simonsobs / simonsobs/sodetlib
Make `frac_pp` more persistent
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Since Dec 5, 2025.
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Description
Occasionally setup_tracking_params will fail to converge for some bands (see plot below). The cause is often that the value of frac_pp it found is off, and the solution is to inspect the frac_pp for good bands and manually set it to their mean for the bad ones. Although the underlying pysmurf algorithm could be made more reliable, this is a parameter that changes very little and having it be set dynamically is unnecessary.
Max in Slack:
Ya this was brought up by Suzanne, basically it doesn't change unless something goes wrong (like you develop a short). She was requesting we split the dev_cfgs and don't allow such long lived parameters to be overwritten unless done so by hand in a git controlled way or something
I think this configuration is already possible by setting fraction_full_scale in the pysmurf config, which is tracked in the simonsobs/ocs-deployment-configs. Then we would need to make the sodetlib optionally not update that parameter (and not track it in the device config). We'd need to think a bit about operationally how this would get set.
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