NSCL DAQ Software Documentation
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II. simple-setups

Table of Contents
9. A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Setting up the Electronics
9.3. The Configuration Files
9.3.1. The event stack
9.3.2. The scaler stack
9.4. Running VMUSBReadout
9.5. Understanding the Output
9.5.1. Event data
9.5.2. Scaler data
9.6. Developing a Tailored SpecTcl
9.6.1. Acquiring the Skeleton
9.6.2. Writing our Event Processor
9.6.3. Setting up the Event Processing Pipeline
9.6.4. Building SpecTcl
9.7. The VMUSBSpecTcl Alternative
9.8. Using SpecTcl
9.9. Conclusion
10. Simple V775 readout
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Setting up the Electronics.
10.3. Creating the Readout program
10.3.1. Obtaining the Readout Skeleton
10.3.2. Writing the Event segment
10.3.3. Writing the trigger
10.3.4. Hooking everything together.
10.3.5. Building and testing your Readout
10.4. Creating the tailored SpecTcl
10.4.1. Decoding raw TDC data
10.4.2. Producing parameters computed from the raw data
10.5. Running the system.
10.5.1. Readout GUI
10.5.2. Creating a directory in which to record events
10.5.3. Running and configuring the ReadoutGUI
10.6. Taking the example further.
10.7. The full readout program.
10.8. The full SpecTcl program.
11. Using NSCLDAQ with a CAEN V785 Peak-Sensing ADC and CAEN V262 IO Register
11.1. PREFACE
11.2. The electronics
11.2.1. A minimal electronics setup
11.3. Setting up the software
11.3.1. Modifying the Readout Skeleton
11.3.2. Integrating your event segment with Readout
11.3.3. Compiling the Readout program
11.4. The dumper program
11.4.1. A very brief introduction to ring buffers
11.4.2. Starting up the dumper program
11.5. Running the Readout Program
11.6. Interpreting the dumper output
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