UVa decoder

A modified version of the UVa MPD4 decoder.

main change

• changed the bank number and the tag
• change the data search structure of the 'inputhandler.cpp' so as to decode the PRex data
• changed the grephic out style

pedestal generator instructions

1. check the whether the mapping match the prex mapping

2. change the config/gem.cfg file

# runType
RUNTYPE: CalPedestal
# pedestal
SAVEPED: ./Pedestal/     // this is the file name of the generated pedestal
# # Input File for physics analysis; NOT FOR OTHER TYPE ANALYSIS

INPUTFILE:   //  the pedestal raw run file name

3. generate the pedestal

./mpd4_decoder

4. save the file to the prex database

• it will generate a file named PRex_Pedestal.txt
• this file is conpatible with the standard prex pedestal, need to replace the pedestal in the prex database

New features

1. add function to take standalone configure file

Option 1.

./mpd4_decoder

# it will load the default configure file which located in folder ./config/gem.cfg

Option 2.

./mpd4_decoder config.cfg
# it will load config.cfg instead of using the default ./config/gem.cfg file

RUN LIST

16-Jun-2019

• Pedestal Run 1371 20513

23-Aug-2019

• Pedestal Run 2155, 21297

03-Sep-2019

• Pedestal Run 2303, 21425
• HV off
• pulse trigger

Current Work

• add the function to take configure file when run the scrips
• check whay some of then dataframe have missing channels

issues

• missing channel for some frame
• one HRS, the noise is much higher than the other