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Firmware for the CMS uGMT.
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Allow channels to be deactivated individually during running #293

Closed dinyar closed 8 years ago

dinyar commented 9 years ago

Currently we have to options to disable inputs:

  1. Fill certain input channels with zero
  2. Deactivate a complete track finder (EMTF+, EMTF-, OMTF+, OMTF-, BMTF) before the algo block

The advantage of the first approach is that it works on the channel level, while the second approach only works on a larger granularity. However with the second approach (this can be seen as both advantage and disadvantage) muons are still registered in the muon counters and will be present in the read out record. This would maybe allow to diagnose problems more easily but could confuse shifters if not handled properly in the monitoring system.

It might be in any case useful to increase the granularity of the second approach.

dinyar commented 8 years ago

As described above there are significant downsides to this approach. Additionally the channels can be removed completely already now as referred to in option 1.