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II. simple-setups

Table of Contents
10. A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Setting up the Electronics
10.3. The Configuration Files
10.3.1. The event stack
10.3.2. The scaler stack
10.4. Running VMUSBReadout
10.5. Understanding the Output
10.5.1. Event data
10.5.2. Scaler data
10.6. Developing a Tailored SpecTcl
10.6.1. What you will need to get started
10.6.2. Writing our Event Processor
10.6.3. Setting up the Event Processing Pipeline
10.6.4. Building SpecTcl
10.7. The VMUSBSpecTcl Alternative
10.8. Using SpecTcl
10.9. Conclusion
11. Simple V775 readout
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Setting up the Electronics.
11.3. Creating the Readout program
11.3.1. Obtaining the Readout Skeleton
11.3.2. Writing the Event segment
11.3.3. Writing the trigger
11.3.4. Hooking everything together.
11.3.5. Building and testing your Readout
11.4. Creating the tailored SpecTcl
11.4.1. Decoding raw TDC data
11.4.2. Producing parameters computed from the raw data
11.5. Running the system.
11.5.1. Readout GUI
11.5.2. Creating a directory in which to record events
11.5.3. Running and configuring the ReadoutGUI
11.6. Taking the example further.
11.7. The full readout program.
11.8. The full SpecTcl program.
12. Using NSCLDAQ with a CAEN V785 Peak-Sensing ADC and CAEN V262 IO Register
12.1. PREFACE
12.2. The electronics
12.2.1. A minimal electronics setup
12.3. Setting up the software
12.3.1. Modifying the Readout Skeleton
12.3.2. Integrating your event segment with Readout
12.3.3. Compiling the Readout program
12.4. The dumper program
12.4.1. A very brief introduction to ring buffers
12.4.2. Starting up the dumper program
12.5. Running the Readout Program
12.6. Interpreting the dumper output
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Examples (Beginning 11.2-009). A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial