-anc>
      <PREC_NAME-constants>
        <one node for each input parameter needed by the precinct>
      </PREC_NAME-constants>
      <PREC_NAME-param>
        <one node for each ouput LATC parameter file made by the precinct>
      </PREC_NAME-param>
      <PREC_NAME-offline>
        <one node for each non-LATC output file made by the precinct>
      </PREC_NAME-offline>   
    </PREC_NAME>
  </LATC_INTENT>