The Online Error Control and Handling of the ALICE Pixel Detector
2009
The SPD forms the two innermost layers of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) [1]. The basic building block of the SPD is the half-stave, the whole SPD barrel being made of 120 half-staves with a total number of 9.8 x 10 readout channels. Each half-stave is connected via three optical links to the off-detector electronics made of FPGA based VME readout cards (Routers). The Routers and their mezzanine cards provide the zero-suppression, data formatting and multiplexing and the link to the DAQ [2] system. This paper presents the hardware and software tools developed to detect and process any errors, at the level of the Router, originating from either front-end electronics, trigger sequences, DAQ or the off-detector electronics. The on-line error handling system automatically transmits this information to the Detector Control System and to the dedicated ORACLE database for further analysis.
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