Existing Software: Old and New

Data Acquisition

• Many test beam runs for our demonstrator programme
• DAQ system evolved for fast data collection and simple online monitoring
• Homegrown C using many C library packages
• Neither very user or programmer friendly

Diagnostics

• (Mostly) single board tests
• Tcl/Tk GUI to access all registers and memories
• C++ classes to access the hardware
• C++ VHDL-like model of the hardware
• Prepackaged tests of whole boards

Heidelberg Test Software

• Developed for PreProcessor test system
• Fully OO, GUI uses Qt package
• Very flexible, driven by configuration files
• Provides low level hardware access with some functions suitable for high speed tests
• Network VME access
• Still missing some desirable features