Startup procedure Cosmic-DCS
June 29 2006

Startup procedure of the CosmicRay DCS.

The DCS system of the NIKHEF CosmicRay stand is controlled by 2 PC's, both running WXP. One is called mierik, the other abeel. In june 2006 the JTAG loading is now performed by a so called PVSS manager. Whenever this manager (or server) causes problems, there is always the former Startup procedure.
  1. Login on both PC's (abeel and mierik):
    Account: admrobert
    Password: ******* (classified, but the same on both PC's)
  2. From the desktop of mierik start the following server:
    1. dns
    This is a Win32 console application and may be minimized.
  3. From the desktop of abeel start the Rasdim55 server. (If it is not there or it won't start, you may start it directly: D:\DCS\bin\Rasdim55\Rasdim55.exe). The following window should appear:


    The server is a Windows application and may be minimized. The upper left rectangular is meant for the images and the bottom scrollbar for the output and diagnostics.
  4. From the desktop of mierik start PVSS and select the CosmicsII project. Activate the 'Traffic light' button with the green light from the PVSS console and wait until all managers are started (and have a green status). Afterward the PVSS console and log-viewer may be minimized.


  5. As a result 2 panels should appear (MDM_BaseConsole & RDStartup):



    There are 2 main parts of the DCS: alignment and ELMB related items.
    The alignment is known as Rasdim. For normal use press Control Panel and the main Rasdim panel will appear. Set the delay to 2 (minutes) and select Start Run. From this moment on, the alignment runs.


    The ELMB part already runs. To check this select Temperature. A panel appears with a table of temperatures. Select Invalidate and all the connected sensors turn yellow. After a certain amount of time (but no longer than 30 seconds) most of them turn white again, indicating the system is active.

  6. Some remarks concerning JTAG: The JTAG manager (listed as PVSS00_JTAG_10 in the PVSS console panel) runs as server 0. The output of this manager appears in the PVSS LogViewer. While loading the JTAG strings, it might be helpful to open this viewer and see what happens.


Comments or questions? Please contact Robert Hart