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II. simple-setups

Table of Contents
13. A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Setting up the Electronics
13.3. The Configuration Files
13.3.1. The event stack
13.3.2. The scaler stack
13.4. Running VMUSBReadout
13.5. Understanding the Output
13.5.1. Event data
13.5.2. Scaler data
13.6. Developing a Tailored SpecTcl
13.6.1. What you will need to get started
13.6.2. Writing our Event Processor
13.6.3. Setting up the Event Processing Pipeline
13.6.4. Building SpecTcl
13.7. The VMUSBSpecTcl Alternative
13.8. Using SpecTcl
13.9. Conclusion
14. Simple V775 readout
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Setting up the Electronics.
14.3. Creating the Readout program
14.3.1. Obtaining the Readout Skeleton
14.3.2. Writing the Event segment
14.3.3. Writing the trigger
14.3.4. Hooking everything together.
14.3.5. Building and testing your Readout
14.4. Creating the tailored SpecTcl
14.4.1. Decoding raw TDC data
14.4.2. Producing parameters computed from the raw data
14.5. Running the system.
14.5.1. Readout GUI
14.5.2. Creating a directory in which to record events
14.5.3. Running and configuring the ReadoutGUI
14.6. Taking the example further.
14.7. The full readout program.
14.8. The full SpecTcl program.
15. Using NSCLDAQ with a CAEN V785 Peak-Sensing ADC and CAEN V262 IO Register
15.1. PREFACE
15.2. The electronics
15.2.1. A minimal electronics setup
15.3. Setting up the software
15.3.1. Modifying the Readout Skeleton
15.3.2. Integrating your event segment with Readout
15.3.3. Compiling the Readout program
15.4. The dumper program
15.4.1. A very brief introduction to ring buffers
15.4.2. Starting up the dumper program
15.5. Running the Readout Program
15.6. Interpreting the dumper output
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Examples (Beginning 11.2-009). A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial