ACD Software scalar documentation
Monday, July 19, 2004 2:29 PM
JJ Russell
OVERVIEW
The
software accumulates three distinct sets of numbers and uses both the GEM and
ACD contributions as input to from the output record)
SUMMARY STATISTICS
The
first 9 32-bit numbers are arranged a 3 x 3 array
giving the status of the GEM and ACD contributions. The next 7
are spares for future expansion. Either contribution (GEM/ACD) may
be
Currently
the GEM contribution can generate no internal errors. About the only thing that
I could think of was that the length of the GEM contribution did not match the
expectation (the length of the GEM contribution is constant). The ACD
contribution, however, can generate internal consistency errors, so things may
show up in this category. As soon as I have a good idea of what to check for, I
may change the GEM contribution to check for consistency also.
The
3x3 numbers are laid out as
Value Meaning
0 Present&Ok
1 Present&InError
2 Missing
So,
for example, entry 0 is both ACD and GEM Present and OK. The GEM is the faster
moving index. See EMP/ASC.h for details; its the ASC_SUMMARY enumeration. Naturally, there really is
no category called Missing&InError.
Here
is a formatted view of these numbers from a test set of data. You can tell it
is a test set since all events have both GEM and ACD contributions in the
Present & Ok state; i.e. everything is perfect.
Counting Statistics
+--------------------------+
|
GEM |
+--------------+-----------------+--------+
| Total Events | PRESENT
| |
|
+-----------------+ MISSING|
| 186 |
OK | ERROR | |
+---+---+------+--------+--------+--------+
| | P | OK |
186| 0|
0|
| A | R +------+--------+--------+--------+
| E | S | ERR |
0| 0|
0|
| M +---+------+--------+--------+--------+
| | MISSING |
0| 0|
0|
+---+----------+--------+--------+--------+
What
to do about events with missing contributions
There
was a design decision I had to make; what to do with events having a
missing contribution. The decision was to update the remaining statistics as
best I could. This causes no confusion for the CNO statistics, since either the
ACD contribution is present (in which case they are accumulated) or the ACD
contribution is absent (in which case, surprise, surprise, they aren't
accumulated). However the tile statistics block does mix the two contributions
in a way which is obvious once you read what is being accumulated, so a missing
ACD or GEM contribution could distort the statistics. For the application
currently targeted, testing of the ACD, this seemed like a reasonable
compromise. (If I carry these counters into the FSW proper, I'll probably
separate the tile statistics into 3 classes; ACD only, GEM only; ACD&GEM
both present.)
CNO Statistics
The
CNO statistics block is a block of 4 numbers for each of the 6 A/B board pairs.
The four numbers for each board pair represent the number of events where
For
reasons of efficiency, category 0 (CNO signal was absent on both boards) is not
accumulated, but can be easily gleaned from the data by subtracting the sum of
the other 3 categories from the total number of events accumulated.
Here
is a formatted example (note that I didn't even bother with the CNO signal
absent of both boards category).
CNO Statistics
--------------
1LA: 36 2LA:
0 2RA: 36 3LA: 114
4LA: 0 4RA: 0
1RB: 0
2LB: 0 2RB:
0 3RB: 0
4LB: 0 4RB: 0
Both: 0 Both: 0
Both: 0 Both: 0
Both: 0 Both: 0
TILE Statistics
Ah,
the main course. On a per tile basis, an array of 32 counters is accumulated.
The index of this array (running from 0->31) is actually a bit mask of the
status of the 5 differ rent bits associated with each tile. The index is formed
as follows
So,
a counter at array index of 31 (0x1f) have all 5 bits set. Note also that,
again for efficiency reasons, index 0, no bits set, is not accumulated, but can
be had be subtracting the sum of all the other entries from the total number of
events.
Why
did I choose this method?
Depending
on the setting of the discriminators one would certainly expect various strong
correlations. For example, all things being equal (efficiency collection, light
transport, photo-tube gains, amplifier gains, discriminator setting etc), one
would expect a high correlation between the A and B readouts of the same tile.
One can check if there is consistency by beating the 5 signals
against each other.
Tile
Order
The
tiles arrays are arranged in 4 arrays of 32. These 4 arrays or 32
tiles and the order within the 32 tiles match the order of the tiles in
the GEM data (bit 0 = array index 0). This ordering of the tiles was another
design decision, but a somewhat easier one than the previous decision on what
to do when an ACD or GEM contribution was missing. The order could have been by
electronics, essentially following the board order, or it could have been (as
was chosen) by the more geometrical order as presented by the GEM data. I
choose the latter for two reasons
Basically,
I didn't want to destroy any information. Naturally I can't preserve all
the information present in the raw data, but I thought this
scheme allowed for preserving some of the more interesting
correlations.
SUGGESTIONS ON USAGE
The
software I provided only does 2 things interesting to you,
accumulates the statistics and clears the statistics. The starting/stopping and
when to clear is purely a LATTE control functionality.
I would suggest that one use the CLEAR function sparingly. I would suggest
whenever one wished to issue a clear, instead one read
the statistics at that point and make it a base-line set. Display of subsequent
readings would then subtract this base-line set to get the delta.
This
scheme has two advantages.