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3.3 SMA Synchronisation Connectors .............................................................................................................. 14
3.4 Discovering a Unit’s Serial Number and Installed Product Options ........................................................... 15
3.4.1 The Unit Serial Number and its relation to the Ethernet MAC address ............................................ 15
3.4.2 Installed Product Options .................................................................................................................. 15
3.5. The RG408 Hardware Platform ....................................................................................................................... 15
3.4.3 Handling and Transportation ............................................................................................................. 16
3.4.4 RG Platform Firmware ....................................................................................................................... 16
4 Block Diagram ................................................................................................................................................... 17
5 User Interface ................................................................................................................................................... 17
5.1 Initial (Power-up) display ............................................................................................................................ 17
5.2 Normal (Status) display .............................................................................................................................. 18
6 Front Panel Interaction ..................................................................................................................................... 20
6.1 IP address .................................................................................................................................................... 22
6.2 Time Synchronisation ................................................................................................................................. 23
6.3 Health Display ............................................................................................................................................. 23
7 DSI Option Details ............................................................................................................................................. 25
8 Option ER – Event/Error Reporting ................................................................................................................... 25
9 Option TT – Time Tags ...................................................................................................................................... 25
10 Option EI – Event/Error Injection ...................................................................................................................... 26
11 Option EW – Event/Error Waveforms ............................................................................................................. 27
11.1.1 SpWIO Event Waveform Defaults .................................................................................................... 30
11.1.2 SpWIO Event Waveform Examples ................................................................................................... 30
12 Option SO – Synchronised Outputs .................................................................................................................. 31
13 Option CO – Controlled Outputs ....................................................................................................................... 33
14 Option OD and OE – Output Disable and Output Enable ................................................................................. 34
15 Unit – to – unit Time-Tag Synchronisation ....................................................................................................... 35
15.1 Setting the Synchronisation Source ............................................................................................................ 36
16 Software ............................................................................................................................................................ 38
16.1 Files Supplied with the DSI ......................................................................................................................... 38
16.2 Controlling the DSI using the SpWIO Program ......................................................................................... 38
16.3 The RMAP plugin for the SpWIO Program ............................................................................................... 39
16.4 C-language Application Programming Interface ........................................................................................ 39