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Register GUI

CERN AMBER (NA66) experiment

A Qt-based desktop application for reading and writing hardware registers on FPGA-based devices using the μHAL (IPbus) protocol. Developed as a Bachelor's thesis for the CERN AMBER experiment — a fixed-target experiment at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron studying QCD, proton charge radius, and meson structure.

Features

• Device discovery — load device configurations from XML connection files
• Visual device map — interactive diagram with draggable device blocks
• Register tree view with hierarchical display and filtering
• Real-time reading — single read or continuous polling, configurable from 10 ms up to 2 minutes
• Register writing with hex/decimal conversion
• Both IPbus-direct and ControlHub (chtcp) gateway connections

Documentation

The repo includes class, component, sequence, use-case, activity, and state UML diagrams covering the read/write flow and continuous-polling threading model.