Hardware Configuration

The Online software configuration databases provide a ``core'' schema describing the basic infrastructure of crates and modules, etc. It will (probably) be useful for us to extend this be defining our own Crate and Module subclasses.

Examples of additional attributes we might need to add to the default classes include:

• links to calibration data for each object: ie connection between the hardware schema and the calibration data schema.
• geographical addressing of our crates (eg in the PreProcessor and ROD crates where this is not completely determined from the backplane).
• mapping from the electronics to the detectors and/or (phi,eta) coordinates.
• concept of FPGA programs: ie add firmware to the software schema.
• default values of run parameters?

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