FrontEndSoftwareDocuments

Software Bugs:

on ALMA JIRA

Measurement Procedures

NAME PROCEDURE/MANUAL NOTES
FRONT END CONTROL, SIGNAL SOURCE, LO REFERENCE, FINE LO SWEEP FEND-40.09.03.00-053-B-MAN  
IF PROCESSOR FEND-40.09.03.00-061-B-MAN  
LO LOCK TEST FEND-40.00.00.00-0732-B-INS FEND-40.09.03.00-278-A-MAN  
CARTRIDGE BIAS OPTIMIZATION FEND-40.02.00.00-0060-B-MAN Band 3 & 4, manual methods  
NOISE TEMPERATURE FEND-40.09.03.00-0427-B-PRO  
FETMS AUTOMATED TEST: WORKMANSHIP, LOCKING, HEALTH CHECKS, STABILITY FEND-40.09.03.00-0452-A-PRO  
IF SPECTRUM, POWER VARIATION, TOTAL & IN-BAND POWER FEND-40.09.03.00-0434-C-PRO  
BEAM SCANNER PLANARITY ALIGNMENT FEND-40.09.03.00-0429-P-PRO  
BEAM PATTERNS, EFFICIENCIES FEND-40.09.03.00-0456-M-PRO FEND-40.09.03.00-0014-C-MAN Block diagram: FEND-40.09.03.00-087-R-DWG
CROSS-TALK, RFI, SIDEBAND CONVENTION FEND-40.09.03.00-0433-A-PRO  
POLARIZATION ALIGNMENT FEND-40.09.00.00-012-A-REP  

Downloads

NAME DOWNLOAD VERSION DOC/NOTES
FRONT END CONTROL     See historyAndTodos.txt for revision history.
FRONTENDAMB.DLL Zip download 0.0.4 2024-05-10 32-bit debug version. 3rdparty libs for building it
NI RUNTIME AND DRIVERS

LabVIEW Runtime Engine

NI-CAN Driver

NI-DAQ Driver

2017

18.5

18.6

These are required for the EXE version above. They are included in the Installer.
TESTCARTRIDGE M&C TestCartridgeM&C

1.4.14 14-Nov-2021

1.5.1 9-Jun-2023

1.4.x Requires LabVIEW 2017 runtime engine. FEND-40.04.03.01-001-A-MAN FEND-40.04.03.01-002-A-DSN

1.5.x Requires LabVIEW 2023 SP1 runtime engine

MINIMON EDM Link 2.2.3 AMBSI1 Programming Software
ALMA PSU CONTROL EXE, Installer 08-Oct-2010 Installer includes LV runtime 8.6 & NI-CAN 2.6
ALMA COMPRESSOR CONTROL EXE, Installer, LabVIEW Source 31-May-2012 Installer includes LV runtime 8.6.1 & NI-CAN 2.6.1
FEMC FIRMWARE ARCOM_EXE EDM_Folder 2.8.7 16-May-2018 Released version
FEMC INI FILES ZIP archive 2.8.5 23-Jan-2017 Default FEMC module INI files. The PA_LIMITS versions below replace some of these.
FEMC PA_LIMITS ZIP archive 2.6.11 BETA 20-Oct-2016 WCAx.INI files for bands 7, 8, 9. Compatible only with FEMC firmware 2.8.5 or later

Documents

NAME DOC STATUS
FRONT END CONTROL PROCEDURES & ALGORITHMS FEND-40.00.00.00-089-B-MAN RELEASED 2012-16-26
FE-COMPUTING ICD ALMA-40.00.00.00-75.35.25.00-D-ICD RELEASED
FE COMPRESSOR-COMPUTING ICD ALMA-40.04.05.00-70.35.25.00-B-ICD RELEASED
FE PSU-COMPUTING ICD ALMA-40.04.01.00-70.35.25.00-B-ICD DRAFT
FRONT END OPERATION MANUAL FEND-40.00.00.00-173-A-MAN DRAFT
CARTRIDGE DATA DELIVERY

FEND-40.09.03.00-032-D-DSN

supplemented by FEND-40.09.03.00-3017-A-CRE

RELEASED 2023-10-31

RELEASED 2024-09-03

WCA DATA DELIVERY

FEND-40.09.03.00-032-A-DSN

superseded by FECRE-87

SUPERSEDED 03-Nov-2020

DRAFT 19-Oct-2020

FETMS BLOCK DIAGRAM FEND-40.09.03.00-087-R-DWG 06 February 2020
LORTM FREQUENCY CALIBRATION, REF2 RF POWER TUNING FEND-40.09.03.00-0438-B-PRO 2020-03-04
Topic revision: r173 - 2025-08-06, MorganMcLeod
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