There are multiple machines in the entire system:

1. One Roach-2 Revision-2
2. One NFS connected to Roach-2
3. Four Storage Nodes
4. One Computer (Main) to launch the entire execution.

To perform data acquisition from the ATOM frontend, the following software has to be installed apart from the required tools from CASPER.

1. Storage Nodes:
2. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
3. n2disk10g
4. Main:
5. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
6. Tshark

The following steps outline the entire data acquisition process. Every execution is done on Main unless otherwise specified.

1. Navigate to fpga, compile and generate the required bof file with the adcethvfullv64.mdl using Matlab, Xilinx Simulink and CASPER library. Or you can use the provided bof file.

2. Then copy the bof file to ../sw/nfs.

3. Copy sw/nfs to the NFS machine where the target directory is $HOME/boffiles.

4. Copy sw/node to each of the storage nodes where the target directory is $HOME/.

5. Go to sw/main/common, execute make.

6. Navigate to sw/main, open main.shand change the following lines according to your own platforms.

# This is the remote directory on 4 machines that you want to store data
remRunDir="xxx/xxx" 
# The directory machine, i.e. Main, from where you run this script
runDir=" xxx/xxx " 

# The IP address for the Storage Nodes
comp1="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" 
comp2="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
comp3="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
comp4="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

# The IP address for the NFS
casr2="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
# Local IP for Roach-2
roach="192.168.100.xxx"

7. Also in the same file, modify the following lines according to the bof file name.

ssh $casr2 "cd boffiles &&  python fullethdev.py -r $roach -b xxx.bof"

8. Launch main.sh to start the data acquisition process.

9. After the execution of main.sh, portion of data will be availabe at $runDir where the filename is plot1.

The following steps outline the process to combine and multiplex the data from the storage nodes.

1. Go to sw/main/post_unify, execute make to compile the program 8bitLineToBig and tsharkTo8bitLine.

2. Open postDataAnalysis.sh and change the following lines according to your system settings.

DirName="xxx"

# This is the remote directory on 4 machines
remRunDir="xxx/xxx"
# The folder machine, i.e. Main,  from where you run this script  
runDir="xxx/xxx" 

remRunDir=$remRunDir$DirName
runDir=$runDir$DirName

comp1="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" 
comp2="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
comp3="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
comp4="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

3. Launch postDataAnalysis.sh to obtain the whole timing diagram for the data, note this can take 10-15 mins.