Release Notes for P01-06-00 (last updated 06/16/2003):

The previous release notes is located here.

This release contains the Brasília release of Flight Software interface libraries which are documented here:

 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/exp/glast/flight/sw/ug/cr.html

VxWorks Related:

• libgaem.o library has been renamed to libvaem.o. The library libgaem.o will be used for the real AEM in the future.
• The startup scripts load two additional libraries libvxw_defsym.o and libgdab.o. See the above link for more information on these libraries.

Documentation:

• Doxygen documentation tool (www.doxygen.org) will be used from now on for creating API online documentation as well as for the user's manual. All sub-systems contributing scripts are advised to use doxygen syntax when adding source comments.
• The current distribution contains doxygen documentation in HTML as well as compressed HTML (CHM) format for full-text searching.
• A changelog file since the last public release can also be found in the installation directory.

Hippodraw:

• Hippodraw version 1.0 have been included with this release. Since hippo releases occur more frequent than LATTE releases a separate installation for Hippodraw is provided under the updates page on the I&T Online web site.

Functional blocks and registers:

• For ACD, certain GARC registers have been renamed based on the ICD document. The old register names have been deprecated. Look here for a list of deprecated registers.
• Deprecated GGLT registers AEM_COUNTER_MASK and AEM_COUNTER, use COUNTER_MASK and COUNTER instead. Look here for a list of deprecated registers.
• If a deprecated register is used in a script, the commanding will succeed but a warning message will be produced.
• Added new error codes for AEM. These are:
  • GA_ERR_PARITY
  • GA_ERR_CMD_DATA

  See Brasília release notes for more information.

RunControl:

• At the end of every run, the hardware version numbers are only retrieved for the components that exists in the schema selected for the run. Also the hardware versions are only retrieved during the first run and cached afterwards.
• The status panel is now a dockable window which can be detached from the main window.
• Added a dockable comment panel which is provided for the operator to enter run related comments. The comments are saved with the run report.
• In the status panel, if the FITS output is disabled, it is highlighted in red.
• Added two alias completion status constants COMPL_STATUS_FAILED and COMPL_STATUS_PASSED which are available to the user scripts.
• The cursor now shows an hourglass while the version info is retrieved.
• User scripts can now access the FSM using the following syntax:

self.gui.getFSM()

This allows the user script control the state transitions programmatically.

• The application loader temporarily changes the directory in case the application needs to load additional modules from the same directory.
• User list is now sorted alphabetically and the last user is recalled on startup.
• Configuration is applied for every run now.
• The run id is assigned before calling the user script's startRun() method so that the user script can have access to it.

Command Server:

• Added GASU support for commanding to EBM, GEM and CRU.
• Added remote reset command to programmatically reset the SBC.
• All commands except quit and version return the timestamp of execution back to the client. The timestamp can be queried using the getTimestamp() method of the register.

Event Server:

• Added verbosity option as a command line parameter.
• Let the event be sent in case of END_RUN_MARKER even if DONOT_SEND_EVENTS mode is set.

Event Client:

• Added forcePrint option to the dump of the error contribution so that the errors can be printed even if the
  debug mode is off.

Testsuite:

• Modified the test scripts which modify the TEM DATA_MASKS register to issue a CMD_RESET first.
• Added test_gasu.py for GASU testing.
• Added simpleGasuSchema.xml to repos directory for GASU testing
• Added DeadStripsOutput.xml, badStrips.dtd, minitower_config_slac0.xml, minitower_config_slac1.xml,
  minitower_schema_slac.xml to demonstrate the use of multiple configuration sections and the <include> tag.

Schema and Configuration:

• The directory is temporarily changed to where the schema files are when loading the schema and its supporting files. If the include files do not have a path specified then assume the current directory and append the current path to the filename.
• Added support for GASU tags and registers in the schema and configuration sections.
• Deprecated module gTemplate has now been removed from the distribution. Please use the modules gLAT and gSchemaConfig instead.
• Added support for multiple configurations.
• Added support for dead and noisy channels.
• Added <include> tag support.
• Added fix for the case when XML file had extra spaces after the tag.

Version Information:

(Retrieved by running versions.bat while in /Online directory)
The modules ending with _FW denote COMM board firmware and the modules ending with _HW denote COMM board hardware revisions.

versions.bat file now reports the current release number (ie. P01-06-00 for this release)

Also qt, pyqt and hippo versions are reported as well.

Module	Version
EBF	1.0.0
GAEM	2.1.0.1
GAEM_FW	3.1
GAEM_HW	1.1
GGLT	1.3.5.0
GGLT_FW	AEM: 3.1, TEM: 2.2
GGLT_HW	1.1
GNAT	1.0.20.0
GTEM	libgtem.o1.3.2.0 libgtem_nrl.o 1.3.2.1 libgtem_tkrV5.o 1.3.2.2
GTEM_FW	2.2
GTEM_HW	1.1
PyQt	3.5
Python	0x20202f0
XBRD	0.0.3.0
XBRD_FW	1.2
XBRD_HW	1.1
cmdCli	1.32
cmdSvr	1.47
evtCli	1.52
evtSvr	1.52
gAttr	1.16
gConstraint	1.5
gEGU	1.4
gGroup	1.3
gLAT	1.26
gNode	1.21
gRule	1.3
gSchemaConfig	1.23
gutil	1.15
qt	3.1.1
sihippo	1.0
versions	1.23
Component	Version
TEM
GCRC
GTRC
AEM
GARC
GAFE

Please contact Selim Tuvi at stuvi@slac.stanford.edu or Ric Claus at claus@slac.stanford.edu if you have problems or any questions.
 

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