slsDetectorPackage/RELEASE.md

SLS Detector Package {{RELEASE_TYPE}} Release {{VERSION}} released on {{DATE}}

This document describes the differences between v{{VERSION}} and v{{PREVIOUS_VERSION}}

CONTENTS
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1           New, Changed or Resolved Features
    1.1     Compilation
    1.2     Callback
    1.3     Python
    1.4     Client
    1.5     Detector Server
    1.6     Simulator
    1.7     Receiver
    1.8     Gui
2           On-board Detector Server Compatibility
3           Firmware Requirements
4           Kernel Requirements
5           Download, Documentation & Support

1 New, Changed or Resolved Features

Building shared libraries is disabled by default. If you need to link against any of the libSls*.so libraries, you can enable this by passing -DSLS_BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARIES=ON to CMake.

Added SLS_USE_SYSTEM_ZMQ option (default OFF) to use the libzmq of the host instead of the one included in our repo.

Experimental support for building the detector client (including python bindings) on macOS

rx_dbitlist keeps the order of the passed bit list

Detector.pattern (python) accepts also a pattern object, not only a pattern file

added patternstart to python (ctb, xilinx_ctb , mythen3), only the detector class api was exposed (startPattern())

removed unused function readDataFile/writeDataFile from file_utils.h

2 On-board Detector Server Compatibility

Eiger       10.0.0
Jungfrau    10.0.0
Mythen3     10.0.0
Gotthard2   10.0.0
Moench      10.0.0


On-board Detector Server Upgrade
--------------------------------

From v6.1.0 (without tftp):
    update only on-board detector server
        Using command 'updatedetectorserver'


    udpate both on-board detector server and firmware simultaneously
        Using command 'update'

Instructions available at
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/serverupgrade.html

3 Firmware Requirements

Eiger       02.10.2023 (v32)                    (updated in 7.0.3)

Jungfrau    09.02.2025 (v1.6, HW v1.0)          (updated in 9.1.0)
            08.02.2025 (v2.6, HW v2.0)          (updated in 9.1.0)

Mythen3     13.11.2024 (v2.0)                   (updated in 9.0.0)

Gotthard2   03.10.2024 (v1.0)                   (updated in 9.0.0)

Moench      26.10.2023 (v2.0)                   (updated in 8.0.2)


Detector Upgrade
----------------

The following can be upgraded remotely:

Eiger      via bit files
Jungfrau   via command <.pof>
Mythen3    via command <.rbf>
Gotthard2  via command <.rbf>
Moench     via command <.pof>

Except Eiger, 
    upgrade 
        Using command 'programfpga' or

    udpate both on-board detector server and firmware simultaneously
        Using command 'update'


Instructions available at
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/firmware.html

4 Kernel Requirements

Blackfin 
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Latest version: Fri Oct 29 00:00:00 2021

Older ones will work, but might have issues with programming firmware via
the package.


Nios
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Compatible version: Mon May 10 18:00:21 CEST 2021


Kernel Upgrade
---------------
Eiger   via bit files
Others  via command

Commands: udpatekernel, kernelversion
Instructions available at
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/commandline.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/detector.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/pydetector.html

5 Download, Documentation & Support

Download
--------

The Source Code:
     https://github.com/slsdetectorgroup/slsDetectorPackage
        
Documentation
-------------

Installation:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/installation.html

Quick Start Guide:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io//{{VERSION}}/quick_start_guide.html

Firmware Upgrade:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/firmware.html

Detector Server upgrade:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/serverupgrade.html

Detector Simulators:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/virtualserver.html

Consuming slsDetectorPackage:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/consuming.html
    
Software Architecture
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/softwarearchitecture.html

Set up commands in config file
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/configcommands.html
    
Image Size and Output Characteristics
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/dataformat.html

API Examples:
    https://github.com/slsdetectorgroup/api-examples

Command Line Documentation:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/commandline.html

C++ API Documentation:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/detector.html
   
C++ API Example:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/examples.html#
    
Python API Documentation:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/pygettingstarted.html

Python API Example:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/pyexamples.html

Receivers (including custom receiver):
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/receivers.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/slsreceiver.html

Detector UDP Header:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/udpheader.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/udpdetspec.html

Output Data:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/dataformat.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/fileformat.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/slsreceiverheaderformat.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/masterfileattributes.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/binaryfileformat.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/hdf5fileformat.html

slsReceiver Zmq Format:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/slsreceiver.html#zmq-json-header-format

TroubleShooting:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/troubleshooting.html
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/{{VERSION}}/troubleshooting.html#receiver-pc-tuning-options
    
Further Documentation:
    https://www.psi.ch/en/detectors/documentation
    
Info on Releases:
    https://slsdetectorgroup.github.io/slsDetectorPackage/index.html


Support
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    dhanya.thattil@psi.ch
    erik.frojdh@psi.ch
    alice.mazzoleni@psi.ch