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HOST PC CONNECTION
8.1 PCI Express interface
The MTCA, and PXIE versions of the digitizer use PCI Express generation 1 and 2 electrical interface
to communicate with the host PC. The PCIe version of the digitizer support up to 8 lanes and the MTCA
version support up to 4 lanes.
8.2 Using several units
8.2.1
Using several digitizers from a single application.
Several digitizers can be connected to the same PC.
Each unit is then available and can be accessed individually.
Each software command contains a pointer to the control unit for all ADQ digitizers and an instance
number that points out the current ADQ.
To identify a specific unit, read the serial number
the instance number and a physical unit.
The record header
(Table
card. This gives a mapping between physical unit and data.
8.2.2
Using several digitizers from a several applications.
When several separate applications or threads are used for talking to different digitizers the commands
and
ListDevices
OpenDevice
able digitizers to the same application.
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4) contains a byte field (User ID) where the user can set an identifier for each
has to be used.
FindDevices
. This gives a mapping between
will not work since
FindDevices
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