EUDET Telescope Satellite

Name	EUDET Telescope
Subtitle	Constellation Satellite for controlling EUDET-type Beam Telescopes
Category	Readout Systems
Website	constellation/satellites/eudet-telescope

Description

This is a Constellation satellite to control the NI LabView data acquisition system of the EUDET-type beam telescopes equipped with MIMOSA26 sensors. In absence of documentation for the NI LabView system, this software is a direct port of the original EUDAQ2 Producer, including its peculiarities such as error code handling and configuration formatting.

Parameters

The following parameters are read and interpreted by this satellite. Parameters without a default value are required.

Parameter	Description	Type	Default Value
ip_address	IP address at which the NI LabView software is listening for commands	String	-
config_port	Port under which the NI LabView software receives commands	Unsigned integer	49248
data_port	Port at which the NI LabView software provides data	Unsigned integer	49250

The following parameters were not documented in the original code and their exact meaning is unclear.

Parameter	Type	Default Value
trigger_type	Unsigned Integer	1
det	Unsigned Integer	255
ni_version	Unsigned Integer	1
fpga_download	Unsigned Integer	1
num_boards	Unsigned Integer	6
mimosa_enabled	Bool array	{true, true, true, true, true, true}

Configuration Example

An example configuration for this satellite which could be dropped into a Constellation configuration as a starting point

[satellites.EudetTelescope.Datura]
ip_address = "192.168.22.2"

Metrics

The following metrics are distributed by this satellite and can be subscribed to.

Metric	Description	Value Type	Metric Type	Interval
TRIGGER_ID	Current trigger ID received from the NI LabView DAQ system	unsigned integer	LAST_VALUE	1s