Labview readout setup

LabVIEW programs for detector-lab instruments

Several subVIs has been made to ease the use of instruments avaliable in the lab. Larger VIs then use these subVIs to set up a complete test-system that can control, monitor and capture data from experiments.

SubVIs

The following subVIs has been made for the CAEN ADC. In addition the VIs provided by CAEN for the PCI-link bridge is needed to use these.

CAEN ADC

After the CAENVME_INIT subVI has been started (parameters "1,0,0"), a handle to the PCI-bridge is given. This handle is used by all subsequent VIs to communicate with the ADC. For further information refer to the technical documents for the ADC.

• 'ADC_Reset' Resets the adc, stops data acqusition.
• 'ADC_setMode' Set bitdepth, enable interrupt and auto-start acqusition after readout.
• 'ADC_setTriggerMode' Sets internal/external/random trigger signal and edge.
• 'ADC_setPostTrig' Sets the window position in relation to the trigger (0-127, 64 equals trigger in centre).
• 'ADC_setTriggers' Enables the triggers, and sets the threshold voltage [-1, 1]V.
• 'ADC_StartAcqusition' Starts capturing data, needs only to be run once if auto restart AC is enabled in ADC_setMode.
• 'ADC_waitForInterrupt' Use this to pause loop until data is captured. Needs CAENVME_IRQEnable and interrupt enabled in ADC_setMode.
• 'ADC_readRAM
• 'Global_Settings' Global constants like ADC address and other shared variables are stored here.