Low.CBF Tango Devices for Monitoring and Control

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• SKA Low CBF
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• Developer’s Guide
  • Tests
• Health Monitoring

Low.CBF Tango Devices

• External-Facing Devices
  • LowCbfController
  • LowCbfSubarray
  • Attribute/Command list
• Internal Devices
  • LowCbfAllocator
  • Attribute/Command list
  • Related Tango devices

Subarray Resource Allocation

• Names used within Low.CBF
• Description of Low.CBF Structure
• Frequency Slice Processors
• Low.CBF Subarray Resources
  • Allocator
  • Allocation Process

Configuring Subarray Capabilities for Scan

• Low.CBF Subarray Capabilities
  • How Subarrays configure capabilities for Scan
  • Describing Station data input configuration for Low.CBF (stations)
  • Describing standard Visibility output configuration for Low.CBF (vis)
  • Describing Zoom Visibility output configuration for Low.CBF (coarse_zooms)
  • Describing Timing Beam output configuration for Low.CBF (timing_beams)
  • Describing Search Beam output configuration for Low.CBF (search_beams)
  • Low CBF FPGA Firmware
  • Subarray checks made on configure parameters
  • Subarray environment variables

Health Monitoring

• Low CBF Health Monitoring
  • Philosophy
  • Purpose
  • Health State Definitions
  • Alarms vs Health
  • Health Aggregation
  • Health of Low CBF Hardware Devices
  • Overrides for Testing
  • Attribute Subscription
  • Processor health

Alarms

• Low CBF Alarms
  • Purpose
  • Alarms vs Health
  • Scope
  • Alarm Implementation in Low CBF

Delay polynomial simulation for test & development

• Delay Polynomial Simulation
• Usage
• Setting beam and source directions

Realtime calibration emulator for test & development

• Overview
• Attributes
• Commands
  • configure_rcal
  • start_calibration
  • stop_calibration
• Data Format
• Example Workflow

Version History

• Version History
• 2.2.0
• 2.1.0
• 2.0.0
• 1.0.0

More information available on SKA Confluence - Low.CBF Tango Architecture