Timing systems for RHIC

"What seest thou else, in the dark backward and abysm of Time?"

The Tempest

RHIC Event Link Timing System

• Overview of RHIC events.
  • Simple RHIC time line for Blue mini ramps as of 28 July, 1999.
  • Control of Snapshot events (ev-snapshot and bsb-tbtstart).
  • Spying on the event links.
• Hardware Description
• Musings about ATR timing events
• Dumps of database table "common_gddb..evlink" (Definition of table columns)
  • From computers outside the Operations firewall
    • Complete table (This could be a little stale.)
  • From computers behind the Operations firewall
    • Complete table
    • Complete table (comma separated)
    • Just the Name, code, and description «-Short version
    • ordered by code
• New policy for event code ZERO: the nonexistent event

Beam sync event system.

• V123 Beam Synchronous Encoder Module -- PAC'99 paper (HTML version)
• V124 Beam Sync Trigger Module
• Dumps of database table "common_gddb..bslink" (Definition of table columns)
  • From computers outside the Operations firewall
    • Complete table (This could be a little stale.)
  • From compters inside the Operations firewall
    • Complete table
    • Complete table (comma separated)
    • Just the Name, code, and description «-Short version

RTDL (real time data link)

• Hardware Description (Conference paper for PAC97)
• Some conversions for RTDL frames.
• Dumps of database table "common_gddb..rtlink" (Definition of table columns)
• From computers outside the Operations firewall
  • Complete table (This could be a little stale.)
• From compters inside the Operations firewall
  • list of RTDL frames
  • list of RTDL frames (comma separated)
  • list of RTDL frames Note: The NULL entries give wierd results.

Other useful items

• RHIC injection timing diagrams
  • normal configuration
  • dry-run configuration (compatible with undisturbed g-2 running.)
• BNL VME module hardware documentation

Mangled by Waldo MacKay (waldo@bnl.gov)