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II. simple-setups

Table of Contents
12. A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Setting up the Electronics
12.3. The Configuration Files
12.3.1. The event stack
12.3.2. The scaler stack
12.4. Running VMUSBReadout
12.5. Understanding the Output
12.5.1. Event data
12.5.2. Scaler data
12.6. Developing a Tailored SpecTcl
12.6.1. What you will need to get started
12.6.2. Writing our Event Processor
12.6.3. Setting up the Event Processing Pipeline
12.6.4. Building SpecTcl
12.7. The VMUSBSpecTcl Alternative
12.8. Using SpecTcl
12.9. Conclusion
13. Simple V775 readout
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Setting up the Electronics.
13.3. Creating the Readout program
13.3.1. Obtaining the Readout Skeleton
13.3.2. Writing the Event segment
13.3.3. Writing the trigger
13.3.4. Hooking everything together.
13.3.5. Building and testing your Readout
13.4. Creating the tailored SpecTcl
13.4.1. Decoding raw TDC data
13.4.2. Producing parameters computed from the raw data
13.5. Running the system.
13.5.1. Readout GUI
13.5.2. Creating a directory in which to record events
13.5.3. Running and configuring the ReadoutGUI
13.6. Taking the example further.
13.7. The full readout program.
13.8. The full SpecTcl program.
14. Using NSCLDAQ with a CAEN V785 Peak-Sensing ADC and CAEN V262 IO Register
14.1. PREFACE
14.2. The electronics
14.2.1. A minimal electronics setup
14.3. Setting up the software
14.3.1. Modifying the Readout Skeleton
14.3.2. Integrating your event segment with Readout
14.3.3. Compiling the Readout program
14.4. The dumper program
14.4.1. A very brief introduction to ring buffers
14.4.2. Starting up the dumper program
14.5. Running the Readout Program
14.6. Interpreting the dumper output
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Examples (Beginning 11.2-009). A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial