lucabaldini / xpedaq

Data acquisition software for the X-ray polarimetry explorers
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Allow to set the large window padding mode on the ASIC #139

Open lucabaldini opened 7 years ago

lucabaldini commented 7 years ago

We've always used the 10-pixel padding when reading out the ASIC, but in principle we can set a bit in the configuration register to set the padding to 20.

lucabaldini commented 7 years ago

I've made most of the necessary modifications from the DAQ standpoint, namely:

The first attempt at using this functionality ended up in flame---the bit does something, but it's clear that we're not reading out the events as we should. Some basic phenomenology:

We need to look at this in details. We currently don't know if it's a problem with the DAQ, the firmware or the ASIC.