VTHR: Discriminator Thresholds


                              Titles:  VTHR
                              =============
 
NB  The CRON/VRLY/VTHR banks are now obsolete.  
    They have been replaced by the DQCH/DQCR banks

Contact:  Mark Howe (University of Washington)
 
 
Revision History:-
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3.02    M. Howe         First version.


 
Titles Files
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ccc_info.dat
 
 
Verification
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Description
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Contains 8-bit discriminator thresholds of each channel.  The data is close
packed, 4 thresholds per word.

Define  channel grouping lcn4 = (512*i_crate + 32*i_card  + i_channel) / 4

IMPORTANT:  In the table below, the ordering is Crate/Card/Channel NOT
Card/Crate/Channel so as to avoid wasting space.
 

Data Words
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        Fixed length Database Header.  See titles_dbhdr.html

    Data types: B(bit), I, F, D(double), H(hollerith 4 char)

              KVTHR_
 
    1     I                Reserved for possible future use. =0 for now.
    2     I   NUM_CRATE    Number of crates (=19 for DAQ data))
3..10     I                Spare words

 11       B   CHAN_TBL     Packed thresholds for lcn4 = 0:-
                           Bits 0..7  Threshold for channel 0
                                8..15                       1
                               16..23                       2
                               24..31                       3
 11
 +lcn4    B                 Packed thresholds for channel grouping lcn4



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