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II. simple-setups

Table of Contents
14. A Simple VMUSBReadout Experiment Tutorial
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Setting up the Electronics
14.3. The Configuration Files
14.3.1. The event stack
14.3.2. The scaler stack
14.4. Running VMUSBReadout
14.5. Understanding the Output
14.5.1. Event data
14.5.2. Scaler data
14.6. Developing a Tailored SpecTcl
14.6.1. What you will need to get started
14.6.2. Writing our Event Processor
14.6.3. Setting up the Event Processing Pipeline
14.6.4. Building SpecTcl
14.7. The VMUSBSpecTcl Alternative
14.8. Using SpecTcl
14.9. Conclusion
15. Simple V775 readout
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Setting up the Electronics.
15.3. Creating the Readout program
15.3.1. Obtaining the Readout Skeleton
15.3.2. Writing the Event segment
15.3.3. Writing the trigger
15.3.4. Hooking everything together.
15.3.5. Building and testing your Readout
15.4. Creating the tailored SpecTcl
15.4.1. Decoding raw TDC data
15.4.2. Producing parameters computed from the raw data
15.5. Running the system.
15.5.1. Readout GUI
15.5.2. Creating a directory in which to record events
15.5.3. Running and configuring the ReadoutGUI
15.6. Taking the example further.
15.7. The full readout program.
15.8. The full SpecTcl program.
16. Using NSCLDAQ with a CAEN V785 Peak-Sensing ADC and CAEN V262 IO Register
16.1. PREFACE
16.2. The electronics
16.2.1. A minimal electronics setup
16.3. Setting up the software
16.3.1. Modifying the Readout Skeleton
16.3.2. Integrating your event segment with Readout
16.3.3. Compiling the Readout program
16.4. The dumper program
16.4.1. A very brief introduction to ring buffers
16.4.2. Starting up the dumper program
16.5. Running the Readout Program
16.6. Interpreting the dumper output
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