Communication with the Control Module

Commands can be sent via USB-to-serial or via UDP (Ethernet). All commands are case-sensitive.

The following commands can be used:

To use in terminal: echo ‘help’ | netcat -u 192.168.0.108 8880 -w 1

USB-to-Serial communication

Use these settings:

• Baudrate: 9600 baud/s
• 8-bit data communication
• no parity bits
• one stop bit

Commands

All commands and arguments are case-sensitive.

General Commands

help

Returns the available commands, the IP and MAC address.

Arguments: None

debug mode

Turns the debug mode on or off

Arguments:

• mode: either on or off

SETDEV slot module_type

Configures a module. This command has to be run before module-specific commands can be used.

Arguments:

• slot: Slot of the rack. See Usage of the Slots. Allowed values range from 0 to 7.
• module_type: Type of module. Currently, these values are allowed: DAC4D, DAC4D, DAC4D, DAC4ETH, DAC16D.

reset

DAC4D Module

These commands are specific to the DAC4D module.

DAC4D mode slot output_channel voltage

Arguments:

• mode: either VS for single-ended voltage source (each of the two inner triax conductor is independent) or VSD for differential voltage source (given value is difference between inner triax conductors).

• slot: Slot of the rack. See Usage of the Slots. Allowed values range from 0 to 7.

• output_channel: Output on the module front panel. If mode is VS, this value can be between 0 and 7. If mode is VSD, this value can be between 0 and 3.

• voltage: voltage to apply in Volts. Ranges from -10V to 10V.

DAC16D Module

TODO: clean this up once a DAC16D has been tested

DAC 16 differential + 500mA 5V + 8V 1mA + 1 diff ADC

DAC16D VS [board (0 - 7)] [channel (0-31)] [voltage (-10/10)]

-DAC16D VSD [board (0 - 7)] [channel (-3-15) ] [voltage (-10/10)]

*ch -1 first half, ch -2 second, ch -3 all of them 

-DAC16D VR [board (0 - 7)] 

-DAC16D VSB [board (0 - 7)] [voltage (0 to 8)]

ADC4 Module

TODO: clean this up once a ADC4 has been tested

4ADC + 4DAC

-FAFD VR [board (0 - 7)] [channel (0-3)] 

-FAFD VS [board (0 - 7)] [channel (0-3)] [voltage (0/2.5)]

4DAC high current

-HIC4 VS [board (0 - 7)] [channel (0-3)] [voltage (TBD)]

4ADC differential

-ADC4D VRD [board (0 - 7)] [channel (0 - 4)]

DAC16 differential RJ45 Module

TODO: clean this up once a DAC16D has been tested DAC 16 differential RJ45

-DAC4ETH VS [board (0 - 7)] [channel (0-31)] [voltage (-10/10)]

-DAC4ETH VSD [board (0 - 7)] [channel (0-15) ] [voltage (-10/10)]