Introduction

This package contains offline bytestream conversion code for the Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger sub-detectors.

The code is based on the following documents/sources:

ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger-Read-out Driver, version 1.09h
Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger: Cable Mappings and Crate Layouts from Analogue Inputs to Processors, version 1.6
Steve Hillier's online decoder, mainly L1CaloBsDecoderTemplate.h as of November 2005.
Private communications from Steve Hillier.
ATLAS L1Calo Pre-processor compressed Slink data formats, D.P.C.Sankey, Version 1.1, October 17, 2006.
ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger: Jet/Energy Processor Module, Project Specification, version 1.0
ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger: Cluster Processor Module, Project Specification, version 2.03
ATLAS Calorimeter First Level Trigger: Common Merger Module, Project Specification, version 1.7.8

Implemented so far: PPM, CPM, JEM, CMM-CP, CMM-Jet, CMM-Energy DAQ; CPM RoI, JEM Jet RoI, CMM-Jet-Et RoI, CMM-Energy RoI.

Author: Peter Faulkner