[Halld-tracking-hw] preamp/ADC range

Gerard Visser gvisser at indiana.edu
Wed Jun 16 10:53:03 EDT 2010


Hi Fernando, Lubomir,
	In the FDC logbook record 468, top plot, the cutoff at about 1100 is evident. 
Is this corresponding to the saturation level of preamp output? And it looks a 
little 'odd' in that the spectrum cuts off without an accumulation of 
'maximum-amplitude' events - do we understand why it looks like this?
	The ADC itself should saturate only upon reaching 16384. This has of course 
been tested with other (non-preamp) input from fuction generator. [Reminder to 
all that at least with interim readout firmware and software the 12-bit ADC is 
mapped to 14-bit values.]
	Sincerely,

		Gerard


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