Master/Slave Card Operations - HBM Genesis GEN5i User Manual

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In Slave mode:
the top connector is configured as slave input, all other connectors are
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unused
all received signals are transferred to a bus for internal distribution
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internal slave trigger signals are transferred to the outside
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In Stand-alone mode:
Stand-alone mode is OFF: the Master/Slave card does not communicate
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with other Master/Slave cards.
Fiber optic cable
The Master/Slave card has optical I/O (IN/OUT) that connects to other Master/
Slave cards.
The fiber optic cable:
allows up to a 500 m cable between the master and each slave
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distributes the sampling clock, absolute time info, trigger and start/stop
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signals between mainframes, creating a real high channel synchronized
system out of the nine mainframes
enables a timing accuracy between the mainframes less than 100 ns
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11.7.1

Master/Slave card operations

The Master/Slave card is easily inserted into the GEN series mainframe and is
automatically recognized by the Perception software. A Master/Slave card can
be used as a master or slave. One card is required in the master mainframe
and one card is required per slave mainframe. Each card has eight LC
connectors for the fiber optic cable.
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