TileCal ROD Motherboard Software Library: User's Manual

This note describes the software library and an associated standalone application program to handle the TileCal ROD VME motherboard. The library uses the CMT packages vme_rcc and rcc_error, from the ATLAS Online Data Flow to handle the standard crate controller, VP-110 from Concurrent Technologies, and the custom bit3_rcc CMT package to handle an alternative crate controller, the BIT-3 from SBSTM Technologies. The ROD library defines several C++ classes which can be used in either standalone applications to control and debug the RODs or with the TDAQ online software integration of the back-end hardware for the TileCal detector. The library also includes special auxiliary classes to handle additional back-end boards related to the ROD operation like the TBM or the ROD injectors.