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Table of Contents
1 Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 9
2 Installation procedure................................................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Hard- and Software Requirements...................................................................................................... 10
2.2 Driver Installation................................................................................................................................. 11
2.3 Software Installation............................................................................................................................ 13
2.4 Hardware Installation........................................................................................................................... 13
2.5 Getting Started..................................................................................................................................... 14
2.5.1 Initial offset calibration................................................................................................................. 14
2.5.2 Basic Scope measurement..........................................................................................................16
2.5.3 Simple Pulse Height Analysis...................................................................................................... 19
2.5.4 Measuring a typical Pre-Amplifier Signal.....................................................................................22
2.5.5 Multiscaling measurement...........................................................................................................26
2.5.6 Basic Usage of the RealTimeClock Option..................................................................................28
2.6 Installing more than one MCA4A Module.............................................................................................29
3 Hardware Description.................................................................................................................................. 31
3.1 Overview.............................................................................................................................................. 31
3.2 Front Panel Connectors....................................................................................................................... 31
3.2.1 Analog ADC Inputs....................................................................................................................... 31
3.2.2 Changing the Input range............................................................................................................ 32
3.2.3 GATE / MCS Inputs...................................................................................................................... 33
3.2.4 FEATURE I/O Connector.............................................................................................................34
3.3 MCA section, Analog-to-Digital Converter............................................................................................35
3.3.1 Scope mode................................................................................................................................. 35
3.3.2 Pulse height analysis................................................................................................................... 36
3.3.3 Sampled voltage analysis............................................................................................................38
3.3.4 Single channel analyzer (SCA)....................................................................................................38
3.3.5 Real time, live time and system time counter...............................................................................38
3.3.6 List mode data acquisition........................................................................................................... 38
3.3.7 Event tagging, spectrum multiscaling..........................................................................................38
3.4 Multichannel scaler.............................................................................................................................. 39
3.4.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 39
3.4.2 Dwell time.................................................................................................................................... 39
3.4.3 Sweep counter............................................................................................................................. 39
3.4.4 Spectrum sequencing.................................................................................................................. 39
3.5 Octal 125 MHz Counter / Timer........................................................................................................... 40
3.6 Time Base / Reference Clock.............................................................................................................. 40
4 Software Description.................................................................................................................................... 41
4.1 Server functions................................................................................................................................... 41
4.1.1 Initialization files .......................................................................................................................... 41
4.1.2 Action menus .............................................................................................................................. 42
4.1.3 File menu..................................................................................................................................... 42
4.1.4 Settings Overview........................................................................................................................ 44
4.1.5 MCS Settings............................................................................................................................... 45
4.1.6 Presets......................................................................................................................................... 46
4.1.7 ADC Settings............................................................................................................................... 47
4.1.8 Pulse-width histogramming..........................................................................................................51
4.1.9 Scaler Setting.............................................................................................................................. 52
4.1.10 System Definition....................................................................................................................... 53
4.1.11 Calculated Spectra dialog..........................................................................................................54
4.1.12 Conditions.................................................................................................................................. 58
4.2 File formats.......................................................................................................................................... 60
4.3 Control Language................................................................................................................................ 62
4.4 Controlling the MCA4 Windows Server via DDE..................................................................................68
4.4.1 Open Conversation...................................................................................................................... 68
4.4.2 DDE Execute............................................................................................................................... 68
4.4.3 Close Conversation..................................................................................................................... 70
4.5 Controlling the MCA4 Windows Server via DLL...................................................................................72
5 MPANT Software......................................................................................................................................... 73
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