Enter your LOFAR2.0 Hardware Configuration

The software will need to be told various aspects of your station configuration, for example, the hostnames of the station hardware to control. The following settings are installation specific, and are stored as properties in the TangoDB.

Stock configurations are provided for several stations, as well as using simulators to simulate the station’s interface (which is the default after bootstrapping a station). These are provided in the CDB/stations/ directory, and can be loaded using for example:

sbin/dsconfig.sh --update CDB/stations/LTS_ConfigDb.json

The following sections describe the settings that are station dependent, and thus must or can be set.

Mandatory settings

Without these settings, you will not obtain the associated functionality:

RECV.OPC_Server_Name:

Hostname of RECVTR.

type:

string

UNB2.OPC_Server_Name:

Hostname of UNB2TR.

type:

string

SDPFirmware.OPC_Server_Name:

Hostname of SDPTR.

type:

string

SDP.OPC_Server_Name:

Hostname of SDPTR.

type:

string

SST.OPC_Server_Name:

Hostname of SDPTR.

type:

string

SST.FPGA_sst_offload_hdr_eth_destination_mac_RW_default:

MAC address of the network interface on the host running this software stack, on which the SSTs are to be received. This network interface must be capable of receiving Jumbo (MTU=9000) frames.

type:

string[N_fpgas]

SST.FPGA_sst_offload_hdr_ip_destination_address_RW_default:

IP address of the network interface on the host running this software stack, on which the SSTs are to be received.

type:

string[N_fpgas]

XST.OPC_Server_Name:

Hostname of SDPTR.

type:

string

XST.FPGA_xst_offload_hdr_eth_destination_mac_RW_default:

MAC address of the network interface on the host running this software stack, on which the XSTs are to be received. This network interface must be capable of receiving Jumbo (MTU=9000) frames.

type:

string[N_fpgas]

XST.FPGA_xst_offload_hdr_ip_destination_address_RW_default:

IP address of the network interface on the host running this software stack, on which the XSTs are to be received.

type:

string[N_fpgas]

Optional settings

These settings make life nicer, but are not strictly necessary to get your software up and running:

RECV.Ant_mask_RW_default:

Which antennas are installed.

type:

bool[N_RCUs][N_antennas_per_RCU]

SDP.RCU_mask_RW_default:

Which RCUs are installed.

type:

bool[N_RCUs]

UNB2.UNB2_mask_RW_default:

Which Uniboard2s are installed in SDP.

type:

bool[N_unb]

SDP.TR_fpga_mask_RW_default:

Which FPGAs are installed in SDP.

type:

bool[N_fpgas]

SDP.FPGA_sdp_info_station_id_RW_default:

Numeric identifier for this station.

type:

uint32[N_fpgas]