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How to make the arp command resistant to reboot on OS X.

Posted on February 15, 2016 by mki

For SIS3316 Ethernet operation you may want your OS X system to execute an arp command at startup. Thanks to Bela Farago from ILL for pointing us to the link below: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/123279/add-static-arp-entry-at-boot Needs a launchd daemon, which waits until the … Continue reading →

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IHEP Beijing reports stable ADS LINAC 1 operation with MTCA.4 based LLRF

Posted on January 26, 2016 by mki

IHEP Beijing reports stable operation of the ADS injector 1 at 10.7 mA beam current. The Proton LINAC is the first large scale accelerator in China based on a MTCA.4 LLRF system. Struck furnished SIS8300-L and L2 digitizer AMCs with … Continue reading →

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Fix for compilation error for SIS1100 Linux driver under kernel 4.2.x

Posted on December 2, 2015 by mki

Used Driver: sis1100-2.13-9 Error Description: Building errors: =============================== CC [M] /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.o /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c: In function ‘sis1100_ddma_unmap_block’: /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c:54:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vfree’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] vfree(block->desc_pages); ^ /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c: In function ‘sis1100_ddma_map_block’: /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c:130:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vmalloc’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] block->desc_pages=vmalloc(block->dsegs* sizeof(struct sis1100_dmapage)); … Continue reading →

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SIS3316 and SIS3316-DT support for optical Ethernet

Posted on August 5, 2015 by mki

Optical decoupling of data acquisition devices from the readout system is mandatory in some applications (like installation on a platform under high voltage).  In case of the SIS3316(-DT) 125MSPS 16-bit and 250 MSPS 14-bit digitizers optical decoupling can be established … Continue reading →

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SIS3316 new energy pickup index functionality

Posted on July 8, 2015 by mki

Ge detector preamplifier output signals tend to produce an overshoot at the beginning of the signal as shown in the scope screenshot below. This overshoot may vary in amplitude even for a fixed energy. A variation of the extracted energy … Continue reading →

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DESY DWC8300 – SIS8300-L2 results summary

Posted on June 17, 2015 by mki

The combination of the 10 channel DWC8300 (DESY nomenclature DRTM-DWC10) downconverter Rear Transition Module (RTM) and the 10 channel 125 MSPS SIS8300-L2 MTCA.4 digitizer will be used in the European XFEL for Low Level Radio Frequency (LLRF) controls. A spectral … Continue reading →

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SIS3316 featured in NRL NIM A article: Fast-neutron, coded-aperture imager

Posted on June 9, 2015 by mki

The R.S. Woolf, et al, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A (2015) article describes an organic scintillator based -12×12 pseudo random- coded-aperture imager, in which two SIS3316-250-14 are used for PSD (pulse shape discrimination) and pulse height analysis. … Continue reading →

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TTL Control I/O option for SIS3316 available

Posted on June 5, 2015 by mki

The TTL control I/O option for the SIS3316 is finally available. It conists of two piggy cards that can be installed on new units or retrofitted on existing boards in the factory or by skilled electronics workshop personnel. The outputs … Continue reading →

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SIS3820 Firmware with new LNE/CIP Features

Posted on December 13, 2014 by mki

Thanks to Mark Rivers from the University of Chicago for proposing  the incorporation of LNE/CIP delay, stretcher and invert functionality into the SIS3820 Multi Purpose Scaler firmware to facilitate the use of the LNE/CIP output to interface to external hardware. The … Continue reading →

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Installation of SIS1100 driver under CENTOS7

Posted on November 12, 2014 by mki

Issue: Installation of SIS1100 driver in a new work station with CENTOS7 results in  error message upon compilation: make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/build SUBDIRS=/home/dacq/SIS1100/sis1100-2.13-9/dev/pci modules make: *** /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/build: No such file or directory.  Stop. make: *** [driver] Error 2 Solution: Installation of the … Continue reading →

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