SBC-RunControl

Data acquisition software for SBC.

Installing Dependencies

1. Install Miniconda3 or Anaconda3.
2. Open the main repository directory in a shell terminal. Run source ./init.sh to initialize the environment for run control. The script will do the following things:
   • Update conda.
   • If there is no conda environment called runcontrol, then create a new environment using dependencies/conra_rc.yml. If it already exists, then update the packages to satisfy the file.
   • Activate runcontrol environment and generate all ui and resources files.
   • Download arduino-cli program, initialize, and download necessary libraries including incbin and ArduinoJson.
3. Now it's good to go! Start the program by running python3 rc.py.

Documentations

• Program behavior: The states of operation of the run control program, and the bahavior of its submodules.
• Dependencies: A list of all dependencies and some tips on Qt usage.
• Project structure: Folders and files in this repository, and what do they do.
• Data structure: Definition of data files saved by run control and related modules.
  • Configuration: Master configuration json file used by run control software. Configuration files are generated from this file for each module.
  • Run Data: The run data is saved in the RunData tables in the slow control SQL database. There is one line per run.
  • Event Data: This data is saved in the SBC binary format using SBCBinaryFormat library at the end of each event.