Using IPbus

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Use case

IPbus is a control protocol that uses UDP/IP to send values into the registries on the readout unit (RU). Hardware Access Library (uHAL) is used on the host computer to send the commands.

Configuration files

There is a main connection file pRU-connections.xml, this file contains the address and port of the RU, for information on the content of the connection file please see the pRU Ethernet Configuration document.

Following there is a Module registers file (module-address.xml), this file contains a table with all the registries present in the RU.

Finally, there are files for each register

• global_regs.xml
• trigger_manager.xml
• offload.xml
• alpide_control.xml
• alpide_data.xml

PTB-specific Module R

As of the writing of this page, these files can be found on the production_test repository in the ipbus fork under the BSP folder.