The compile and install the fmcadc100m14b4ch device driver you need
first to export the path to its direct dependencies, and then you
execute ``make``. This driver depends on the `zio`_ framework and `fmc`_ library; on a VME system it depends also on the VME bridge driver from CERN BE-CO.
execute ``make``. This driver depends on the `zio`_ framework and
`fmc`_ library; on a VME system it depends also on the VME bridge
driver from CERN BE-CEM.
::
$ cd /path/to/fmc-adc-100m14b4cha-sw/kernel
$ cd /path/to/fmc-adc-100m14b4cha/software/kernel
$ export LINUX=/path/to/linux/sources
$ export ZIO=/path/to/zio
$ export FMC=/path/to/fmc-sw
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@@ -106,18 +108,18 @@ temp_calib_period=NUMBER
Device Abstraction
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This driver is based on the ZIO framework and the fmc-bus. It supports
initial setup of the board; it allows users to manually configure the
board, to start and stop acquisitions, to force trigger, to read
acquisition time-stamps and to read acquired samples.
This driver is based on the ZIO framework. It supports initial setup
of the board; it allows users to manually configure the board, to
start and stop acquisitions, to force trigger, to read acquisition
time-stamps and to read acquired samples.
The driver is designed as a ZIO driver. ZIO is a framework for
input/output hosted on http://www.ohwr.org/projects/zio.
ZIO devices are organized as csets (channel sets), and each of them
includes channels. This device offers one cset and four channels.
However, the device can only stores interleaved data for all four
channels.
includes channels. All channels belonging to the same cset trigger
together. This device offers one cset with four channels. However,
the device can only stores interleaved data for all four channels.
The current approach to this is defining 5 channels: channels 0 to 3 are
the actual input connectors, and their software counterpart is used to
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@@ -174,7 +176,7 @@ The Channel Set
The ADC has 1 Channel Set named ``cset0``. Its attributes are used to
control the ADC state machine, the channel parameters and so on.
Some attributes are channel-specific, and one may thing they should live
Some attributes are channel-specific, and one may think they should live
at channel-level. Unfortunately, ZIO currently lacks the mechanisms to
convey channel attributes in the meta-data associated with an
interleaved acquisition (where several channels coexist), and for this
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@@ -520,10 +522,7 @@ write-only device files (in this case they are both read-only).
If more than one board is probed for, you'll have two or more similar
pairs of devices, differing in the dev_id field, i.e. the ``0200`` shown
above. The dev_id field is built using the PCI bus and the devfn octet;
the example above refers to slot 0 of bus 2. (Most of the time each
PCI-E physical slot is mapped as a bus, so the slot number is usually
zero).
above. The dev_id field is assigned by the Linux kernel platform subsystem.
The ADC hardware does not allow to read data from a specific channel;
data is only transferred as an interleaved block of samples. Neither the
