XIA, DXP-XMAP, Tango

The XIA DXP-XMAP is a multi-channel MCA that is operated from a windows computer, e.g.: haspxiproto. Linux users can login to this PC by:

 rdesktop -a 16 -g 90% -r disk:linux=${HOME}  haspxiproto &

or

 rdesktop -a 16 -g 1280x1024 -r disk:linux=${HOME}  haspp06xmap &

The server can be started from Astor.

The server uses the following ini file:

C:\Program Files\XIA\xManager 0.10.5\xmap_tango.ini

There is an application, xManager (provided by XIA), can be used to configure the system. It should also use the file xmap_tango.ini to store the changes. After the xManager saved the changes, the Tango server has to be re-started.

In general the XIA is operated on a gated mode. Be sure to terminate the TTL line with 50 Ohm near the XIA input.

Most of the XIA parameters are accessible via Tango attributes. They are explained in the document "Tango at Hasylab" which can be found on the Hasylab Computing pages.

The following lines show how two MCA are introduced to Online, file name: /online_dir/online.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<hw>
#
#
#
  <device>
    <name>mca10</name> 
    <type>mca</type> 
    <module>mca_xia</module>
    <device>pxi/exp/mca1</device> 
    <control>tango</control> 
    <hostname>haspxiproto:20000</hostname>
  </device>
  <device>
    <name>mca11</name> 
    <type>mca</type> 
    <module>mca_xia</module>
    <device>pxi/exp/mca2</device> 
    <control>tango</control> 
    <hostname>haspxiproto:20000</hostname>
  </device>
</hw>