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). The software on the host computer uses the Hardware Access Library (uHAL) to send the commands to the RU.

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

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

WARNING: To prevent undefined behavior the registers' files MUST match the firmware version!