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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Richard,<br>
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You may also want to check your software and get a raw data dump
to confirm.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Fernando<br>
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On 2/13/2014 10:22 AM, Fernando J Barbosa wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Richard,<br>
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The fADC250 has a linearity of ~1% full scale and also a
ch-to-ch gain variation of 1%. We measured these before and
during production with pulses and levels. There is no processing
at all in raw data mode. Your signals are so close in amplitude
and so far away from saturation that I doubt there is any
non-linearity effects, other the edge speed and sampling as I
mentioned earlier. You can easily check this with a ramp signal
or a precision variable attenuator.<br>
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I would check with another scope channel and another ADC channel
to be sure there are no inconsistencies.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Fernando<br>
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On 2/13/2014 1:01 AM, Richard Jones wrote:<br>
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<div>We cannot use the scope for these tests because we can
only see a few channels at a time. We would very much like
to understand the DAQ so we can move on and start fiber QA
studies. The decay time of these signals is so slow that
the rise time will not affect the max pulse height by more
than about 10%. Running the signals shown on the scope
through a 125MHz low-pass filter reduces the pulse height
somewhat, but does not affect the ratios. There are
variations based on the exact delay through each channel and
the FADC clock, but these effects are +/- 10% because of the
slow decay time. As you state, we are comparing ratios of
40% on the scope and 15% on the ADC. </div>
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<div>We do not show the pictures on the wiki, but if we swap
the inputs on the FADC, the results do not change by more
than a couple percent. This shows that it cannot be gain
variations between the different channels on the FADC, but
must be some kind of signal processing that is doing very
different things to the peak heights depending on what
preamp output generated them. Is there possibly some
nonlinear processing of the raw FADC values that is
happening in the module before we see them? As Alex points
out, the pulse shapes of channels 1 and 3 are virtually
identical, but the ratio of their amplitudes disagrees: 6%
on the FADC vs 20% on the scope.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:16 AM,
Fernando J. Barbosa <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:barbosa@jlab.org">barbosa@jlab.org</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote">Hi Richard,<br>
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From the pictures, I get for each set the following peak
amplitudes:<br>
1) 64mV, 278 channels=4.3 ch/mV<br>
2) 46mV, 248 ch=5.4 ch/mV<br>
3) 76 mV, 295 ch=3.9 ch/mV<br>
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Clearly not linear where a 40% change on the scope
corresponds to 16% on the ADC. This is because we are
looking at peak values and the pulse rise time is less
than 4ns (ADC sampling). If you are triggering the ADC
from the laser pulser, try adding cables in 1ns increments
to see how the ADC amplitude changes. The pulse risetime
is just too fast for the ADC to sample properly (must be
> 4ns). Because the pulse duration is much longer than
the pulse risetime, charge should be OK as it is to be
used in the experiment. The scope is the better tool for
your tests of the fibers unless you put a low pass filter
to increase the pulse risetime.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Fernando<br>
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To: Richard Jones <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Cc: Hall D beam working group <<a
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Sent: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:02:13 -0500 (EST)<br>
Subject: Re: [Halld-tagger] first results on fiber
light yields<br>
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Hello Richard,<br>
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Actually fadc spectra for 1) and 3) agree reasonably
well<br>
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Why 2) is about 20% wider (was it a different readout
channel)?<br>
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(there could be some sampling effects due to the
different pulse<br>
shape around the peak. I would also compare amps
without the<br>
splitter).<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Alex<br>
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Richard Jones wrote:<br>
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> Dear colleagues,<br>
><br>
> We are working to obtain light yields for the
first article fiber bundle<br>
> that was produced for the tagger microscope some
time back. We have run<br>
> into a problem trying to interpret what we see
coming from the FADC250<br>
> module that is installed in the data acquisition
crate we are using for<br>
> fiber QA tests. Please see the plots on the wiki
page linked below that<br>
> illustrate the problem we are seeing.<br>
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> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Tagger_Microscope#Light_yield_tests">https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Tagger_Microscope#Light_yield_tests</a><br>
><br>
> When we look at the signals on the scope, we see
one set of amplitude<br>
> ratios that clearly reveal the differences in
light yield resulting from<br>
> different lengths of the fibers that are covered
in reflective paint. The<br>
> results from the FADC are much less
distinguished, and disagree in the<br>
> ratios of pulse heights. Comments or suggestions
as to what we are doing<br>
> wrong would be appreciated.<br>
><br>
> -Richard Jones<br>
><br>
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