hgcroc-toa-simulator 0.2.0

Application that simulates the two-stage TDC implemented in the HGCROCv3 ASIC

ToA simulation for the HGCROCv3

To have a reference with witch to compare the measured Data with, as well as being able to generate data for software system tests and help people in understanding the behaviour of the Time to Digital converters (TDC) of the HGCROCv3, this simulation provides data generation and visualisation techniques.

Installation

The code in this repository constitutes a python package so with the current version of this repository it can be installed using

pip install .

optionally it can be installed in editable mode with

pip install --editable .

Editable mode allows changes made in the repository code to affect the installed package immediately.

Usage

The software is built to be a command line tool. After installation, the toa-simulator command will be available on the command line.

All commands and subcommands provide a help function that lists all available options and shows how the command is to be called.

Work in progress

The toa-simulator simulates a single TDC. If not provided with a configuration file, it regenerates the exact gate timings for every invocation according to the parameters provided.