Structure of the list-mode-data written by MBS

One List-Mode-Data readout event contains several trigger events. The number of these trigger events is adjustable by the v1495_trig_scal value of the V1495 FPGA Trigger Logic. Each trigger events consists of a number of 32 bit long data words. The type of word is identified by the 5 highest bit the so called GEO. Depending on this GEO the meaning of the different lower bits is shown in the list below.

The single Data words have the following bit-structure:

Time:

GEO = 0
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	0	0	0	0/1	Time / 100 ms

Bit 26 is 0 for real time and 1 for live time

real and live time are written once only after the stop acquisition signal (trigger type 15) as an end of acquisition flag (this doesn't work in the multi branch setup because of a bug in MBS)

Time Flag:

GEO = 1
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	0	0	1	Scaler Period / ms

the time flag is written as a header for the scaler data block and gives the time between each scaler readout

Scaler Values:

GEO = 2
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	0	1	0	Channel					Resol. R				Counts ( right shifted by R bits)

Assignment of the scaler channels

Scaler ch	Content
0	Gate of PMT 1
1	Gate of PMT 2
2	Coincidence
3	raw trigger = coincidence inhibited by veto
4	trigger = raw trigger with user defined length
5	downscaled trigger
6	LCLK = internal clock (40 MHz)
7	LCLK & veto
8	LCLK & !veto
9	N.C.
10	N.C.
11	QDC words
12	TDC words
13	TDC events
14	Veto words
15	LMD words
16	Accelerator
17	CFD of PMT 1
18	CFD of PMT 2
19	Start of Readout
20	micro second clock
21	N.C.
22	N.C.
23	N.C.
24	N.C.
25	N.C.
26	N.C.
27	N.C.
28	N.C.
29	N.C.
30	10 MHz-Pulser real
31	10 MHz-Pulser live

Veto Header:

GEO = 4
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	1	0	0	N = number of Veto length values follwing

Subsequent to this single data word N further words are following. Each word contains only one 32 bit value. Note, that the order of the bytes of these words has to be swapped. The meaning of each value is the length in units of 25 ns of the following signals:

consecutive number	Signal
1	QDC Busy
2	Total dead time
3	Trigger
4	Veto

QDC Header:

GEO = 6					2
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	Crate no.										memorized Ch.

QDC Data:

GEO = 6					0
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0				Channel			R				UN	OV	Measurement

R gives the range: 0 = low gain, 1 = high gain

Only Channel 0 and 1 are used correponding to PMT 1 and 2, respectively

TDC Data:

GEO = 7					1
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	1	1	1	1	Channel					Measurement

Assignment of TDC channels:

TDC Channel	Content
0	CFD of PMT1
1	N.C.
2	CFD of PMT 2
3	N.C.
4	Accelerator
5	N.C.
6	trigger
7	N.C.
8	veto start
9	N.C.
10	veto end
11	N.C.
12	TDC trigger
13	N.C.
14	40 usec clock
15	N.C.

TDC Trailer:

GEO = 7					0
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	1	1	1	0					Status						Word Counter

Trigger Time Tag:

GEO = 9
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	1	0	0	1	Trigger Time / 800 ns

Absorber Change Flag:

GEO = 27
31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
1	1	0	1	1																									new Absorber