CalibrationController

Overall high-level responsibility for running the stages in a calibration is given to the CalibrationController.

<CalibrationControllerImpl>

Note that this procedure wont work for scans of BOC variables, which arent stored in ABCDModule structures. These need to be separately stored and restored - I cant see where this is done - could this be the source of the Raw/Cooked hygiene problem? AJB.

New Version (March 2005)

• Start API
  • (api requests) Configuration -> Api
  • Run Controller Config
    • (CC-rc requests) Api -> PHYSICS, CALIBRATION (multi-set)
    • (CC-rc requests) PHYSICS -> Module
  • Start Sequence
    • Start Test
      • cc requests API autoUpdateBanks(SCAN)
      • Setup Scan
        • (api does) api -> SCAN
      • Start Scan
        • (api does) SCAN->Module
        • (api modifies scanned variable to final scan point)
      • End Scan
        • (api modifies SCAN cache to be same as last point in scan)
        • api uses SCAN config for histo output
      • (further scans as required)
    • End Test
      • (cc requests) CALIBRATION -> Api (gets local ROD cache)
      • could potentially add a copy of CALIBRATION->SCAN here ... (for performance)
    • Analysis
      • cc requests API autoUpdateBanks(SCAN,CALIBRATION)
        • (cc does) Update in Api
        • (cc requests) Api -> CALIBRATION (compare with cache and send relevant parts) --> could be modified to update CALIBRATION bank directly?
      • cc requests API autoUpdateBanks(none)
  • End Sequence
    • (cc requests) PHYSICS -> Module
• End of Run
  • (ConfigService? RC requests) CALIBRATION-> configuration

See MergingPageForNewPrimitives

As implemented for Release 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

• Start API
  • Configuration -> Api
  • Api -> PHYSICS
  • Api -> SCAN
  • RC Config
    • PHYSICS -> Module
  • Start Sequence
    • Start Test
      • Api->CALIBRATION
      • Modify in Api
      • doScan
        • Api->SCAN (Api)
        • SCAN->Module (Api)
        • SCAN->Api(Api)
    • End Test
    • CALIBRATION->Api
    • Update
    • Start Test
      • As before
    • End Test
    • Api->CALIBRATION
  • End Sequence
• Confirm update
  • Api->PHYSICS
• Update Configuration
  • Api->Configuration

Problems with this version:

• Uses the VME interface too much (ie Api->* and *->Api)
• Api->Calibration for each scan is unnecessary
• Should only do for each test
• Other optimisations would require copy primitive in ROD, see below

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Other ConfigurationPerformanceImprovements