A scaler dump can be produced from the control program with the command

control>scaler [buffer] [dest]

where [buffer] should be substituted with 'curr' for the last read scaler buffer or 'accum' for the accumulated scaler buffer (see section 8.4.1 of acqu manual) and [dest] should be substituted with 'tt' to print the results to the screen or 'file' to print the results to a file.

To produce formatted output the control program looks for the existence of a file

/dmp/scaler_format.dat

This file puts comment lines with the scaler output  and allows arithmetic operations between them.  The /dmp/scaler_format.dat file contains examples.The format for the file is specified below.
 
 
 

*               Input lines are either
*               Comment  '*' should be 1st character of line
*               Format   'f' should be 1st character of line (printf format spec)
*               Constant 'c' should be 1st character of line, followed by
*                the value of the constant
*
*               Scaler spec.....up to 16 scalers specified per line
*               for each scaler: 's' index [connect] [index']
*
*              s136             scaler 136
*              s136+137         sum scalers 136 and 137
*              s136-137         diff scalers 136 and 137
*              s136/137         quotient scalers 136 and 137
*              s136*137         product scalers 136 137
*              s136/            quotient scaler 136 and constant
*              s136/137/        136 div by 137 div by constant
*
*       Thus a trailing operator specifies a constant operation
*       +,-,* operations also possible with constants
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Notes.

1)  To remove the formatted scalers option just rename the scaler_format.dat file.

2) If this file does not exist then the dump prints out the scalers in the order they appear in the fastbus crate. This order can be obtained from the fastbus setup file (at present fastbus.PipTofTag).