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Tue May 26 11:10:27 2020 | 
xggg | Domino wave | Hi Stefan,
 
 
According to the datasheet DRS_rev09, 
the write signal is always 16 cells wide. | 
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Sun May 26 13:08:52 2013 | 
tmiron alon |   | Hallo,
 
I'm using DRS4 Evaluation Board Rev 
4.0 and I'm trying to  change the output | 
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Fri Jun  7 11:44:17 2013 | 
tmiron alon | thank you | 
 
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Mon Jun 10 14:09:13 2013 | 
tmiron alon | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jul  4 08:32:11 2013 | 
tmiron alon | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jul  4 09:07:24 2013 | 
tmiron alon | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jul  4 10:01:06 2013 | 
tmiron alon | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jul 16 10:02:28 2013 | 
tmiron alon | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sun Jul 28 09:52:25 2013 | 
tmiron alon | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Aug 12 15:08:17 2013 | 
tmiron alon | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sat Jan 15 09:13:42 2022 | 
student_riku | I want to know about the readout | Hello, everyone.
 
I'm a student in Japan.
 
Please forgive me if this is a very | 
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Wed Jan 26 06:44:11 2022 | 
student_riku | I want to know about the readout | Dear Stefan
 
 
Thanks a lot.
 
 
I solved it. | 
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Wed Feb 22 11:36:51 2012 | 
sonal | DRS4- analog pulse counting | Hello 
Sir,
 
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Wed Nov 30 17:48:39 2016 | 
samridha kunwar | DRS4 Initiation | I am having a general problem getting read 
back using the ROI mode.  In the transparent 
mode everything looks good. These are the | 
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Fri Dec  2 15:32:52 2016 | 
samridha kunwar | DRS4 Initiation | Thanks for replying Stefan.
 
 
I was more so just concerned with 
the steps in the firmware when I had asked. | 
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Wed Feb 10 02:57:55 2010 | 
pepe sanchez lopez | Hello | hello i am an student and i want to do 
my final project with drs4 board and i really 
can´t find how to open waveform file | 
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Wed Dec 23 15:38:14 2015 | 
mony orbach | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | Hi
 
 
the drs4 start to generate Dtap 
signal after reset and standard configuration. | 
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Thu Dec 24 10:51:31 2015 | 
mony orbach | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | my refclk is 1.25Mhz
 
 
what are the inputs and voltage 
you need to see? | 
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Sun Dec 27 15:06:59 2015 | 
mony orbach | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | Hi
 
 
We have some meesurs to show (attached)
 
 
 
	Dtap and Denable
 
	Dtap+Denable | 
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Sun Dec 27 15:41:32 2015 | 
mony orbach | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | Hi
 
 
We have some measures to show (attached)
 
 
 
	Dtap and Denable
 
	Dtap+Denable | 
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Mon Dec 28 11:21:54 2015 | 
mony orbach | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | Hi Stefan
 
 
Thanks for your input.
 
 
We are in the process of assemble | 
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Wed Dec 30 16:25:35 2015 | 
mony orbach | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | Hi
 
 
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Thu Jan 14 14:00:26 2016 | 
mony orbach | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | surrey i forgot to update..
 
 
after carefully examining our VHDL 
we found out that there are brief times that | 
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Tue Apr 13 10:45:18 2010 | 
lorenzo neri | evaluation board used like a counter | Hi all
 
 
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Tue Aug 27 16:14:49 2013 | 
lengchongyang |   |   Hello everyone!I'm a 
new user of DRS4 board,but it seems that | 
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Wed Aug 28 04:05:48 2013 | 
lengchongyang |   | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Dec 10 14:48:42 2013 | 
ismail okan atakisi | measurement range | I m trying to measure lifetime in our lab 
and I intend to take 
 
measurement with DRS4 at that point | 
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Thu Nov  1 20:08:33 2012 | 
hongwei yang | DRS4 firmware | Hi,
 
    We are using drs4 
board, but oscilloscope app will somehow | 
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Thu Nov  1 20:21:44 2012 | 
hongwei yang | DRS4 firmware | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Nov  1 20:25:53 2012 | 
hongwei yang | DRS4 firmware | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Nov  1 20:46:53 2012 | 
hongwei yang | DRS4 firmware | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Aug  7 18:41:37 2015 | 
dante | DRS4 | Hi
 
 
I have just installed DRS4, but 
when I try to view it from the USB it don't | 
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Tue Aug 27 08:33:22 2019 | 
chinmay basu | DRS4 | Is DRS4 suitable for use with Silicon surface 
barrier detectors? | 
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Wed Nov 22 08:31:03 2017 | 
chen wenjun  | using of the DRS Command Line Interface | Hello! I'm using DRS4 evaluation board 
V5 with the drs command line interface,but 
the mannal only explained the meaning of | 
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Wed Nov 22 08:58:33 2017 | 
chen wenjun  | using of the DRS Command Line Interface | OK!Thank you! One more question,when I 
use the Oscillocope ,I found that the actual 
speed is a constant value of 1.007G,how can | 
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Wed Nov 22 09:19:11 2017 | 
chen wenjun  | using of the DRS Command Line Interface | Thank you very much !! All my fault for 
I thought it too comlicated. Thank you sincerely!
 
 
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Thu Jan 25 05:24:05 2018 | 
chen wenjun | problem with the drscl(drs507) | Hi! Stefan:
 
 
  when I change a new computer(win7,64bit),I 
meet a problem that the drscl app cannot | 
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Thu Jan 25 06:10:52 2018 | 
chen wenjun | drscl doesn't find eval board but drsosc does (Windows 7) | Hi! Jim:
 
 
  It seems that I meet the 
same question with you ,and I am confused | 
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Thu Jan 25 08:07:32 2018 | 
chen wenjun | problem with the drscl(drs507) | I have tried about 4 computers,only one 
worked fine.I truly want to know how others 
get this fixed,can you get in touch with | 
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Wed Mar 14 09:13:39 2018 | 
chen wenjun | confusion about the description in drs.cpp | Hi,Stefan:
 
 
  recently,whtn I study the 
drs.cpp code ,I found that  the buffer[1] | 
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Sun May  6 08:13:37 2018 | 
chen wenjun | confusion about the description in drs.cpp | Hi Stefan:
 
 
  I'm still confused that 
althought the 8 bits buffer is enough,the | 
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Mon Aug 29 09:36:34 2016 | 
benjamin legeyt | increment write config register on the fly? | Hello,
 
 
I have a question about using the 
write config register to enable/disable sampling | 
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Mon Aug 29 12:18:49 2016 | 
benjamin legeyt | increment write config register on the fly? | If I may trouble you for a little more 
information, the critical point then is 
that there should not be any zeroes in the | 
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Tue Jul 23 22:31:08 2013 | 
alonzi | Evaluation Board Behavior | Working with the DRS evaluation board we 
noticed some funny behavior: See attatchment 
1. In about 1% of scope traces we see the | 
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Tue Jul 23 22:42:31 2013 | 
alonzi | Evaluation Board Behavior | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Dec 30 14:28:33 2009 | 
aliyilmaz | normal_mode_in_drs_exam.cpp |  Dear Mr. S. Ritt
 
       i am Ms. 
student , am working with your DRS4 board | 
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Mon Oct 31 09:15:02 2011 | 
Zhongwei Du | How to link PMT | I want to measure the signal from PMT . 
But it is a current signal, should i just 
put a series resistance, or use a amplifier | 
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Sat Feb  4 11:59:26 2012 | 
Zhongwei Du | what sort of detectors for physical experiment the DRS4 used? | Hello.
 
We are designing a waveform 
sampling board for Si strip array detector | 
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Tue Dec  4 09:24:22 2012 | 
Zhongwei Du | Question of drs4 using | When Denable and Dwrite is high , the voltage 
of PLLOUT is 0 V.  And  the Dtap 
is turn high with no delay when the Denable | 
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Tue Dec  4 09:50:11 2012 | 
Zhongwei Du | Question of drs4 using | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Aug 28 17:52:45 2012 | 
Zach Miller | DRS-4.0.0 DOScreen.cpp | Hi,
 
I found an old thread regarding a 
fix for DOScreen.cpp for DRS-3.1.0, that | 
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Wed Aug 29 16:42:42 2012 | 
Zach Miller | DRS-4.0.0 DOScreen.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Aug 29 16:57:49 2012 | 
Zach Miller | DRS-4.0.0 DOScreen.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Oct  4 20:50:36 2012 | 
Zach Miller | DRS5 | Hi,
 
Our group had previously heard that 
a "DRS-5.0" might be on the horizon | 
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Thu Oct  4 21:07:27 2012 | 
Zach Miller | DRS5 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jul 14 19:03:05 2014 | 
Yves Bianga | change cascading from 1024 to 2048 bins for each input channel | Hello,
 
 
 
I want to ask 
whether it is possible to modify a Evaluation | 
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Sun Aug 27 12:44:16 2017 | 
Yuvaraj Elangovan | DRS4 version Support | Hi i am using DRS4 Eval Board V2, How to 
acquire data to a bin file using it.   
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  219  
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Fri Feb 22 11:46:17 2013 | 
Yury Golod | DRS4 trigger, different polarity | 
 
 
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Wed Feb 15 18:08:13 2012 | 
Yuji Iwai | Evaluation Board v4 Trigger/Clock Connectors | Quick question - what type of connectors 
are used for the trigger and clock in/out 
on the v4 eval board? | 
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  523  
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Thu May 12 05:18:47 2016 | 
Yu | Problem For Software Download | Hi
 
 
 I can't download the 
software for windows on this website 'www.psi.ch/drs/software-download', | 
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Wed Sep 27 16:11:03 2017 | 
Yoni Sher | Event acquisition pace for irregular timing | Hi, 
 
 
I'm running a LIDAR application 
that requires that every outgoing pulse be | 
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Wed Dec 20 15:30:38 2017 | 
Yoni Sher | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | Hi, 
 
 
I'm trying to do the same thing 
(get 1 channel with 8192 bins), but I'm | 
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Wed Dec 20 16:30:45 2017 | 
Yoni Sher | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | Hi, 
 
 
The board is modified (and checks 
out with the DRSScope program). Could you | 
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Thu Jun 28 19:55:45 2018 | 
Woon-Seng Choong | Negative Bin Width | I am using a DRS4 Evaluation Board v5 and 
running the drsosc.exe version 5.06 on 
a Window 7 machine. I have performed the | 
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Mon Jul 16 19:39:35 2018 | 
Woon-Seng Choong | Effect of interpolation on timing | Using a test pulse split into two channels 
of the DRS4 Evaluation Board v5, I looked 
at the time resolution using a leading edge | 
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Fri Jul 20 00:44:13 2018 | 
Woon-Seng Choong | Effect of interpolation on timing | Just a follow-up update.
 
 
It turns out that I was using a 
cubic spline interpolation with smoothing. | 
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Wed Mar  6 10:09:01 2019 | 
Willy Chang | drscl "no board found" in some Win7 or Win8.X PCs | Hi all, 
 
 
When connecting the board and running 
the Zadig program, some Windows PCs may return "driver | 
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  447  
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Tue Nov  3 22:37:56 2015 | 
Will Flanagan | Latest macro for DRS4 V5 | Hi DRS4 Experts,
 
 
I have an extremely naive question: 
Is there any official macro to unpack the | 
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  448  
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Tue Nov  3 23:15:38 2015 | 
Will Flanagan | Latest macro for DRS4 V5 | I should of course mention that I looked 
through the DRS4 website and didn't see 
anything obvious: https://www.psi.ch/drs/evaluation-board | 
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Thu Nov  5 00:18:42 2015 | 
Will Flanagan | Latest macro for DRS4 V5 | Hi Stefan,
 
 
This is absolutely perfect.
 
 
Thanks, | 
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  539  
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Wed Oct  5 22:43:29 2016 | 
Will Flanagan | Timestamp for each DRS4 waveform | Hi DRS4 Experts,
 
 
I have been analyzing DRS4 binary 
data with scripts based on Stefan's (very | 
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Thu Oct  6 15:23:18 2016 | 
Will Flanagan |   | Hi Stefan,
 
 
That is exactly what I'm looking 
for. Thanks again! | 
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Wed Mar 14 00:38:15 2018 | 
Will Flanagan | sub-ms precision timestamps? | Dear DRS4 community,
 
 
Is there a way to extract timestamps 
with sub-ms precision? The milliseconds of | 
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  336  
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Wed Apr 16 03:22:43 2014 | 
Wang  | why is the first channel output error?  |  Hi,
 
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Thu Apr 17 12:02:28 2014 | 
Wang  | The first channel is wrong. |  Hi, | 
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Thu Jul 20 13:00:44 2017 | 
Volodymyr Rodin | Driver installation on Windows 10 | Dear Laura
 
 
You need to disable driver signature 
enforcement.  Then try again with path | 
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Fri Jul 21 09:16:02 2017 | 
Volodymyr Rodin | Time output | Hello Stefan
 
 
I tried to convert binary to a 
simple txt file and found next problem - | 
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Tue Jul 25 14:47:05 2017 | 
Volodymyr Rodin | Time output | Hi again.
 
 
Okay, it works with 5.05 version very 
good and it is enough for me. | 
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Tue Oct 17 14:58:58 2017 | 
Vadym Denysenko | Time offset  | Hello.
 
 
 
 
 
I have a simple question, can I | 
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Wed Oct 18 11:48:14 2017 | 
Vadym Denysenko | Time offset  | Thank you for your reply!
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Tue Jan 31 01:37:35 2017 | 
VO HONG HAI | LLD and ULD discriminations, | Dear Stefan,
 
 Is there any way to develop 
LLD and ULD discrimination in DSR-4 evaluation 
board?
 
 Best regards,
 
V.H.Hai | 
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Wed Jul 30 11:38:58 2014 | 
Tsutomu Nagayoshi | Sampling speed of DRS4 Board ver4 |  Hello!
 
I have a question concerning the 
sampling speed of the DRS4 evaluation board. | 
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  651  
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Wed Jan 17 09:51:16 2018 | 
Tran Cong Thien | The input signals recorded are different with the signal showed in oscilloscope  | Dear Stefan,
 
 
I am using an DRS4 board to record 
the signals from an plastic scintillator | 
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Thu May 29 04:22:43 2014 | 
Toshihiro Nonaka | CalibrationWaveform | I'm writing the drs_exam.cpp to use multi-boards(v3, 
firmware:4.0.0), and taking data succeeded. 
But I have several questions about function | 
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Wed Apr 27 08:14:14 2016 | 
Toshihiro Nonaka | serial number problem  | Dear all,
 
 
I'm using 3 DRS boards simultaneously 
and their serial numbers are 2169, 2170, | 
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  516  
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Wed Apr 27 09:51:37 2016 | 
Toshihiro Nonaka | serial number problem  | The serial number has been fixed by 
using drscl. Thank you!
 
 
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Wed Jul 12 04:24:39 2017 | 
Toshihiro Nonaka | Time resolution between boards | Hello,
 
 
I 'm using four evaluation 
boards v.3 to construct the multi-board DAQ | 
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Fri Feb 26 17:05:26 2021 | 
Tom Schneider | Trouble getting PLL to lock | Hello,
 
 
I am working on a custom PCB design 
with the DRS4 chip, and I can't get the | 
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  813  
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Fri Feb 26 18:33:52 2021 | 
Tom Schneider | Trouble getting PLL to lock | Stefan,
 
 
Thanks for responding so quickly.  
Yes I have my clock source going to REFCLK+ | 
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Fri Feb 26 21:24:39 2021 | 
Tom Schneider | Trouble getting PLL to lock | Probe capacitance makes that tricky - if 
I put my probe on DSPEED, I see that it starts 
at approx. 2.5V then gradually decreases | 
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  817  
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Fri Feb 26 22:52:13 2021 | 
Tom Schneider | Trouble getting PLL to lock | Thats not a simple modification to my PCB, 
but I'll give it a try.  Thanks 
for your help | 
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  818  
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Thu Mar  4 21:36:14 2021 | 
Tom Schneider | Trouble getting PLL to lock | I found the problem, and it had nothing 
to do with the CMOS clock input.  As 
it turns out, even though I was using the | 
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  858  
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Tue Jan 25 14:15:00 2022 | 
Thomas M. | Regarding measuring for a set time | Hello,
 
 
I'm working on a project wherein 
we're looking at photomultipliers. We've | 
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  860  
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Tue Jan 25 14:44:49 2022 | 
Thomas M. | Regarding measuring for a set time | Yes, you've got it exactly right. Thank 
you, that helps a lot! 
 
 
Thomas | 
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Fri Feb 24 17:34:28 2017 | 
Tarik Zengin | Passing parameters to drscl | Hi everyone,
 
 
I wonder if there is a way to pass 
parameters to drscl. What I specifically | 
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  807  
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Wed Jan 20 12:14:49 2021 | 
Taegyu Lee | drs4 persistence | Dear all,
 
 
I have a question about the function that 
drs4 can perform. | 
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Sat Apr 15 03:48:31 2017 | 
Strahinja Lukic | Wave rotation during transfer from the board? | I don't know if this question is already 
documented elsewhere.
 
 
I am developing a DAQ code for | 
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  607  
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Thu Apr 20 06:30:13 2017 | 
Strahinja Lukic | Wave rotation during transfer from the board? | Thanks.
 
 
Strahinja
 
 
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Tue Feb 27 13:17:00 2018 | 
Steven Block | WIndows Connection problem with drs507 SOLVED | Hello All,
 
 
I too have been struggling with 
trying to get the drs4 (507) to work on my | 
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Tue Feb 27 16:34:26 2018 | 
Steven Block | DRS4 Dead times | Hello All,
 
 
I am currently trying to figure 
out how to properly characterize the dead | 
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Tue Feb 27 18:04:18 2018 | 
Steven Block | DRS4 Dead times | That is extremely helpful! Many thanks. 
One more question; If I were to take inputs 
from 2 channels at once, would that scale | 
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  663  
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Fri Mar  2 18:08:55 2018 | 
Steven Block | ROI  | Hello,
 
 
I have a question about how ROI 
works. From what I have read, it will only | 
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Fri Mar  2 21:05:48 2018 | 
Steven Block | ROI  | Great! That is very helpful. 
 
 
One more question. If no signals 
were detected in the 1024*200ps time frame | 
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Mon Oct 21 14:43:21 2013 | 
Stephane Debieux | DRS4 analog outputs - interfacing DRS4 to AD9222 ADC | Hi,
 
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Tue Oct  7 14:09:02 2014 | 
Stephane Debieux | USB Microcontroller firmware | Hi,
 
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Mon Oct 13 17:08:40 2014 | 
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Tue Oct 14 16:21:07 2014 | 
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Mon Dec 15 13:37:38 2008 | 
Stefan Ritt | Welcome |  Welcome to the DRS4 Discussion Forum. 
This forum contains information and discussions 
related to the DRS4 chip. Please subscribe | 
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Wed Jan 14 12:02:04 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | External Trigger Input requirements | Several people mentioned that the external 
trigger input (TTL) does not work on the 
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Wed Jan 14 13:41:44 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | External Trigger Input requirements |  
 
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Wed Feb 11 12:21:07 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Corrected datasheet Rev. 0.8 |  Please note the new datasheet Rev. 
0.8 available from the DRS web site. It fixes 
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Mon Feb 23 09:24:24 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Rise-time measurements | Many applications using the DRS4 need to 
measure fast rising signals, like for PMTs 
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Mon Apr 27 15:09:49 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Amplitude and Timing calibration for DRS4 Evaluation Board | This is a quick notification to all users 
of the current DRS4 evaluation board.
 
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Tue Apr 28 11:44:07 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board | Several people asked for s simple application 
to guide them in writing their own application 
to read out a DRS board. Such an application | 
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Wed Apr 29 07:57:33 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board |  
 
 
    
 
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Wed Jun 10 12:46:43 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Input range switch added in Version 2.1.3 |  A new software verison for the DRS4 
Evaluation Board has been has been released. 
Version 2.1.3 adds a switch for the input | 
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Tue Jul  7 16:39:57 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Power up problem and remedy | Maybe some of you have experienced that 
the DRS4 chip can get pretty hot after power 
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Thu Jul  9 09:11:03 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Current problems with drs_exam.cpp | The current version of the DRS readout 
example program drs_exam.cpp has two problems:
 
 
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Tue Oct  6 11:20:39 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | VDD instability | It has turned out that the stability of 
the AVDD and DVDD power supplies for the 
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Wed Oct  7 17:58:20 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | VDD switch off speed | It turned out that the VDD switch off speed 
plays some important role. On our VME board, 
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Fri Oct 16 10:16:10 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | DSR4 Full Readout Mode | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Oct 19 09:13:00 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | BIAS Pin of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Oct 19 12:46:12 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | output common mode voltage of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov  4 14:42:22 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | outline dimension of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Dec 15 14:38:09 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Dec 21 16:52:08 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Dec 22 09:07:27 2009 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jan 11 16:32:21 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | normal_mode_in_drs_exam.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Feb  1 08:30:42 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Failure In Flashing Xilinx PROM | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Feb 10 15:35:09 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Hello | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Feb 16 09:38:59 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Problem reading oscilloscope binary waveform output | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sat Feb 20 09:54:48 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Sun Feb 21 13:41:35 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Real Time Conference 2010 | Hello,
 
may I draw your attention to the 
upcoming Real Time Conference 2010, taking | 
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Sun Feb 21 13:47:03 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sun Feb 21 20:33:57 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Mar  3 14:37:40 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Mar  3 17:49:30 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Initialization of the Domino Circuit | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Mar 10 10:07:28 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Serial Interface Frequency of the DRS Chip | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Mar 11 11:45:52 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Readout of DRS Data | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Mar 12 08:04:44 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Input Bandwidth of the DRS Chip | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Mar 18 22:10:41 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Serial Interface Frequency of the DRS Chip | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Mar 22 09:12:19 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | PLL Loop Filter Configuration | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Apr 13 13:12:43 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | evaluation board used like a counter | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Apr 13 13:56:07 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Baseline Variation In Data | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Apr 13 14:15:16 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Apr 14 16:34:28 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | version 1.2 evaluation board with firmware 13279? | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Apr 15 13:48:40 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | ROFS Configuration | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon May  3 11:09:12 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 chip model | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon May  3 17:10:29 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 chip model | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue May  4 11:26:21 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 chip model | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu May  6 08:15:39 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Random noise spec in datasheet | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed May 12 16:26:12 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 chip model | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri May 14 08:40:14 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue May 18 08:23:07 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue May 18 09:24:02 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Reference design for DRS4 active input buffer | The design of high frequency differential 
input stages with the DRS4 is a challenge, 
since the chip draws quite some current at | 
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Wed May 19 09:16:02 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jun  1 13:36:18 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | High Frequency Input for DRS | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Jun 18 11:45:18 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jun 22 11:02:30 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Reset of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jun 22 11:35:18 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Reset of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jul 12 16:07:37 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Announcement evaluation board V3 | Dear DRS4 users,
 
a new version of the evaluation board 
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Mon Jul 19 12:47:17 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Fixed Patter Timing Jitter | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jul 21 10:58:20 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt |  ENOB of DRS | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Nov 16 16:38:06 2010 | 
Stefan Ritt | Reference design for DRS4 active input buffer | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sat Feb 19 22:46:35 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | how to synchronize Sampling frequency of two evaluation boards | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Feb 21 08:10:31 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | how to synchronize Sampling frequency of two evaluation boards | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Feb 25 10:13:51 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | Announcement digital pulse processing workshop | Dear colleague,
 
if you live not so far from Zurich, 
you might be interested in this workshop: | 
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Fri Apr 15 08:28:54 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | Fixes to DOScreen.cpp for recent built on linux | > Hello,
 
> 
 
> I was just building version 3.1.0 and ran | 
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Thu Jun  2 21:01:29 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | Removing spikes | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jul  5 10:09:43 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | Fixed Patter Timing Jitter | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jul 13 04:26:52 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | Fixed Patter Timing Jitter | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Sep  7 16:56:43 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 and AD9222 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Sep  9 09:31:33 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 and AD9222 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Sep 19 08:53:22 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | compilation error for version 4.0.0 on linux | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sat Oct 22 00:40:02 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 eval board: readout rate | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Oct 24 10:30:15 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | Phase Shift for ADC Readout | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Nov  1 11:07:02 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | How to link PMT | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Dec 12 16:43:04 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | DC coupled DRS4 input stage | In the attachement you will find a working 
DC-coupled input stage to the DRS4 chip. 
The bandwidth of this design is about 700 | 
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Wed Dec 14 08:55:29 2011 | 
Stefan Ritt | Synchronization Delay in the Firmware for 8051 Controller | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Jan 20 08:09:38 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs_exam.cpp for evaluation board version 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jan 26 09:15:42 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4  Rev2.0  for analog pulse counting | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jan 26 09:49:38 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4  Rev2.0  for analog pulse counting | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jan 31 08:10:37 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | IEEE Real Time 2012 Call for Abstracts | Hello,
 
I'm co-organizing the upcoming Real 
Time Conference, which covers also fields | 
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Mon Feb  6 08:15:38 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | what sort of detectors for physical experiment the DRS4 used? | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Feb 24 15:52:43 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4- analog pulse counting | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Mar  1 19:22:26 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4- analog pulse counting | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Mar 20 16:33:50 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Mar 21 09:39:33 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Apr 25 13:42:37 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Initialization | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jun 20 12:45:05 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jun 20 14:44:38 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jun 25 14:21:13 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jul 10 13:15:00 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | Problem compiling drs_exam.cpp on windows | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Aug  6 02:44:00 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | Calculation of loop filter parameters (R,C1and C1) for 1 GHz | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Aug 29 10:52:44 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS-4.0.0 DOScreen.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Aug 29 16:45:36 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS-4.0.0 DOScreen.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Oct  4 20:59:18 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS5 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Oct 12 14:09:37 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS abbreviation | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Nov  1 20:17:42 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 firmware | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Nov  1 20:32:03 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 firmware | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Nov 13 11:26:32 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | GetWave | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov 21 08:38:26 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | Question for using Multi board | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov 28 16:54:46 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS Oscilloscope for Raspberry Pi and Mac OSX 10.8 | I made a pre-compiled package for Mac OSX 
10.8 (Mountain Lion), so one should be able 
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Mon Dec  3 09:18:09 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | Another question about using multi boards. | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Dec  4 09:39:44 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | Question of drs4 using | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Dec  4 09:55:43 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | Question of drs4 using | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Dec 13 12:14:35 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS-4 trigger | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Dec 14 08:42:53 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS-4 trigger | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Dec 14 21:49:29 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | EVM rev4 board trigger change and drs_example | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Dec 27 09:49:17 2012 | 
Stefan Ritt | variation of sampling capacitors | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Feb  5 14:38:35 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | variation of sampling capacitors | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Feb 13 17:03:53 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Nonuniform sampling | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Feb 22 11:56:57 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 trigger, different polarity | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Feb 28 12:58:44 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | clock and trigger outs | > Hi,
 
> I am considering using the DRS4 evaluation 
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Wed Mar  6 12:37:14 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4- analog pulse counting | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Mar  6 13:08:03 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Chip Test - Cell Error | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Apr  4 11:21:04 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Differences in Source Code | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Apr  4 11:32:21 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Apr  5 08:54:37 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Apr 11 08:39:12 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Apr 12 08:25:05 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Apr 12 08:38:17 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | code/details for optimal DRS4 timing calibration? | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Apr 22 15:52:53 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | effect of jitter/alignment between SRCLK and ADC clock | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue May 21 13:25:41 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | mac osx 10.6 | > Hi,
 
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> I would like to use the DRS4 with my macbook | 
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Tue May 21 17:51:09 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | mac osx 10.6 | > > 
 
> > it looks like 64bit vs 32bit problem, 
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Fri May 24 18:20:14 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | mac osx 10.6 | > I made some progress. Understood what was 
wrong in the make phase. You have only to 
add the option -arch i386 in the CFLAGS line | 
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Sat May 25 21:03:22 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4- analog pulse counting | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Jun  7 10:22:48 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt |   | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jun 10 16:24:21 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | add an average ability to the Scope | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jun 18 14:19:39 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | ROOT program to decode binary data from DRSOsc | Please find attached a simple ROOT based 
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Sat Jul  6 06:10:38 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Missing methods in drs-4.0.1.tar.gz | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jul  9 12:23:06 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | cannot save in binary format | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jul 16 16:25:43 2013 | 
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Tue Jul 23 22:35:08 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Evaluation Board Behavior | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jul 29 06:04:45 2013 | 
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Wed Aug  7 15:10:57 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Repeated time calibration | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Aug 12 22:18:39 2013 | 
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Mon Sep 23 09:26:56 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Sampling Frequency: DRS4 eval board | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov  6 12:25:31 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | flickering screen for drsosc | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov  6 16:35:42 2013 | 
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Thu Nov 14 12:51:56 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Cascading of channels  | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Nov 18 16:00:26 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | synchronisation of readouts of two boards for offline analysis | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Nov 19 09:09:01 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRSOsc at Mac OS X Mavericks | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov 20 08:16:10 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRSOsc at Mac OS X Mavericks | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Nov 21 14:45:56 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | Cascading of channels  | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Nov 26 15:38:13 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | reducing sampling speed | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Dec 10 14:54:46 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | measurement range | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Dec 13 11:37:58 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | input protection in DRS4 evaluation board | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Dec 17 08:45:32 2013 | 
Stefan Ritt | synchronisation of readouts of two boards for offline analysis | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jan  9 11:02:46 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | v5 software with v4 board calibration | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jan 15 14:20:51 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Announcement of new Evaluation Board V5 | Dear DRS community,
 
starting from this year, we ship 
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Wed Jan 15 15:48:55 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | USB connection stops | Hi,
 
 
finally I found some time to look into this | 
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Wed Jan 15 16:15:00 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Some bug fixes and questions | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jan 15 17:02:58 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Some bug fixes and questions | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jan 15 17:11:14 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Some bug fixes and questions | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jan 15 17:34:55 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 v2.0 Eval Board running on higher versions of DRS Oscilloscope program | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jan 15 17:37:21 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 installation on Windows 8 issues | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Feb  5 13:41:42 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Repeated time calibration | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Feb 18 14:12:37 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Announcement of new Evaluation Board V5 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Mar  6 11:12:44 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Software drs-5.0.0 fails to compile (drsosc) | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Apr 16 08:20:36 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs_exam project fail to compile | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Apr 16 08:30:32 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | why is the first channel output error?  | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Apr 16 10:24:55 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Evalboard V5 with Windows7Pro64bit | > 
 
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Tue May 13 19:39:36 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | drsosc binary to cern ROOT file conversion | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue May 13 23:08:50 2014 | 
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Mon May 19 08:04:57 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | simultaneous writing and reading with region of interest mode? | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue May 27 16:07:17 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Spikes in DRS4 data on custom baord. | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jun 11 11:13:50 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Announcement of new Evaluation Board V5 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jun 12 12:46:00 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS eval bord v5 Timing | > a) Calibration:
 
> I am using 4 boards daisy chained. To achieve 
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Thu Jun 12 17:16:13 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | CalibrationWaveform | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jul 16 12:10:19 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | change cascading from 1024 to 2048 bins for each input channel | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jul 30 17:05:06 2014 | 
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Wed Jul 30 17:05:38 2014 | 
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Tue Aug 26 12:32:21 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | 10GSps on DRS4 Evm with delay cables | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Sep 12 13:00:04 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | synchronizing two DRS4 evaluation boards readout with one computer | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Sep 12 13:41:43 2014 | 
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Fri Sep 12 16:08:49 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | compilation error for v5.0.2 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Sep 22 14:52:21 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | compilation error for v5.0.2 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Sep 22 15:04:37 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Timing Calibration Fail | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Oct 13 16:46:56 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | USB Microcontroller firmware | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Oct 13 17:14:58 2014 | 
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Tue Oct 14 16:29:12 2014 | 
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Tue Oct 14 16:38:14 2014 | 
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Wed Oct 15 10:52:58 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Clock settings in daisy chain DAQ | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Oct 15 12:15:58 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Clock settings in daisy chain DAQ | Here is the full version 
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Thu Oct 16 16:15:16 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | binary files with more than 4 drs board ver. 5.0.2 | > Dear Stefan
 
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Thu Oct 16 16:16:12 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | binary files time calibration header in drs-5.0.2 | > Dear Stefan
 
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Tue Nov 25 14:06:34 2014 | 
Stefan Ritt | Raspberry Pi drsosc does not exit properly | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Jan 16 14:12:19 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10 | > Hello,
 
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Tue Mar 17 02:53:26 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Running 2 instances of a DRS DAQ program | I never had in mind running two systems 
in parallel, that's why the code claims 
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Mon Apr 20 13:08:24 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Clock settings in daisy chain DAQ | The resolution coming from the sampling 
rate goes into these numbers, but just marginally. 
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Tue Apr 21 12:01:45 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt |  DRSBoard::SetTriggerSource | Your first assumption is correct, e.g.
 
 
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Tue Apr 21 12:52:18 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Evaluation Board  Baseline/Voltage Calibration  | 1) I tried to cablirate a V5 board with 
drsosc 5.0.3 and it just worked fine for 
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Tue Apr 21 13:06:39 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Evaluation Board  Baseline/Voltage Calibration  | Sure, for a V3 board you need a pre-V5 
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Wed May 13 08:19:53 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Getting Trigger Source | DRSBoard::GetTriggerSource() simply returns 
what has been enabled via DRSBoard::SetTriggerSource(). 
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Wed May 13 09:45:51 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | transparent-mode voltage | The ROFS signal has no effect in the transparent 
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Wed May 13 10:16:40 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | transparent-mode voltage | I see your point. Actually I will soon 
have the same issue since we design right 
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Wed May 13 12:34:49 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | transparent-mode voltage | There might be a solution. How do you bias 
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Wed May 13 16:25:24 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | transparent-mode voltage | To get the good linearity, you need indeed 
ROFS = 1.05V. With a O-OFS of 0.9V, a zero 
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Fri May 22 14:25:45 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 firmware UCF constraints  | > Hello, I'm using two DRS4 rev.5 boards for 
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Wed Jun  3 09:07:38 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Peculiar behavior of time values for Rev5 DRS4 EB | First of all, you should not use new boards 
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Fri Jun  5 12:07:38 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 firmware UCF constraints  | I presume you have several evaluation boards 
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Fri Jun  5 13:29:55 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 firmware UCF constraints  | Do the following: 
 
 
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Fri Jun  5 13:32:03 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 firmware UCF constraints  | Actually we should take this offline not to 
pester other DRS users which are not interested 
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Tue Jun 16 22:26:41 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Evaluation Board Osc Application | There is a horizontal position slider in 
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Fri Jul  3 17:13:27 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Creation of Object files | Hi Felix,
 
 
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Mon Jul  6 19:25:27 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Creation of Object files | Anyhow it would be nice if you just post 
your Makefile here, which runs with the standard 
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Thu Jul 23 13:46:12 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Measure the time between different samples | > Hi,
 
>   I have a question using a data acquisition 
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Wed Nov  4 15:40:10 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Latest macro for DRS4 V5 | Have a look here: elog:361
 
 
 
 
 
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Wed Nov 25 08:20:47 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | PC software beyond Windows 7 | Have a look here elog:434
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Wed Dec 23 15:48:42 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | No idea what you do wrong. I need to see 
oscilloscope traces for all your inputs and 
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Thu Dec 24 12:45:41 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | I want to see the trace on the scope for 
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Mon Dec 28 11:05:15 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | Thanks for posting the plots. It really 
looks like the PLL is not working. I see 
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Wed Dec 30 17:00:00 2015 | 
Stefan Ritt | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | While I can understand 1., I'm puzzeled 
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Tue Jan 12 12:57:46 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | PC software beyond Windows 7 | The 5.0.4 version was corrupt on our server. 
I fixed it, so now it shoudl also work fine 
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Tue Jan 12 16:06:07 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Use of Channel Cascading in drs_exam.cpp | Hi Larry,
 
 
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Tue Jan 12 21:02:31 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Compiling DRS-exam | I guess you are compiling under MS Windows 
??? You probably don't link correctly 
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Thu Jan 14 14:11:06 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Dtap stops toggling after 40msec | Thanks for the update, I will add a note 
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Fri Jan 15 08:09:00 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Triggering of DRS4 in the fastest sampling mode | Hi Chris,
 
 
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Tue Feb 16 11:21:43 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Saving histogram data | There is no histogram save functoinality 
in ther DRSOscilloscope program - on purpose. 
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Mon Feb 29 13:09:29 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | baseline shift | The baseline shift comes from some instable 
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Mon Feb 29 14:09:21 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | two DRS4 boards configuration with 2048 samples each | The multi-board mode has never been tested with 
2048 samples, so is very likely not to work. 
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Tue Mar 22 12:54:41 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt |   | Yes this is correct. But it is a sample-and-hold 
circuit. So the sampling cell follows the 
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Thu Mar 31 19:35:06 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | No. You have to use an inverter for one 
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Thu Mar 31 20:34:25 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | Here is one (SI 100): https://www.picoquant.com/products/category/accessories/adapters-splitters-cables-various-accessories-for-photon-counting-setups
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Sat Apr  2 11:41:07 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Question about timimng calibration | The evaluation board normally has 1024 
bins per channel. We offer an option with 
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Mon Apr  4 11:31:34 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | Dear Daniel,
 
 
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Mon Apr  4 12:08:15 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | Then it seems that there is some USB communication 
problem. I heard this also from other people, 
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Tue Apr  5 16:08:59 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | I tried this night to run the board at 
a 10 Hz rate with an external pulser, without 
writing, and it did not freeze after ~14 | 
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Wed Apr  6 08:41:08 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | Even with writing for one night no problem 
(see below). Have you checked how big your 
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Tue Apr 26 09:54:16 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Negative fCellDT values from GetTimeCalibration() | I just realized that the negative bin widht 
is not explicitly mentioned in the quoted 
paper. So let me explain it here: | 
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Tue Apr 26 13:42:42 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 purchase information | Just be patient. Anita is not at work this 
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Wed Apr 27 09:04:01 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | serial number problem  | If dis- and reconnecting the board does 
not help, there is the (small) chance that 
the serial number got erased in the board. | 
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Thu Apr 28 15:46:34 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Best settings for time measurements | The DRS4 chip has been designed to work 
best at high sampling speeds. At 700 MSPS, 
the chip is at it's limit and timing | 
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Thu Apr 28 15:47:53 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | New software version and binary format | A new software version 5.0.5 has been released 
today. This fixes a few bugs in multi-board 
configurations, and adds saving of the scaler | 
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Thu May 12 08:16:41 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Problem For Software Download | Can you tell me (screendump) what is the 
problem on the web site https://www.psi.ch/drs/software-download ? 
It should redirect you to | 
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Thu May 12 12:38:17 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Macro to save events | Dear Maksat,
 
 
If your car does not run, and you 
call the car dealer and tell him "my | 
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Wed Jun  1 23:16:01 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | problems when stop cell >= 767 ?? | I cannot confirm the story with the "stop 
capacitor > 767". It can be seen 
from your plots that the distribution of | 
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Wed Jun 15 14:49:00 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | problems of DRS4 | 1. Simultaneous writing and reading is 
not possible with the DRS4 chip. The manual 
says differently on p. 14, but due to a bug | 
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Wed Jun 29 09:10:01 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Negative input signals | Hello everybody,
 
 
I get often asked if the DRS4 evaluation 
board can accomodate negative input pulses | 
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Mon Aug 29 10:57:33 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | increment write config register on the fly? | The issue with "stopping at cell 767" 
would also affect this mode of operation. 
Furthermore, the DRS4 chip has only 10 bit | 
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Mon Aug 29 12:51:48 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | increment write config register on the fly? | The problem is when you change the write 
config register from 11111111 to 01111111, 
or from 00001111 to 00000111, then the last | 
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Fri Sep 30 17:03:38 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Output Timing Drifting | Hi Jacob,
 
 
you are missing the timing calibration. 
Each sampling cell has not the same width. | 
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Thu Oct  6 11:18:05 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Timestamp for each DRS4 waveform | In the mentioned read_binary.cpp file you 
have the line where you read the event header
 
 
i = fread(&eh, sizeof(eh), | 
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Sun Oct  9 11:39:18 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | time difference between 2 channels only ~30-35ps @ 5GSmples/s | Can you post a screenshot of your measurement?
 
 
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Mon Oct 10 12:03:27 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | time difference between 2 channels only ~30-35ps @ 5GSmples/s | Ok, I got it. The timing resolution is 
affected by the signal-to-noise ratio over 
the rise-time of your signal. You find the | 
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Tue Oct 11 09:20:04 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | time difference between 2 channels only ~30-35ps @ 5GSmples/s | Concerning the offset, it looks to me like 
you moved the offset slider slider of channel 
1 to a non-zero position. You see that from | 
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Tue Oct 11 22:11:26 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | time difference between 2 channels only ~30-35ps @ 5GSmples/s | Thank you very much! I will check it tomorrow!
 
 
-d
 
 
Concerning the offset, it looks | 
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Thu Oct 27 08:29:26 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Problems with DRS command line | [quote="Alexey Lubinets"]Hello, everybody
 
 
I have installed the software for the DRS4 | 
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Fri Oct 28 15:51:59 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Problems with DRS command line | No, I absolutely have no idea. Both DRSOsc 
and drscl use exaclty the same code to access 
USB.
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Tue Nov  8 10:20:52 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Missing Header | The web page from where you downloaded 
the software contains a sentence "requires 
libusb-1.0 package". Please install | 
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Wed Nov  9 19:49:07 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Missing Header | Best is to read this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4975
 
 
The source code for that is in 
DRS.cpp in the DRS software distribution | 
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Thu Nov 10 09:56:04 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Break Statements in DRS4 Binary to ROOT Macro | Hi,
 
 
fread() returns the number of bytes 
read and zero (I believe) if there is an | 
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Thu Nov 10 22:07:40 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Break Statements in DRS4 Binary to ROOT Macro | You're right, fread() return the number 
of objects read, so indeed it should be one 
if successful. | 
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Mon Nov 21 14:13:32 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Channel offsets in GetTime() | Cell 700 is arbitrary. You can choose any 
cell to align the channels to each other. 
The only requirement is that it's always | 
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Thu Nov 24 08:13:23 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | PLL did not lock | Which serial number has the board? Has 
it been in use before or is it a new board?
 
 
Stefan | 
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Thu Nov 24 13:24:26 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Potential Incorrect Timing Calibration for DRS4 Data | The code in the macro is correct. The misconception 
lies in the definition what "sample 
0" means. Please view the attached picture. | 
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Mon Nov 28 16:52:38 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | PLL did not lock | Have you tried to unplug and re-plug the 
board a few times? According to our database, 
you should have three boards. Do all three | 
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Wed Nov 30 08:53:58 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Potential Incorrect Timing Calibration for DRS4 Data | The inverter chain in the DRS4 is continously 
running in a ring. Once you get a trigger, 
it is stopped. This happens in any of the | 
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Wed Nov 30 10:45:29 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | Long timing between two channels | You cannot measure times longer than 1024/sampling 
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Wed Nov 30 19:05:24 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Initiation | Uhh, there are 1000 things which might 
be wrong. A bit like "my car is not 
working, it makes strange noise". Without | 
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Fri Dec  2 16:47:37 2016 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Initiation | No, I can't think of anything else. 
There is no intermediate addressing stage. 
The only thing which sometimes happens is | 
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Fri Jan 13 13:16:09 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS software doesn't work under Windows XP SP3 | The error probably comes from the fact 
that the drsosc.exe application is a 64-bit 
application and cannot be executed under | 
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Fri Jan 13 13:50:10 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS software doesn't work under Windows XP SP3 | Can you try that executable under XP: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j1n09afhbmh0zzu/drsosc.exe?dl=0
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Mon Jan 30 16:37:33 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | AND trigger problems  | In the evaluation board we use an ADCMP601 
comparator, which has a setup and hold time 
of 4.6 ns. So a pulse which exceeds the threshold | 
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Tue Jan 31 08:40:04 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | LLD and ULD discriminations, | Not inside the board. Each channel has 
a single discriminator. You can select to 
trigger on a rising or falling edge, but | 
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Fri Feb 24 18:35:38 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Passing parameters to drscl | This is indeed currently not implemented. 
But there is a simple C program drs_exam.cpp, 
which connects to a board and safes some | 
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Wed Apr  5 12:28:28 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | drscl doesn't find eval board but drsosc does (Windows 7) | Two people report now this problem, while 
this works fine at our lab. So I'm puzzled 
right now. | 
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Mon Apr 10 10:48:03 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 eval board v4 coincidence firmware changes for triger for short pulses | You have to download the package for your 
board, which then includes also the correct 
firmware for your board. If you have a V4 | 
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Mon Apr 10 10:50:57 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs4 registers behaviour | Using the RESET line to reset registers 
is not a good idea since it can have some 
bad side-effects. The READ SHIFT register | 
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Mon Apr 10 14:05:17 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs4 registers behaviour | 1. WRITE SHIFT register and CONFIG registers 
are initialized to "1" on power 
up, but if you want to change that, use A0-A3 | 
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Tue Apr 11 09:41:44 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs4 registers behaviour | What I do is the following: Have the RESET 
input unconnected. When you power up, this 
makes an internal reset during the power | 
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Thu Apr 13 16:50:18 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Stand-alone Time Calibration for PSI Board | Hard to say. Timing calibration is quite 
delicate. If you start from scratch, better 
read this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4975 | 
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Thu Apr 13 17:02:01 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Stand-alone Time Calibration for PSI Board | Than you can try to isolate the code. Note 
that different SCAs might work differently. 
Like the DRS4 has a channel-to-channel jitter | 
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Wed Apr 19 12:17:25 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Wave rotation during transfer from the board? | This is correct. Actually the amplitude 
array is rotated already inside the DRS4 
chip. So the readout starts with the stop | 
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Tue May 23 10:24:47 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Invalid magic number 0000 | Under linux, many people observed that 
the USB connection is unstable to the evaluation 
board. This must be related to the linux | 
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Fri May 26 08:48:25 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Invalid magic number 0000 | There is no other way to reset the board. 
As I said, people running this under Windows 
or MacOS are fine, so maybe this calls for | 
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Tue May 30 21:00:26 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Setting input range | See elog:531
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Thu Jun  8 15:52:20 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | AND Trigger problems with 2-3 channels | Can you post a screenshot where I can see 
the channel waveforms, the configuration 
and the trigger settings? | 
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Thu Jun 22 21:36:08 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | AND Trigger problems with 2-3 channels | Hi,
 
 
from our screenshots I see the 
following: | 
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Fri Jul  7 10:31:47 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger setting (AND AND) OR (AND AND) | Unfortunately not with the current firmware.
 
 
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Wed Jul 12 20:16:05 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Time resolution between boards | Yes this should  be possible.
 
 
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Mon Oct  2 16:08:05 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Event acquisition pace for irregular timing | As written in the documentation, the DRS 
evaluaiton board has a maximum trigger capability 
of ~500 Hz. This is limited by the USB bus | 
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Mon Oct 16 15:35:22 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Raspberry Pi Connection Failure | Have you tried as root? Maybe you miss 
some permissions.
 
 
Stefan | 
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Wed Oct 18 09:12:26 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Time offset  | No this is not possible. But you can delay 
your signal externally (like with a delay 
cable or electronically) and then send the | 
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Fri Nov  3 13:28:04 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Triggering using AND | Think about: How would you make a coincidence 
(AND) between two edges? Since an edge is 
infinitesimally small, there is no way to | 
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Wed Nov 22 08:48:36 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | using of the DRS Command Line Interface | The command line interface is more a debugging 
tool for experts, and you are not supposed 
to use it except to test the connection to | 
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Wed Nov 22 09:14:18 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | using of the DRS Command Line Interface | Remove the check mark from the "Lock" 
box and enter a different value in the sampling 
speed box and hit return. | 
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Wed Nov 22 14:52:31 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | Averaging capabilities  | This feature is not yet implemented. The 
(disabled) software swtich is more like a 
kind of a reminder to myself to work on that | 
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Tue Dec 12 13:58:06 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | External trigger using Raspberry Pi | Indeed the code does not work for the current 
evaluation board, it has been written for 
a previous version and never been updated. | 
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Wed Dec 20 16:21:42 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | First you need a board which is modified 
in hardware to support channel cascading. 
Basically there are internal resistors which | 
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Wed Dec 20 22:14:35 2017 | 
Stefan Ritt | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | https://bitbucket.org/ritt/drs4eb
 
 
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Wed Jan 17 10:09:09 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | The input signals recorded are different with the signal showed in oscilloscope  | First thing is to do another voltage calibration. 
Disconnect input, "Config", "Execute 
Voltage Calibration". If this does not | 
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Thu Jan 25 08:00:16 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | problem with the drscl(drs507) | This problem has been reported by several 
people, like elog:551
 
 
So far I could not solve it. On | 
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Tue Feb 27 13:29:47 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | WIndows Connection problem with drs507 SOLVED | Dear Steven, many thanks for this information, 
this is very useful. I know of people having 
problems on Windows 10, maybe this will also | 
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Tue Feb 27 17:04:12 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Dead times | XML is very slow to write, and you are 
probably limited by that. Switch to binary 
mode, which is much faster. You will see | 
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Tue Feb 27 18:12:32 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Dead times | For applications which are critical on 
the dead time, one typically uses one ADC 
per DRS4 channel, and thus the dead time | 
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Fri Mar  2 20:17:17 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | ROI  | N'/N is correct. The 2 us "from 
the response you got from me" come from 
the fact that after readout, you have to | 
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Thu Mar 15 08:44:26 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | sub-ms precision timestamps? | Putting sub-ms precision into the header 
does not make sense, since the USB transfer 
only happens in time-slots of about 2 ms. | 
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Fri Mar 16 14:00:06 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | confusion about the description in drs.cpp | The FPGA is very small, so it only has 
an address space of 256 bytes. Look at the 
definition in DRS.cpp | 
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Mon Mar 19 15:12:02 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Running drs_example.cpp | The time channel is already calibrated 
in ns. So for 5 GSPS, the time scale goes 
from zero to 200. Concerning your other issues | 
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Mon Mar 19 16:22:42 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | ROI  | The DRS4 has an internal storage of 1024 
capacitors. They work as a ring buffer, so 
at 5GSPS you can store 200ns wide signals. | 
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Fri Mar 23 09:39:55 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Read the CalibrateWaveform | You don't have to read and calibrate 
the waveforms in your user code, but can 
rely on the DRS.cpp library to do that. Just | 
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Tue Apr 17 13:28:23 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 read_binary.cpp  | On the software download page at https://www.psi.ch/drs/software-download 
you find a link to all versions of the DRS 
software, which is located at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/clqo7ekr0ysbrip/AACoWJzrQAbf3WiBJHG89bGGa?dl=0 | 
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Wed May  2 09:24:53 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 using drs_exam.cpp to save as binary files | You have to write the C/C++ code yourself 
to write data in binary or any other format. 
All information is present after the waveform | 
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Wed May  2 12:12:42 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Peak at 0 mV in traces | I note that your peak at zero is exactly 
twice as high as the bins left and right, 
so this looks to me like a binning problem | 
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Fri May  4 11:35:20 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Peak at 0 mV in traces | I tried the following:
 
 
- trigger on a 10 MHz sine wave 
on CH0, CH1 was open | 
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Fri May  4 11:56:08 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Voltage and Timing Calibration in drs_exam.cpp | Have you set the sampling frequency 
 
 
b->SetFrequency(5, true);
 
 
before the calibration? | 
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Fri May  4 12:11:57 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Running drs_example.cpp | And here is the second part of your answer: 
When you change the input range, you have 
to redo the voltage calibration. Best is | 
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Sun May  6 11:45:09 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | confusion about the description in drs.cpp | The locbus_addr is indeed 32 bits wide, 
since the firmware was originally derived 
from some firmware running in a VME crate, | 
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Tue May  8 14:43:03 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Peak at 0 mV in traces | The DRS chip is read out with a 12 bit 
ADC, thus the phyical resolution is roughly 
1V/4096 = 0.24 mV. I say roughly since the | 
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Wed May  9 09:03:52 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Manual Rev5.1 Figure 1, optional components | I updated the picture in the manual with 
a current picture of a Rev5.1 board, and 
also added a picture of the bottom side. | 
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Thu May 17 13:29:34 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | "Symmetric spikes" fixed | Good news for all DRS4 users. After many 
years, I finally understand where the "symmetric 
spikes" come from and how to fix them. | 
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Fri Jun  8 08:11:05 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt |   | Several people reported this problem, but 
we cannot reproduce it at our lab. Both the 
oscilloscope and the command line interface | 
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Wed Jun 13 13:42:47 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Maximum analog input voltage | In principle the numbers in the manual 
are correct. But they relate to pulses of 
a certain length, because the input protection | 
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Tue Jun 19 10:05:50 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | The data acquisition speed | How do you tigger the board? In your code 
below you start the board (StartDomino()) 
and then wait for a trigger. Setting the | 
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Fri Jun 29 07:51:33 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Negative Bin Width | Yes that's normal. A negative cell 
bin width means that the next cell N+1 samples 
the input signal before cell N. This can | 
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Tue Aug 14 06:10:49 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Latch delay support | I put that on the wish list, but I won't 
have time for that in the next months.
 
 
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Tue Aug 21 14:36:44 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Optimal readout speed | The analog output of the DRS4 chip needs 
some time to settle. In principle it need 
an infinite amout of time (exponential curve) | 
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Tue Sep  4 13:04:30 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | "Symmetric spikes" fixed | Yes it's possible, but I have to find 
time for that. The software of the evaluation 
board takes care of the spikes ("remove | 
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Wed Sep 26 14:44:14 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger OUT pulse width variable from 100 us up to 100 ms | The "Trigger OUT" has changed 
recently. It goes high on a new trigger, 
but then STAYS high until the board has been | 
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Wed Sep 26 19:21:03 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger OUT pulse width variable from 100 us up to 100 ms | In meantime I even updated the manual.
 
 
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Thu Nov  8 09:57:26 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Pi attenuator on eval board inputs? | The attenuator compensates for the gain 
of the buffer which is slightly above one. 
In addition, it serves as a "placeholder" | 
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Thu Nov  8 11:54:33 2018 | 
Stefan Ritt | Timing Issue | That's not a bug, but a feature of the DRS4 
chip. The time bins have different values 
by the properties of the chip. They are generated | 
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Wed Jan 30 08:02:25 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 domino wave stability study | The Domino wave is most stable at 5 GSPS, 
slowly degrades down to 3-2 GSPS, and at 
1GSPS gets some significant jitter. This | 
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Wed Jan 30 17:08:58 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | ROOT Macro for data acquired with the newest software | This one elog:361 
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Sat Feb  2 10:10:22 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Saving Rate (only 15Acq/s) | The reduction of rate is because you save 
in XML format, which is an ASCII format, 
so human readable, but takes long to write. | 
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Mon Feb  4 16:46:04 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Different Distances between the sampling points | The sampling points are NOT equidestant, 
they have varying bin widths of 150ps to 
250ps at 5GS/s. That's due the way the | 
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Mon Feb  4 18:18:22 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Different Distances between the sampling points |  elog:361
 
 
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Wed Feb 20 08:08:42 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | meg? | You have to change the path to libusb-1.0.lib 
to the one where you installed it.
 
 
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Wed Feb 20 12:56:56 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | meg? | No idea. Maye some access problem. Have 
you tried to start your program under an 
admin account? | 
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Thu Feb 21 09:57:53 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | no board found | Could be. Have you tried that elog:657
 
 
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Mon Feb 25 08:48:27 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | no board found | "dynamic" or "static" 
does not matter, as long as you don't 
use your program on another computer. I have | 
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Fri Apr 12 09:55:50 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | multi-board | Subtract 16 ns from your measured value 
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Fri Apr 12 12:50:18 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | multi-board | If you have two signal going through two 
cables, the cable have never the same length 
(on a scale of picoseconds), and you have | 
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Fri Jun 21 12:54:47 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Evaluation firmware wait_vdd state | Dear Andrew,
 
 
the posting you mention is still 
accurate. Any power supply will drop when | 
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Wed Jun 26 13:08:42 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs_exam is always reading out a sin wave | Sure, that’s correct. The example 
program turns on the internal sine wave generator 
in case people don’t have a real signal. | 
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Mon Jul  8 14:29:12 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs_exam is always reading out a sin wave | Actually in the original drs_exam.cpp the 
sine wave oscillator is turned off with this 
command | 
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Mon Jul 15 17:26:50 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Evaluation Board Test Functionality | Have you set the trigger correctly to the 
channel with your signal, polarity and level? 
Do you undersand the difference between normal | 
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Thu Jul 18 11:37:56 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trace Impedance | The requiremnet is the same as for any 
high speed analog board, there is othing 
special with the DRS4. If you want to terminate | 
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Sat Jul 20 12:28:14 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trace Impedance | The DRS4 input is high impedance. So if 
you like you can terminate it with 100 Ohm 
differentially and route it with 100 Ohm. | 
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Tue Aug 20 10:44:45 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | should one deassert DENABLE while writing the write-shift register? | Hi Bill,
 
 
you keep DENABLE active all the 
time to keep the Domino Wave running, but | 
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Tue Aug 27 09:14:03 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 | Is a 5 GSPS oscilloscope suitable for use 
with Silicon surface barier detectors?
 
 
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Mon Oct 14 10:14:46 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | how to acquire the stop position with channel cascading | You first set A3-A0, on the next clock 
cycle you issue pulses on srclk, and about 
10ns after each clock pulse the output shows | 
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Mon Oct 14 12:56:13 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | how to acquire the stop position with channel cascading | Note that you have to read out the Write 
Shift Register only if you do channel cascading, 
e.g. configuring the chip with 4x2048 bins | 
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Mon Oct 14 15:27:09 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | how to acquire the stop position with channel cascading | If you configure the Write Shift Register 
with 01010101b, then all you have to do after 
a trigger is to set A3-A0 to 1101. The WSROUT | 
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Fri Oct 25 16:39:07 2019 | 
Stefan Ritt | Computing corrected time from binary data...what is t_0,0? | t0,0 refers to the time of cell #0 of channel 
#0. So basically you keep channel 0 fixed, 
calculate the difference of each channel's | 
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Fri May 22 12:53:33 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 Evaluation board control tool 'drscl' with macro file | There is an example program in the distribution 
under software/drscl/drs_exam.cpp which is 
a stand-alone program to do what you need. | 
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Fri May 22 13:24:51 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | Type check at DOFrame.h in official software | The software is a bit outdated, I will 
soon make a new release. 
 
 
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Tue May 26 12:44:16 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | Domino wave | Look at the attached picture. For simplicity, 
only 4 cells are open and tracking the input 
signal. Time is flowing from top to bottom. | 
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Mon Aug 31 10:52:42 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | Dynamic Range Evaluation Board and Software | You cannot go below -0.5V for the inputs, 
since the board does not have an internal 
negative power supply, which would be necessary | 
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Mon Aug 31 17:17:30 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | Channel Cascading | If you have a board with cascading option, 
it should show the "combined" option 
in the 2048-bin option enabled (not grayed), | 
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Wed Oct  7 10:56:03 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | External triggering | The trigger is there only to trigger the 
chip, but cannot be used as a precise time 
reference. If you want to measure precise | 
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Tue Oct 27 13:37:23 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | Timing diagram of SROUT/SRIN signal to write/read a write shift register | Dear Seiya,
 
 
1) That's correct. SRIN is 
ampled at the falling edge. Pleae make sure | 
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Tue Oct 27 15:24:38 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | Timing diagram of SROUT/SRIN signal to write/read a write shift register | This is a static shift register, so you 
can make the clock as slow as you want. Actually 
I don't use a "clock", I just | 
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Thu Dec 17 11:31:34 2020 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs sources on github? | Not github, but bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ritt/drs4eb/src/master/
 
 
But development kind of stalled, so there | 
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Wed Jan 20 17:37:51 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs4 persistence | The chip itself can only sample a single 
waveform, that must be done in the attached 
software. The current DRSOscilloscope software | 
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Fri Feb 26 08:52:50 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS spike removal for multiple waveforms | Just look at the definition of the function 
below, all parameters are explained there. 
In meantime we have a firmware fix to avoid | 
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Fri Feb 26 17:59:14 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trouble getting PLL to lock | I guess you mean "1 MHz clock at REFCLK+", 
and not CLKIN, there is no CLKIN, just a 
SRCLK, but that is someting else! | 
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Fri Feb 26 20:32:25 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trouble getting PLL to lock | Can you post a scope trace of your refclk 
together with DTAP, DSPEED and DENABLE?
 
 
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Fri Feb 26 22:12:58 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trouble getting PLL to lock | Sounds to me like your REFCLK is not getting 
through or your PLL loop is open. Could be 
a bad solder connection. Try to measure signals | 
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Fri Mar  5 09:39:42 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trouble getting PLL to lock | That probably depends on the way your FPGA 
boots. If the SRCLK signal goes high after 
the SRIN - even a few ns - you might clock | 
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Wed Apr  7 08:26:12 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Unexpected noise in muxout: t_samp related? | Dear Sean,
 
 
noise in transparent mode comes 
from some coupling to your system clock. | 
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Fri Apr  9 20:55:28 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Unexpected noise in muxout: t_samp related? | If you do the cell calibration correctly, 
your noise should be ~0.4 mV. You seem to 
be 2-3x larger. The periodic negative spikes | 
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Fri Apr  9 21:38:59 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Spikes/noise sensitive to clock settings? | elog:824
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Wed May  5 10:12:44 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | recording only timestamp and amplitude and/or filesize maximum | The maximum file size depends on the underlying 
linux file system. Common values are 4-16 
GBytes. | 
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Mon Aug  9 12:50:31 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | C code to read the 4 channel with external trigger | Sorry the late reply, I was on vacation. 
 
 
Here are some answers:
 
 
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Sat Sep 18 15:47:50 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | how to acquire the stop channel with 2x4096 cascading  | The problem must be on your side, since 
the Write Shift Register readout works in 
other applications with the DRS4 chip. So | 
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Sat Sep 18 15:48:30 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs_exam_multi with non-v4 boards, default configuration | Hi,
 
 
please note the the evaluation 
board is what it says, a board to evaluate | 
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Thu Oct 14 15:25:07 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | livetime (or deadtime) of DRS4 evaluation board | The one thing you can do easily is to look 
at the scaler values. If one channel counts 
all physical events, and you have all read | 
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Thu Oct 14 18:42:31 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | livetime (or deadtime) of DRS4 evaluation board | I would say not exactly, but it's a 
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Tue Oct 26 12:00:51 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | External trigger and drs_exam | 1. Why should your waveform start from 
0 to 5ns? I don't get your point. Whenever 
you trigger a readout, you get a 200ns wide | 
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Tue Oct 26 12:02:56 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger multiple boards independently | Unfortunately an independent operation 
from a single computer is not supported by 
the software. You can try to modify the drs_exam | 
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Wed Oct 27 08:11:42 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | Trigger multiple boards independently | I'm not sure if the rate would go up 
to 2 kHz (not 2 GHz!). Depends how the USB 
hub is designed. What you can do however | 
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Tue Nov 16 08:51:14 2021 | 
Stefan Ritt | V3 board, only one channel works, all components at each channel input working | A V3 boards is already 10 years old and 
out of warranty. The software has no configuration 
to turn channels off except the channel buttons | 
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Mon Jan  3 17:13:41 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 request assistance | 1. fDOMINO is defined as fREFCLK * 2048
 
 
2. Good values can be derived from 
the evaluation board schematics: C1=4.7nF, | 
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Sat Jan 15 10:50:47 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | I want to know about the readout | 
 
	
 
		
 
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Tue Jan 25 14:34:42 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Regarding measuring for a set time | drsosc is a graphical application contiously 
acquiring data from the board, and drscl 
is a command line tool for debugging, as | 
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Tue Feb 15 12:02:29 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Cannot trigger on pulses, have to trigger on undershoot | The trigger comparator is a ADCMP601 unit 
which requires a minimum pulse width of 3-4 
ns. I see that your pulses are only 1-2 ns | 
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Thu Mar  3 13:47:26 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | How to convert samples to volt? | The 'drscl' tool is more for experts, 
normal users are advised to use the DRSOsc 
oscilloscope. | 
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Thu Mar  3 16:14:16 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Scaler issue to evaluate live time  | The scalers are read out 10x per seconds, 
so they have an accuracy of 10 Hz. I tried 
a 50 Hz pulser, and measured 40 Hz, I tried | 
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Mon Mar  7 08:45:32 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Why does not trigger at higher sampling frequencies? | Unfortunately I have not idea what the 
problem could be. In principle the trigger 
should be independent of the sampling speed, | 
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Mon Mar  7 16:37:54 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Scaler issue to evaluate live time  | I tried your measurement with the DRSOscilloscope 
app (see below), and I measure a constant 
difference of 10 Hz among the whole range | 
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Sat Mar 12 10:13:24 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Time calibration and the C++ API | DRSBoard::GetTime is declared in DRS.h 
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Mon Mar 14 08:59:51 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Time calibration and the C++ API | Looks like you have the some time calibration, 
not sure if it's the correct one. Sample 
the sine wave from the calibration clock, | 
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Tue Apr 12 10:49:27 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt |   | A3-A0 = 1001 should be all you need to 
activate OUT0-OUT7. It works in our designs. 
Maybe double check the address lines with | 
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Fri Jul 29 14:09:35 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Increase event rate, use ROI mode, and install sw from source in Mac | The firmware from the website always reads 
1024 bins. You have to modify it to stop 
before that, like reading only 128 samples | 
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Fri Jul 29 17:23:43 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Spikes/noise sensitive to clock settings? | Look at the DRS4 data sheet, Figure 12. 
You see there the rising SRCLK pulse which 
outputs the next analog value. You also see | 
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Tue Sep 27 10:37:11 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Required Firmware for DRS4 Evaluation Board Version 2.0 | You find each software version at the usual 
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Tue Sep 27 15:20:55 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Required Firmware for DRS4 Evaluation Board Version 2.0 | Sorry, got the wrong link. Here the right 
one: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/clqo7ekr0ysbrip/AACoWJzrQAbf3WiBJHG89bGGa?dl=0
 
 
If you untar the archive, you will | 
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Mon Oct 24 12:50:24 2022 | 
Stefan Ritt | Channel Cascading Option in the 2048-bin | The board is delivered in one or the other 
mode and not meant to be changed by the user, 
since this requires very delicate soldering | 
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Mon Feb  6 13:28:28 2023 | 
Stefan Ritt | DRS4 installation via tar in ubuntu not working | I fixed the described error. Can you try 
the new version from https://bitbucket.org/ritt/drs4eb/commits/80b3af753ed32eb365725f0f3244a4109347c01b
 
 
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Mon Jun 12 14:22:04 2023 | 
Stefan Ritt | Different sampling rates in multi-board configuration | No, that's unfortunately not possible.
 
 
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Wed Sep 13 13:18:45 2023 | 
Stefan Ritt | Input range switch added in Version 2.1.3 | To achieve an input range of -1V to 0V, 
you need an external buffer which can shift 
this range into the DRS4 range of -0.5V to | 
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Wed Oct 25 19:47:23 2023 | 
Stefan Ritt | WaveDREAM Design | No. This is a proprietary design.
 
 
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Thu Feb 22 10:37:03 2024 | 
Stefan Ritt | Simulation of FPGA | The Cypress has its own firmware, contained 
in the distribution under firmware/CY7C68013A/drs_eval.c. 
There you can see how the data is fetched. | 
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Mon Jan  6 12:52:23 2025 | 
Stefan Ritt | Problem with C++ script to use DRS4 evaluation board. Not taking data. | 1. Transparent mode is not needed for the 
hardware trigger, no idea why the code is 
there. You can probably remove it. | 
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Wed Mar 26 08:42:08 2025 | 
Stefan Ritt | drs_exam.cpp not compile | You have to link against the DRS.cpp library, 
plus usblib, plus ... Note there is both 
a Makefile and a CMakeLists.txt for it. Google | 
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Fri May  9 08:17:50 2025 | 
Stefan Ritt | Handling of Write Shift Register and Write Config Register | This is correct. Setting A0-A3 to 0b1101 
multiplexes the Shift Write Register to SROUT, 
so you will either a "0" or a "1" | 
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Fri May  9 08:26:17 2025 | 
Stefan Ritt | Clarification of full channel readout | The full readout mode is not really recommended 
since you have to pull out the stop position 
separately. Just do the ROI readout using | 
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Tue May 13 08:51:34 2025 | 
Stefan Ritt | Handling of Write Shift Register and Write Config Register | Yes this is correct. Anyhow, even if it 
would be working, you would not be happy 
with it. After having designed ~10 boards | 
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Mon Jul  7 16:53:26 2025 | 
Stefan Ritt | Wrong Firmware Version: board has 13279, required is 15147. Board may not work properly | You have to use the software belonging 
to that board. You cannot use the newest 
software with an old board. Look here: | 
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Wed Feb 29 06:46:47 2012 | 
Sonal | DRS4- analog pulse counting | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Mon Apr 16 21:21:29 2018 | 
Sobimpe Eniola | DRS4 read_binary.cpp  | Hello everyone, 
 
 
The new read_binary.cpp code 
 
 
I will be very glad if anyone can | 
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Wed Oct 15 10:14:32 2014 | 
Simon Weingarten | Clock settings in daisy chain DAQ | Hi,
 
I'm currently working on a little 
DAQ system with four DRS evaluation boards. | 
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Wed Oct 15 11:34:43 2014 | 
Simon Weingarten | Clock settings in daisy chain DAQ | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Apr 17 10:07:38 2015 | 
Simon Weingarten | Clock settings in daisy chain DAQ | Hi Stefan,
 
 
do you know how these numbers (400ps 
and 60ps) scale with the sampling rate? The | 
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Fri Oct 28 15:02:18 2016 | 
Simon Mendisch | Problems with DRS command line | [quote="Stefan Ritt"]
 
You are the first one describing this problem 
(out of ~200 people), so I guess the problem | 
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Tue Jun 25 23:04:29 2019 | 
Si Xie | drs_exam is always reading out a sin wave | We are using the drs_exam.cpp to read out 
waveforms, but it seems to be outputting 
only sin waves on all channels - as if it | 
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Wed Jun 26 15:10:09 2019 | 
Si Xie | drs_exam is always reading out a sin wave | I see. Where is the code that we can use 
to turn off the generator? I thought the 
example is taking data with CH1 as the trigger. | 
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Wed Jun 26 15:17:51 2019 | 
Si Xie | Running drs_example.cpp | Hi Rodrigo, I'm wondering how you solved 
your original triggering problem. We are 
also having trouble with collecting data | 
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Wed Oct 21 15:03:13 2020 | 
Seiya Nozaki | Timing diagram of SROUT/SRIN signal to write/read a write shift register | Dear Stefan,
 
 
I have questions about the timing | 
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Tue Oct 27 15:02:09 2020 | 
Seiya Nozaki | Timing diagram of SROUT/SRIN signal to write/read a write shift register | Dear Stefan,
 
 
Thank you for your reply. | 
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Wed Oct 28 04:32:19 2020 | 
Seiya Nozaki | Timing diagram of SROUT/SRIN signal to write/read a write shift register | Dear Stefan,
 
 
OK, it's good to hear! Thank you! | 
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Mon Oct 17 16:29:37 2022 | 
Sebastian Infante | DRS4 installation via tar in ubuntu not working | Hello i cant install any the last versions 
that i downloaded from the dropbox, i can 
untar the file called drs-5.0.6 and when | 
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Tue May  8 23:58:35 2018 | 
Sean Quinn | Manual Rev5.1 Figure 1, optional components | Dear All,
 
 
 
 
 
I'm troubleshooting a board | 
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Wed Aug  1 00:49:30 2018 | 
Sean Quinn | Optimal readout speed | Dear DRS4 team,
 
 
On page 3 of the data sheet, Table 
1. for readout speed a typical value of 10 | 
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Mon Nov  5 17:17:08 2018 | 
Sean Quinn | Pi attenuator on eval board inputs? | Dear DRS4 team,
 
 
 
 
 
I am curious about this part of | 
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Wed Apr  7 03:29:39 2021 | 
Sean Quinn | Unexpected noise in muxout: t_samp related? | Dear DRS4 team,
 
 
I'm experiencing some issues 
that seem to be isolated to the ASIC, and | 
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Fri Apr  9 20:22:13 2021 | 
Sean Quinn | Unexpected noise in muxout: t_samp related? | Hi Stefan,
 
 
 
 
 
Thanks much for the quick reply. | 
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Fri Apr  9 20:29:45 2021 | 
Sean Quinn | Spikes/noise sensitive to clock settings? | Dear DRS4 team,
 
 
I'm trying to troubleshoot 
some odd spike behavior. If I run the ADC | 
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Fri Apr  9 21:56:54 2021 | 
Sean Quinn | Unexpected noise in muxout: t_samp related? | Yes, there is some systematic board noise 
on this prototype, unfortunately  | 
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Thu Nov 14 11:39:06 2013 | 
Schablo | Cascading of channels  |  Hello,  I want use cascading 
of channels for 2048 cell - SetChannelConfig(0,8,4), 
but i can't understand how . Please, help | 
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Thu Nov 21 14:35:57 2013 | 
Schablo | Cascading of channels  | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jan 30 06:51:37 2019 | 
Saurabh Neema | DRS4 domino wave stability study | We have been using DRS4 IC in our design 
for quite some time and it is giving good 
performance. | 
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Sat Jul  5 04:36:13 2025 | 
Sandeep Godiyal | Wrong Firmware Version: board has 13279, required is 15147. Board may not work properly | I am using DRS4 Evaluation Board Rev.: 
2.0.. Command Line interface: "drscl" 
detecting the board with message: Found | 
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Wed May 11 15:48:57 2016 | 
SANDJONG Saturnin Orly | Problιme de Calibration de la DRS4 | Bonjour, Je suis en stage dans un laboratoire 
ou on utilise pour echantillonnage des données, 
une cartes DRS4 5GSPS avec 1024 cell, mon | 
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Sat Feb 19 17:25:29 2011 | 
S S Upadhya | how to synchronize Sampling frequency of two evaluation boards |  Dear sir,
 
We have two evaluation boards of 
DRS4. We would like to use 8 inputs to be | 
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Mon Feb 21 12:42:33 2011 | 
S S Upadhya | how to synchronize Sampling frequency of two evaluation boards | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Feb 15 19:43:34 2010 | 
Ron Grazioso | Problem reading oscilloscope binary waveform output | I have saved some waveforms using the oscilloscope 
application in both binary and xml.  
I can see that the xml file gives me proper | 
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Thu Apr 10 14:45:12 2014 | 
Roman Gredig | DRS4 Evalboard V5 with Windows7Pro64bit | 
 
Dear Stefan
 
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Thu Jun 12 12:40:03 2014 | 
Roman Gredig | DRS eval bord v5 Timing | Dear Stefan
 
 
I have two questions concerning the best | 
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Wed Aug 13 20:17:19 2014 | 
Roman Gredig | binary files time calibration header in drs-5.0.2 | Dear Stefan
 
 
I have a problem considering binary data | 
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Tue Aug 26 14:16:26 2014 | 
Roman Gredig | binary files with more than 4 drs board ver. 5.0.2 | Dear Stefan
 
 
after having some problems with writing binary | 
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Wed Mar  7 22:49:38 2018 | 
Rodrigo Trindade de Menezes | Running drs_example.cpp | Hello,
 
 
We have been using the DRS4 evaluation 
board (S/N 2636) that works with the scope | 
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Thu Mar  8 22:54:20 2018 | 
Rodrigo Trindade de Menezes | Running drs_example.cpp | We found a way to solve the previous problem, 
but right now when we try to set the input 
range only -0.5 to 0.5 is working. When we | 
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Thu Feb 22 01:21:11 2024 | 
Rod McInnis | Simulation of FPGA | Hello:
 
 
A bit of background:  I am 
working on a project that is utilizing the | 
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Thu Nov 26 18:59:27 2015 | 
Robert Adams | Saving histogram data | I would really love to be able to save 
histogram data, though I have not been able 
to do this. I could take a screenshot and | 
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Thu Jun  8 14:26:23 2017 | 
Rebecca Schmitz | AND Trigger problems with 2-3 channels | Hello,
 
 
I work with the DRS4 Evaluation 
Board V5 and I have a problem with the software. | 
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Fri Jun  9 09:44:33 2017 | 
Rebecca Schmitz | AND Trigger problems with 2-3 channels | Hello,
 
 
It 
seems that a coincidence with two fixed channels | 
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Tue May 21 18:13:08 2024 | 
Rebecca Hicks | Error when running drsosc | Hi, I'm a student trying to figure 
out the DRS4 board. I cloned the github repo, 
but when I run drsosc, I get an error: Gtk-Message: | 
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Tue Jul 28 22:40:44 2020 | 
Razvan Stefan Gornea | no board found | I have a very similar problem, the command 
line doesn't work but the oscilloscope 
program does! Tried to fix it using Zadig | 
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Thu Jan 26 09:12:03 2012 | 
Ravindra Raghunath Shinde | DRS4  Rev2.0  for analog pulse counting | Hello,
 
We are using DRS4 Rev.2.0 board.
 
We want to measure number of pulses | 
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Thu Jan 26 09:44:34 2012 | 
Ravindra Raghunath Shinde | DRS4  Rev2.0  for analog pulse counting | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Thu Jan 26 10:05:57 2012 | 
Ravindra Raghunath Shinde | DRS4  Rev2.0  for analog pulse counting | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Mon Nov 28 22:28:34 2016 | 
Randall Gladen | Long timing between two channels | I don't believe I fully understand 
how the timing works between multiple channels 
on DRS4 board, even after reading the manual, | 
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Fri Jan 16 13:29:05 2015 | 
Rainer Hentges | Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10 | Hello,
 
 
I can compile version 5.0.3 of DRS4sc on | 
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Mon Mar  7 13:38:03 2022 | 
Radoslaw Marcinkowski | Problems with DRS4 Evaluation Board after Windows 10 upgrade - share of experiences  | Dear DRS4 Users,
 
 
I would like to share my expireinces 
with using of DRS4 Evaluation Board software | 
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Wed Sep  7 10:13:41 2022 | 
Prajjalak Chattopadhyay | Register status after reset | What are the default register statuses 
after DRS4 gets reset? | 
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Thu Mar 22 14:36:01 2018 | 
Phan Van Chuan | Read the CalibrateWaveform | Helo
 
I'm building an application for 
reading waveforms from the DRS4 board to | 
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Thu Jun  7 16:27:21 2018 | 
Phan Van Chuan |   | Dear Stefan,
 
 
I am using an DRS4 board to test 
the signal from an scintillator detector; | 
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Tue Jun 19 06:42:23 2018 | 
Phan Van Chuan | The data acquisition speed | Dear Stefan,
 
 
We are using an DRS4 board V5.1 
for building a metering system for the scintillator | 
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Tue Jun 19 12:54:51 2018 | 
Phan Van Chuan | The data acquisition speed | Thank Stefan Ritt, I added the SoftTrigger() 
just after StartDomino(), so now, The data 
acquisition speed the same speed as in the | 
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Sat Oct 22 13:24:20 2022 | 
Phan Van Chuan | Channel Cascading Option in the 2048-bin | Dear Stefan,
 
We are using DRS4 evaluation board 
version 5.1 and firmware version 30000 (as | 
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Sun May 24 09:34:27 2015 | 
Peter Steinberg | Peculiar behavior of time values for Rev5 DRS4 EB | Hi -
 
 
I am setting up a new DRS4 rev5 
but using drivers and software we were recently | 
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Thu Sep 16 19:04:06 2021 | 
Patrick Moriishi Freeman | drs_exam_multi with non-v4 boards, default configuration | Hello, 
 
 
I made a modified version drs_exam_multi.cpp, 
but ran into an issue when running.  When | 
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Fri Jun 28 23:33:51 2024 | 
Patricia Lecomti | Error when running drsosc | Salut !
 
 
Je vois que tu rencontres un petit 
problème avec ton installation. Le | 
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Wed Mar  6 12:35:38 2013 | 
Osip Lishilin | DRS4- analog pulse counting | Hello, 
Stefan. Have you implemented pulse counting 
yet? | 
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Mon May 20 08:42:16 2013 | 
Osip Lishilin | DRS4- analog pulse counting | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jun  9 12:03:26 2014 | 
Osip Lishilin | Announcement of new Evaluation Board V5 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jun 16 15:35:59 2014 | 
Osip Lishilin | Announcement of new Evaluation Board V5 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Oct 12 14:06:04 2012 | 
Moritz von Witzleben | DRS abbreviation | Hello,
 
what is the abbreviation of DRS?
 
Thanks and kind Regards, | 
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Mon Nov 17 16:36:18 2014 | 
Mickey Chiu | Raspberry Pi drsosc does not exit properly | When running drsosc on a raspberry pi, 
it seems the exit doesn't seem to work at 
all.  This is true for the "exit" | 
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Fri Dec  9 17:45:48 2011 | 
Michael Bόker | Fixes to DOScreen.cpp for recent built on linux | > I was just building version 3.1.0 and ran 
into some problems in DOScreen.cpp.  Basically 
the conversions from
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Tue Jun 16 20:45:54 2015 | 
Michael Buadelk | DRS4 Evaluation Board Osc Application | Hi, I have a DRS4 v5 evaluation board and 
I have a novice question about the oscilliscop 
application. When I connect it to a photo-detector | 
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Sun Jun 12 08:45:52 2016 | 
Michael | problems of DRS4 | Hi
 
 
I want to use DRS4 to 
digitize 16 channels of signals. The width | 
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Sun Jun 12 08:49:54 2016 | 
Michael | problems of DRS4 | Hi
 
 
I want to use DRS4 to 
digitize 16 channels of signals. The width | 
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Wed Jul 14 14:55:09 2021 | 
Mehrpad Monajem | C code to read the 4 channel with external trigger | Hi there,
 
 
Recently I bought a 5GSPS evaluation 
board with 2048 sampling points. | 
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Tue Aug 10 13:57:09 2021 | 
Mehrpad Monajem | C code to read the 4 channel with external trigger | Thank you for the reply.
 
 
In the version that I have, I cannot 
find drs_exam_2048.cpp file. Could you please | 
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Tue Oct 26 10:41:46 2021 | 
Mehrpad Monajem | External trigger and drs_exam | Hi Stefan,
 
 
 
I have two problems regarding using | 
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Tue Oct 26 15:05:18 2021 | 
Mehrpad Monajem | External trigger and drs_exam | Thanks for your reply.
 
 
1- I want to have a window size 
of 25.6ns instead of 200ns at 5GSPS. I have | 
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Wed Aug  1 17:42:32 2012 | 
Mayank S. Rajguru | Calculation of loop filter parameters (R,C1and C1) for 1 GHz |  Hi,
 
we are planning to use the DRS4 in 
our board for 1 GHz sampling and digitization. | 
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Tue Mar 25 16:31:41 2025 | 
Matνas Tobar | drs_exam.cpp not compile | Hi! i'm trying to compile drs_exam.cpp 
but it yields the following error lines:
 
 
I do have the "DRS.h" | 
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Tue Apr  1 16:24:33 2025 | 
Matνas Tobar | drs_exam.cpp not compile | Thanks! I solved it by running ./drs_exam 
after execute Makefile (there was an inconsistency 
in the files directory). | 
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Thu Feb 25 17:56:39 2021 | 
Matthias Plum | DRS spike removal for multiple waveforms | Hi,
 
 
Is there a way that someone can 
help me and my student to enable RemoveSymmetricSpikes | 
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Sat Feb 12 13:06:56 2022 | 
Matias Senger | Cannot trigger on pulses, have to trigger on undershoot | I am using the DRS4 board trying to measure 
pulses produced by an LGAD. I have no prior 
experience with this board, have just installed | 
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Wed Mar  2 17:25:10 2022 | 
Matias Senger | How to convert samples to volt? | I am using the `drscl` app. My prior experience 
is practically zero, sorry if this is a very 
naive question. When I read using `read 0 | 
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Sun Mar  6 17:54:47 2022 | 
Matias Senger | Why does not trigger at higher sampling frequencies? | I have connected 3 signals to the DRS4 
Evaluation Board V5 which look like this 
in the drsosc app: | 
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Tue Mar  8 00:25:56 2022 | 
Matias Senger | Why does not trigger at higher sampling frequencies? | I have seen in the app that the trigger 
source buttons do something different than 
the "or" and "transparent | 
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Tue Mar  8 12:20:00 2022 | 
Matias Senger | Why does not trigger at higher sampling frequencies? | Sorry for the spam. Just want to let you 
know that I was able to solve the problem, 
it was all due to a `float` being casted | 
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Fri Mar 11 17:26:15 2022 | 
Matias Senger | Time calibration and the C++ API | I am using the V5 board at a fixed sampling 
frequency. With the `drsosc` app I have executed 
the time calibration at 5 GS/s (actually | 
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Sat Mar 12 16:52:36 2022 | 
Matias Senger | Time calibration and the C++ API | Dear Stefan,
 
 
For the time of each bin I am using 
the values returend by `GetTime` without | 
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Tue Mar 15 13:07:50 2022 | 
Matias Senger | Time calibration and the C++ API | Thanks for your help. If I look into the 
app the behavior for the 4 channels is exactly 
as you show: | 
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Tue Sep  5 03:28:52 2023 | 
Matias Henriquez | Input range switch added in Version 2.1.3 | Hello,
 
 
It is not quite clear to me yet 
how the input range is only determined by | 
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Fri Dec 20 20:35:31 2024 | 
Matias Henriquez | Problem with C++ script to use DRS4 evaluation board. Not taking data. | Hello,
 
 
I need to write a script in C++ 
to take data using the DRS4 evaluation board | 
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Mon Dec 23 19:31:31 2024 | 
Matias Henriquez | Trigger OUT pulse width variable from 100 us up to 100 ms | Given this new scenario, what is the maximum 
rate of events that can be processed then 
(a rough estimation would be great, 1/2ms?)? | 
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Fri Dec 27 22:04:48 2024 | 
Matias Henriquez | Problem with C++ script to use DRS4 evaluation board. Not taking data. | Hello, some updates:
 
 
     4. I was able 
to capture correct waveforms using c++ code. | 
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Wed Jun  1 09:57:43 2011 | 
Martin Petriska | Removing spikes | I have DSR4 eval board. Found that there 
are spikes in channels. Procedure Osc::RemoveSpikes 
to remove them looks litlle dificult. There | 
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Tue Mar 20 16:23:33 2012 | 
Martin Petriska | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels |  I have two BaF2 detectors with PMT 
connected to Ch1 and Ch2. At this time Im 
using external triger module to start DRS4. | 
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Wed Mar 21 09:33:00 2012 | 
Martin Petriska | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Oct 29 18:30:28 2012 | 
Martin Petriska | GetWave |  I have some question according to 
GetWave function. In drs_exam.cpp simple 
GetWave(0,0,wave_array[]) etc...is used. | 
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Thu Dec  6 09:23:36 2012 | 
Martin Petriska | EVM rev4 board trigger change and drs_example |  I switched from rev 3 to rev 4 board, 
but have some problems with triggering, board 
is now waiting for trigger (rev.3 is working). | 
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Wed Feb 13 16:58:40 2013 | 
Martin Petriska | Nonuniform sampling |  Are there any plans to include reconstruction 
of nonuniform sampling  in DRS4 to get 
uniformly sampled data? | 
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Tue May 21 13:32:13 2013 | 
Martin Petriska | mac osx 10.6 | > Hi,
 
> 
 
> I would like to use the DRS4 with my macbook | 
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Thu Jan  9 10:58:19 2014 | 
Martin Petriska | v5 software with v4 board calibration |  Hi
 
Question:
 
In v4 board, which channel has best | 
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Thu Aug 21 11:03:36 2014 | 
Martin Petriska | 10GSps on DRS4 Evm with delay cables |  Hi, I read its possible to use channels 
2,4,6 to extend 200ns to 400ns (1024bins 
to 2048). | 
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Wed Aug 19 15:07:53 2015 | 
Martin Petriska | QtPALS | There is software for DRS4 board and positron 
lifetime measurement availiable. Still in 
beta but works. Its usable for measuring | 
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Tue Feb 16 11:55:54 2016 | 
Martin Petriska | Saving histogram data |  
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Wed Apr  6 09:01:28 2016 | 
Martin Petriska | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  |  
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Wed Apr  5 12:40:16 2017 | 
Martin Petriska | DRS4 eval board v4 coincidence firmware changes for triger for short pulses | I would like to implement fpga firmware 
changes for DRS4 eval board v4 to put there 
posibility for standard coincidence (for | 
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Mon Aug 13 19:44:59 2018 | 
Martin Petriska | Latch delay support | Hi,
 
 
https://forge.physik.rwth-aachen.de/projects/drs4-rwth
 
 
Not sure about their licensing, | 
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Mon Sep  3 11:17:26 2018 | 
Martin Petriska | "Symmetric spikes" fixed | Hi,
 
 
Is it possible to fix it by FPGA 
changes?  I see readout cycle (proc_drs_reedout) in | 
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Thu Sep 13 18:09:13 2018 | 
Martin Petriska | "Symmetric spikes" fixed | Ok, so I made it ... and Yes it works :), 
 
 
https://youtu.be/0noy4CoFoh8 
 
 
here is changed part in drs4_eval4_app.vhd | 
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Wed May 11 04:01:14 2016 | 
Maksat | DRS4 Macro to save events | Dear Stefan,
 
 
I am trying to setup DRS inside 
radiation enclosure and would like to write | 
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Tue Apr 12 10:40:36 2022 | 
LynseyShun |   | Hello, I am Lynsey. now I set A3-A0 to 
1001 in ROI mode, but only OUT0 has output, 
and the other seven channels(OUT1-OUT7) do | 
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Thu Jun 16 05:31:25 2022 | 
LynseyShun |   | Thank you very much for your help!
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Fri Jun 24 09:57:36 2022 | 
LynseyShun | Spikes/noise sensitive to clock settings? | Hello, I now have periodic spikes in CH0 
and CH1 output. How can I eliminate 
these spikes? I'm sorry I didn't | 
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Thu Dec 23 03:42:26 2021 | 
Lynsey | DRS4 request assistance | Dear Sir or Madam,
 
 
      Good morning,I 
am using drs4 chip, and the measured fDTAP | 
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Fri Dec 24 03:13:32 2021 | 
Lynsey | Trouble getting PLL to lock | I also design the circuit myself. Our problem 
is the same. Can we communicate?
 
 
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Tue May 13 19:34:58 2014 | 
Luka Pavelic | drsosc binary to cern ROOT file conversion | Hi,
 
 
Does anybody have program for conversion | 
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Tue May 13 22:03:47 2014 | 
Luka Pavelic | drsosc binary to cern ROOT file conversion | Thank you for your fast and very helpful 
replay.
 
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Wed Feb 20 08:03:04 2019 | 
Lev Pavlov | meg? | Hey. Strange problem. Why does the compiler 
refer there at all? Library installed drsosc 
works | 
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Wed Feb 20 12:13:44 2019 | 
Lev Pavlov | meg? | Great, drs_exam compiles without problems. 
Now when you run the compiled file drs_exam 
writes board not found, but drsosc and drscl | 
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Thu Feb 21 09:51:24 2019 | 
Lev Pavlov | no board found | Hey. Yes, the program is running as administrator. 
By the way, this is win10. Your drs_exam 
works fine. My drs_exam compiled wrote no | 
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Mon Feb 25 08:40:44 2019 | 
Lev Pavlov | no board found |  
 
 
Hello. When compiling drs_exam, 
do you need to use a "static "version | 
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Fri Apr 12 09:39:30 2019 | 
Lev Pavlov | multi-board | 
 
 
Good afternoon, I use 5 boards in 
multi-mode, everything is connected according 
to the instructions. Can I measure the phase | 
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Fri Apr 12 09:59:15 2019 | 
Lev Pavlov | multi-board |  
 
 
I understand this, thanks. But 
my Chief does not understand this, he wants | 
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Fri Jun 16 17:34:20 2017 | 
Laura Gonella | Driver installation on Windows 10 | Hello,
 
 
I am trying to get a DRS4 board 
to run on Windows 10. I am having problems | 
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Wed Jan  6 15:51:58 2016 | 
Larry Byars | Use of Channel Cascading in drs_exam.cpp | Hello Stefan,
 
 
Here in Rockford, TN we just got 
a new DRS4 evaluation board (Serail # 2612, | 
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Tue Jan 12 15:42:31 2016 | 
Larry Byars | Use of Channel Cascading in drs_exam.cpp | An update. I have been successful in making 
modifications to drs_exam.cpp so that I can 
get 2048 samples per channel.. The main changes | 
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Thu Apr 21 22:16:43 2016 | 
Kyle Weinfurther | Negative fCellDT values from GetTimeCalibration() | Hello Stefan,
 
 
I am using four DRS4 v5 eval boards 
to digitize 16 channels of data. I have recently | 
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Fri Nov 18 05:52:45 2016 | 
Kurtis Nishimura | Channel offsets in GetTime() | Hello,
 
 
I have a question about the GetTime() 
method in DRS.cpp.  I understand how | 
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Tue Sep 27 10:17:58 2022 | 
Kunal Shinde | Required Firmware for DRS4 Evaluation Board Version 2.0 | Hi, I am working on an old DRS4 board Version 
"2.0" with firmware revision "13191", 
I was unable to find this specific firmware | 
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Tue Sep 27 10:52:41 2022 | 
Kunal Shinde | Required Firmware for DRS4 Evaluation Board Version 2.0 | I checked the link you provided but it 
seems that the link doesnt exist please send 
me valid one. | 
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Fri Apr 15 12:58:46 2016 | 
Konstantin Gusev | DRS4 purchase information |     Hi,
 
 
 I can't contact with 
Anita Van Loon about DSR4 chip's price | 
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Thu May 21 07:18:48 2020 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | DRS4 Evaluation board control tool 'drscl' with macro file | Dear experts,
 
 
 
 
 
I would like to use DRS4 evaluation | 
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Thu May 21 07:38:05 2020 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | Type check at DOFrame.h in official software | Hi,
 
 
 
 
 
I've failured to compile official | 
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Mon May 25 03:36:12 2020 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | DRS4 Evaluation board control tool 'drscl' with macro file | Thank you very much. That is what I wanted.
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Thu Oct 14 15:19:00 2021 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | livetime (or deadtime) of DRS4 evaluation board | Dear experts,
 
 
 
 
 
I would like to use the DRS4 evaluation | 
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Thu Oct 14 18:03:52 2021 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | livetime (or deadtime) of DRS4 evaluation board | Thank you very much for your response.
 
Excuse me for my very stupid confirmation.
 
If I take N events finally and the | 
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Fri Oct 15 06:15:53 2021 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | livetime (or deadtime) of DRS4 evaluation board | Thank you very much.
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Tue Mar  1 19:03:37 2022 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | Scaler issue to evaluate live time  | Hi. I'm trying to evaluate livetime 
of the evaluation board with the hardware 
scaler. I'm facing a strange issue. | 
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Fri Mar  4 03:55:33 2022 | 
Keita Mizukoshi | Scaler issue to evaluate live time  | Thank you very much for your explanation.
 
 
 
 
 
I would like to show you a pulse | 
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Thu Mar 27 15:53:10 2025 | 
Justin Tabbett | Noisy counts with adapted drs_exam.cpp | Greetings, 
 
 
I have adapted the drs_exam.cpp 
to allow for a user input number of channels | 
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Sun Apr  5 22:16:48 2015 | 
Julien Wulf | DRS4 Evaluation Board  Baseline/Voltage Calibration  | Hi,
 
 
I`m trying to calibrate my DRS4 
evoluation board to an input range of 0-1V | 
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Wed Jun 13 13:23:17 2018 | 
Julian Kemp | Maximum analog input voltage | Dear all,
 
 
I have been wondering what the 
maximum analog input voltage for the DRS4 | 
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Wed Jun 13 16:34:28 2018 | 
Julian Kemp | Maximum analog input voltage | Thank you! That solves my problem.
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Fri Oct 13 03:39:01 2017 | 
Jonathan Wapman | Raspberry Pi Connection Failure | I am currently attempting to use a raspberry 
pi to connect to the DRS 4 board. I whenever 
I try to use the DRS Command Line TOol, Revision | 
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Thu May  8 23:23:19 2025 | 
Jonathan Bradshaw | Clarification of full channel readout | Hi all
 
 
We're working on a new product 
using the DRS4 IC, and want to do a full | 
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Thu May  8 23:41:03 2025 | 
Jonathan Bradshaw | Handling of Write Shift Register and Write Config Register | Hi all
 
 
We're building a product which 
will use two different operating modes; firstly | 
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Tue May 13 04:10:30 2025 | 
Jonathan Bradshaw | Handling of Write Shift Register and Write Config Register | Hi Stefan
 
 
Just so I'm 100% clear; is 
there no reliable way to perform | 
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Thu May 15 00:01:20 2025 | 
Jonathan Bradshaw | Handling of Write Shift Register and Write Config Register | All right, thank you for the clarification.
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Mon Aug 18 06:52:51 2025 | 
Jonathan Bradshaw | Unexpected behaviour following RSRLOAD | Hello
 
 
I'm working to bring up a new 
capture board using a DRS4 and I'm having | 
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Tue Aug 19 02:40:58 2025 | 
Jonathan Bradshaw | Unexpected behaviour following RSRLOAD | Some images
 
 
Notes:
 
 
 
	top of the puicture shows | 
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Tue Aug 19 23:10:30 2025 | 
Jonathan Bradshaw | Unexpected behaviour following RSRLOAD | Turns out it was a damaged DRS4 IC.
 
 
I ported the drs4_eval5_app code 
onto our board and observed much the same | 
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Wed Oct 25 19:44:25 2023 | 
John Westmoreland | WaveDREAM Design | Hello All,
 
 
Are there any design resources 
available for the WaveDREAM PCBA's? | 
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Wed Oct 25 19:52:33 2023 | 
John Westmoreland | WaveDREAM Design | Stefan,
 
 
Oh, didn't realize that.
 
 
Thanks! | 
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Wed Oct 23 17:56:26 2019 | 
John Jendzurski | Computing corrected time from binary data...what is t_0,0? | In the equations for computing the corrected 
time for channels other than channel 1, does 
anyone know what the term t0,0 refers | 
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Fri Oct 16 09:51:03 2009 | 
Jinhong Wang | DSR4 Full Readout Mode | Hello Mr. Stefan Ritt
 
          
In DSR4 DATASHEET Rev.0.8 Page13, I noticed | 
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Mon Oct 19 09:06:43 2009 | 
Jinhong Wang | BIAS Pin of DRS4 | Dear Mr. Stefan Ritt.
 
         
Thank u for your timely response on "DSR4 | 
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Mon Oct 19 11:26:29 2009 | 
Jinhong Wang | output common mode voltage of DRS4 | Hello Mr. 
Stifan.Ritt
 
       In 
the DSR4 datasheet, it is mentioned that | 
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Fri Oct 30 03:31:54 2009 | 
Jinhong Wang | outline dimension of DRS4 |   | 
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Mon Dec 14 10:14:16 2009 | 
Jinhong Wang | Trigger of DRS4 | Dear Mr. S. Ritt
 
     The 
following is my confusion about the | 
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Mon Dec 21 10:17:05 2009 | 
Jinhong Wang | Trigger of DRS4 | 
 
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Tue Dec 22 01:30:55 2009 | 
Jinhong Wang | Trigger of DRS4 | 
 
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Wed May 12 11:47:39 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | DRS4 chip model | 
 
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Fri Jun 18 11:31:20 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sat Jun 19 10:09:18 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jun 22 10:50:19 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | Reset of DRS4 |  Hi Stefan, 
 
      I found 
DRS draw a lot of current when applied Reset | 
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Tue Jun 22 11:29:26 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | Reset of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jun 22 11:37:42 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | Reset of DRS4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jul 19 12:07:04 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | Fixed Patter Timing Jitter |  Hi Stefan, can you give some suggestions 
on determination of fixed pattern timing 
jitter of DRS4?  Thanks~ | 
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Wed Jul 21 10:46:32 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang |  ENOB of DRS |  Hi, Stefan, I see in your ppt "Design 
and performance of 6 GSPS waveform digitizing 
chip DRS4" , you define DRS4 ENOB as | 
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Tue Oct 12 03:53:37 2010 | 
Jinhong Wang | Reference design for DRS4 active input buffer | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jul  4 05:06:00 2011 | 
Jinhong Wang | Fixed Patter Timing Jitter | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jul 12 09:49:08 2011 | 
Jinhong Wang | Fixed Patter Timing Jitter | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Dec 27 00:12:12 2012 | 
Jinhong Wang | variation of sampling capacitors | Hi Stefan,
 
A quick question, what is the typical 
variation of the sampling capacitors in DRS4? | 
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Thu Dec 27 18:15:14 2012 | 
Jinhong Wang | variation of sampling capacitors | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Feb  1 17:43:48 2013 | 
Jinhong Wang | variation of sampling capacitors | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Tue Jul 19 02:35:04 2022 | 
Jingyu Zhang | Increase event rate, use ROI mode, and install sw from source in Mac | Dear 
experts, 
 
 
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Tue Mar 28 21:53:12 2017 | 
Jim Freeman | drscl doesn't find eval board but drsosc does (Windows 7) | I cannot find the EVAL board using drscl 
version 5.06 while the drsosc works fine. 
I tried 2 different eval boards and 2 different | 
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Tue Mar 26 01:17:59 2013 | 
Jill Russek | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp |  
 
All I'm trying to do is cascade one 
input signal, though all available channels, | 
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Fri Apr  5 02:21:33 2013 | 
Jill Russek | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Apr 10 22:41:21 2013 | 
Jill Russek | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Apr 11 23:32:57 2013 | 
Jill Russek | cascading -- DRS4 Osci.cpp & DRS.cpp | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Sep  6 14:42:23 2021 | 
Jiaolong | how to acquire the stop channel with 2x4096 cascading  | Hi Steffan,
 
 
    I have a question 
about how to acquire the stop channel:  | 
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Fri Nov  5 01:10:25 2021 | 
Jiaolong | how to acquire the stop channel with 2x4096 cascading  |   
 
 
	 
		 
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Fri Nov  5 01:12:10 2021 | 
Jiaolong | how to acquire the stop channel with 2x4096 cascading  | Thanks for your advice. The problem has 
been solved by setting the srin again while reading 
out from srout. | 
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Mon Oct 25 18:48:04 2021 | 
Javier Caravaca | Trigger multiple boards independently | Hello,
 
 
I recently acquired 4 DRS4 boards 
and I wanted to ask if it was possible to | 
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Tue Oct 26 23:18:32 2021 | 
Javier Caravaca | Trigger multiple boards independently | Thank you Stefan. Actually I noticed that the 
source code of drs_exam was available after 
I started this thread, and that was the solution | 
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Fri Jun  9 04:11:40 2023 | 
Javier Caravaca | Different sampling rates in multi-board configuration | Hello,
 
 
Is it possible to have different sampling 
rates in multi-board configuration? I tried | 
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Tue Nov 16 01:27:51 2021 | 
Jacquelynne Vaughan | V3 board, only one channel works, all components at each channel input working | Hi everyone,
 
 
I'm still looking through the 
forum for an answer to this question, but | 
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Thu Sep 29 17:26:13 2016 | 
Jacob Hwang | Output Timing Drifting | Hello,
 
 
I have designed four DRS4 chips 
(36 channels) on my board running at 1GHz | 
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Tue Jan 12 17:57:03 2016 | 
Jack Bargemann | Compiling DRS-exam | I am trying to compile drs-exam, but am 
getting an error message I do not understand:
 
 
 
1>musbstd.obj | 
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Wed Jun 20 10:40:21 2012 | 
Ivan Petrov | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Jun 20 14:36:01 2012 | 
Ivan Petrov | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Jul  9 14:14:48 2012 | 
Ivan Petrov | Problem compiling drs_exam.cpp on windows | Hello again. I have not got evaluation 
board yet, but already faced some difficulties:) 
I'm trying to compile drs_exam.cpp on Windows | 
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Wed Jul 11 10:04:51 2012 | 
Ivan Petrov | Problem compiling drs_exam.cpp on windows | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Thu Jul 18 01:03:44 2019 | 
Ismael Garcia | Trace Impedance | 
 
 
Hi Steffan,
 
 
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Fri Jul 19 01:37:09 2019 | 
Ismael Garcia | Trace Impedance | When you're refering to laying a 50 
Ohm trace, you're referring to the SMA 
input and not the interface between the output | 
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Tue May 19 14:14:45 2015 | 
Ilja Bekman | DRS4 firmware UCF constraints  | Hello, I'm using two DRS4 rev.5 boards for 
8ch readout and triggering.
 
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Wed Oct  7 13:06:34 2015 | 
Ilja Bekman | Voltage Calibration with signal on the input |   | 
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Sun May  2 18:36:14 2010 | 
Ignacio Diιguez Estremera | DRS4 chip model | Hi all,
 
i'm an electronics engineering student 
at UCM (Madrid) working on my master's thesis | 
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Mon May  3 17:06:02 2010 | 
Ignacio Diιguez Estremera | DRS4 chip model | 
 
 
    
 
        
 
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Mon May  3 23:21:55 2010 | 
Ignacio Diιguez Estremera | DRS4 chip model | 
 
 
    
 
        
 
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Tue May  4 16:23:16 2010 | 
Ignacio Diιguez Estremera | DRS4 chip model | 
 
 
    
 
        
 
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Wed May  5 22:30:50 2010 | 
Ignacio Diιguez Estremera | Random noise spec in datasheet | Hi,
 
According to DRS4's datasheet, the 
random noise is 0.35mVrms. Is this the input | 
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Fri Nov  3 12:11:14 2017 | 
Hεkan Wennlφf | Triggering using AND | Hi!
 
 
I'm using the DRSOsc program, 
and I have a question that I need a bit clarified; | 
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Tue May  1 02:00:40 2018 | 
Hyunseong Kim | DRS4 using drs_exam.cpp to save as binary files | Hi, 
 
 
I would like to save the waveform 
in a .dat binary file using drs_exam.cpp. | 
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Fri Jul  5 12:46:45 2013 | 
Hermann-Josef Mathes | Missing methods in drs-4.0.1.tar.gz | Hi,
 
while trying to create python bindings 
for the DRS stuff using SWIG 2.0.4, two undefined | 
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Wed Aug  7 15:05:59 2013 | 
Hermann-Josef Mathes | Repeated time calibration | Hi,
 
 
 
is there any (obvious) reason why | 
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Wed Aug  7 15:20:33 2013 | 
Hermann-Josef Mathes | Repeated time calibration | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Mar  5 21:54:13 2014 | 
Hermann-Josef Mathes | Software drs-5.0.0 fails to compile (drsosc) | Hi,
 
the latest software drs-5.0.0.tar.gz 
fails to compile on my freshly installed | 
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Mon Mar 16 16:07:39 2015 | 
Hermann-Josef Mathes | Running 2 instances of a DRS DAQ program | Hi,
 
 
we want to run two instances of 
our little DRS DAQ program but obviously | 
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Mon Apr  5 17:50:39 2010 | 
Heejong Kim | version 1.2 evaluation board with firmware 13279? | 
 
Hi, Stefan,
 
 
I found that my collaborator 
bought 2 older version of evaluation board 
before.
 
They are the version 1.2 in plastics | 
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Mon Apr  5 17:57:41 2010 | 
Heejong Kim | Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Thu Jan 19 23:26:26 2012 | 
Heejong Kim | drs_exam.cpp for evaluation board version 4 | Hello,
 
I'm using DRS4 evaluation board version4 
in Linux (Scientific Linux 5). | 
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Fri Jan 20 23:50:39 2012 | 
Heejong Kim | drs_exam.cpp for evaluation board version 4 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sun Jan 31 23:52:15 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Failure In Flashing Xilinx PROM | Hi Stefan,
 
    I have an old-version 
DRS4 evaluation board which doesn't have | 
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Sat Feb 20 01:56:05 2010 | 
Hao Huan | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | Hi Stefan,
 
    in the latest 
DRS4 datasheet I only saw your data of the | 
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Sun Feb 21 00:46:01 2010 | 
Hao Huan | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Sun Feb 21 20:27:46 2010 | 
Hao Huan | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Mon Feb 22 17:23:59 2010 | 
Hao Huan | PLLLCK signal of DRS4 | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Wed Mar  3 17:36:31 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Initialization of the Domino Circuit | Hi Stefan,
 
    I read in the 
datasheet that every time after power up | 
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Thu Mar  4 19:14:10 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Readout of DRS Data | Hi Stefan,
 
    thanks to your 
help I can now successfully keep the Domino | 
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Fri Mar  5 23:29:04 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Readout of DRS Data | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Tue Mar  9 23:28:45 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Serial Interface Frequency of the DRS Chip | Hi Stefan,
 
    in the DRS4 datasheet 
I read that the optimal frequency for SRCLK | 
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Thu Mar 11 21:37:32 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Input Bandwidth of the DRS Chip | Hi Stefan,
 
    I read in the 
DRS datasheet that the input bandwidth if | 
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Thu Mar 18 21:38:10 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Serial Interface Frequency of the DRS Chip | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Sun Mar 21 02:03:44 2010 | 
Hao Huan | PLL Loop Filter Configuration | Hi Stefan,
 
    in the datasheet 
it says at 6GSPS the typical loop filter | 
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Tue Mar 30 22:57:34 2010 | 
Hao Huan | ROFS Configuration | Hi Stefan,
 
    according to the 
DRS4 datasheet, if we want an input range | 
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Fri Apr  9 17:14:45 2010 | 
Hao Huan | Baseline Variation In Data | Hi Stefan,
 
    when I sample 
a constant input with the DRS 4 chip, there | 
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Thu May 13 19:14:27 2010 | 
Hao Huan | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | Hi Stefan,
 
    on our board some 
DRS chips draw a lot of current through DVDD | 
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Tue May 18 01:47:59 2010 | 
Hao Huan | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Wed May 19 02:24:12 2010 | 
Hao Huan | DVDD Problem of DRS 4 | 
 
 
 
   
 
        
 
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Wed May 26 19:18:09 2010 | 
Hao Huan | High Frequency Input for DRS | Hi Stefan,
 
    I read in the 
DRS datasheet that the bandwidth for the | 
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Sun Oct 23 23:32:28 2011 | 
Hao Huan | Phase Shift for ADC Readout | Dear Dr. Ritt,
 
    In the DRS 4 datasheet 
it is recommended to sample the analog output | 
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Wed Dec 14 00:44:37 2011 | 
Hao Huan | Synchronization Delay in the Firmware for 8051 Controller | Hi Stefan,
 
    I have a question 
regarding the DRS 4 evaluation board firmware | 
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Sat Feb  2 00:13:12 2019 | 
Hans Steiger | Saving Rate (only 15Acq/s) | Dear All,
 
 
 
 
 
when I use my Evaluation Board | 
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Mon Feb  4 16:42:08 2019 | 
Hans Steiger | Different Distances between the sampling points | Dear All,
 
 
with the older software for my 
V5 Board i did not have the problem, that | 
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Mon Feb  4 17:36:49 2019 | 
Hans Steiger | Different Distances between the sampling points | Sorry.... but is there a solution or a 
Root Macro, that reads the waveforms into 
a Root-Tree? I simply can not work anymore | 
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Sat Aug 29 22:00:30 2020 | 
Hans Steiger | Dynamic Range Evaluation Board and Software | Dear Evaluation Board Team,
 
 
 
 
 
currently I am facing the problem | 
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Mon Aug 31 16:44:12 2020 | 
Hans Steiger | Channel Cascading | Dear All,
 
 
I have a board with Channel Cascading 
Option. I have the problem, that it seems | 
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Mon Sep 15 16:24:41 2014 | 
Hannes Wachter | Timing Calibration Fail | Hi,
 
has anyone experienced a shutdown 
of the DRSosc.exe or DRScl.exe when executing | 
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Wed Sep  7 17:28:25 2011 | 
Hannes  Friederich | DRS4 and AD9222 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov 21 08:34:52 2012 | 
Gyuhee Kim | Question for using Multi board |  Hi.
 
 
 
I have 2 DRS4 evaluation V4 boards, | 
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Wed Nov 21 08:48:00 2012 | 
Gyuhee Kim | Question for using Multi board | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Dec  3 08:32:28 2012 | 
Gyuhee Kim | Another question about using multi boards. |  Hi.
 
 
 
I asked about using multi boards | 
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Mon Dec  3 11:40:35 2012 | 
Gyuhee Kim | Another question about using multi boards. | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Sep  7 16:45:17 2011 | 
Guillaume Blanchard | DRS4 and AD9222 | 
 
 
Normal
 
0
 
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false
 
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Fri Sep  9 09:28:57 2011 | 
Guillaume Blanchard | DRS4 and AD9222 | Thank you for your 
answers, | 
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Mon Apr 23 10:38:51 2012 | 
Guillaume Blanchard | DRS4 Initialization | Hello,
 
I am writing a VHDL code to drive 
a DRS4 chip. | 
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Thu Jun 18 17:33:05 2015 | 
Gregor Kramberger | drs 5.03 and windows 8.1 | I have problems with driver installation 
on windows 8.1 (software version 5.03). 
I have sen that that has been an issue before | 
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Fri Jun 19 12:32:10 2015 | 
Gregor Kramberger | drs 5.03 and windows 8.1 |  
 
 
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Fri Jan 13 12:58:22 2017 | 
Gregor Kramberger | DRS software doesn't work under Windows XP SP3 | Hi all
 
 
I have a problem with running the 
DRSOSC under windows XP SP3. We have some | 
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Mon Apr 10 08:50:11 2017 | 
Giovanni Bruni | drs4 registers behaviour | Hej everyone!
 
I have some questions regarding what 
happens to some DRS registers in some scenarios: | 
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Mon Apr 10 13:41:41 2017 | 
Giovanni Bruni | drs4 registers behaviour | Hej Stefan! Thank you for your answer!
 
 
Just to be sure to have understood 
properly: | 
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Tue Apr 11 09:07:33 2017 | 
Giovanni Bruni | drs4 registers behaviour | Thank you Stefan for replying!
 
I have still the RESET issue in mind: 
how would you suggest to reset properly the | 
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Fri Nov 18 16:38:42 2016 | 
Gerard Montarou | LabView | Hello,
 
 
Did you start to write some VI 
to interface DRS4board with labview ? | 
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Sun Sep 23 02:22:46 2018 | 
Gerard Arino-Estrada | Trigger OUT pulse width variable from 100 us up to 100 ms | Hello Stefan,
 
 
I am using the DRS4 board connected 
to a Raspberry PI and through the drsosc | 
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Wed Sep 26 18:25:07 2018 | 
Gerard Arino-Estrada | Trigger OUT pulse width variable from 100 us up to 100 ms | Thank you very much for the answer, I 
really appreciate your help.
 
 
Thanks! | 
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Wed Sep 26 18:28:20 2018 | 
Gerard Arino-Estrada | Trigger OUT pulse width variable from 100 us up to 100 ms | Thank you very much for the answer, I really 
appreciate your help.
 
 
Thanks! | 
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Wed Feb 27 13:47:32 2013 | 
Georg Winner | Chip Test - Cell Error | When starting Chip Test in DRS Command 
Line Interface, I receive the following message:
 
Cell error on channel 1, cell | 
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Mon Mar 25 11:12:53 2013 | 
Georg Winner | Differences in Source Code | I have noticed some differences in the 
source code between Windows (4.0.0) and Linux 
(4.0.1) Version. | 
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Thu Apr  9 11:46:33 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair |  DRSBoard::SetTriggerSource | Hi
 
 
I have a question about the function 
SetTriggerSource in the class DRSBoard (DRS.h/DRS.cpp) | 
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Sat May 23 11:03:20 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | Issue with Trigger rates below ~100Hz | Hi
 
 
We are working with the DRS 4 V5 
version and we investigated an issue with | 
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Tue May 26 11:27:27 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | DRS4 firmware UCF constraints  | > > Hello, I'm using two DRS4 rev.5 boards 
for 8ch readout and triggering.
 
> > 
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Fri Jun  5 13:15:35 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | DRS4 firmware UCF constraints  | Hi Stefan,
 
No we only use one evaluation board. We use 
the evaluation board as a part of our beam | 
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Thu Jul  2 08:53:17 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | Issue with Trigger rates below ~100Hz | Hi,
 
 
We did a further investigation 
of this problem: | 
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Thu Jul  2 13:20:51 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | Creation of Object files | HI,
 
 
We are using the DRS4 Board in 
the EUDAQ framework [1]. We wrote a a Producer | 
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Mon Jul  6 11:30:56 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | Creation of Object files | Hi Stefan,
 
 
That's fine for me. I thought 
it might be interesting for others as well.. | 
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Tue Jul  7 09:29:21 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | Creation of Object files | Yes of course no problem.
 
 
You can download via github https://github.com/veloxid/DRS4-v5-shared and | 
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Fri Aug  7 20:32:15 2015 | 
Felix Bachmair | DRS4 | Hi
 
 
Did you copy the udev rule 41-drs.rules 
into /etc/udev/rules.d/ ? | 
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Sat Apr  2 11:21:10 2016 | 
Felix Bachmair | Question about timimng calibration | Hi,
 
 
I am trying to understand some 
details about the timing calibration. | 
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Thu Dec 13 12:03:29 2012 | 
Evgeni | DRS-4 trigger | How to configure DRS oscilloscope for the 
oscillations with an amplitude greater than 
the value of the exposed | 
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Thu Dec 13 19:49:47 2012 | 
Evgeni | DRS-4 trigger |  
 
 
    
 
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Fri Dec 14 10:07:14 2012 | 
Evgeni | DRS-4 trigger |  
 
 
    
 
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Fri Dec 14 10:07:54 2012 | 
Evgeni | DRS-4 trigger |  
 
 
    
 
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Mon May 22 18:27:56 2017 | 
Esperienza Giove | Invalid magic number 0000 | Hello everybody!
 
 
After some times i init my board, 
or if i stop the program during the acquisition, | 
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Thu May 25 20:17:41 2017 | 
Esperienza Giove | Invalid magic number 0000 | Hello, thanks for your answer. Unluckily 
if i try to reset in this way it keeps hanging
 
 
 
musb_write: requested | 
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Thu May 25 20:20:57 2017 | 
Esperienza Giove | Invalid magic number 0000 | Hello, thanks for your answer. Unluckily 
if i try to reset in this way it keeps hanging
 
 
 
musb_write: requested | 
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Tue May 30 20:45:30 2017 | 
Esperienza Giove | Setting input range | Hello,
 
 
is it possible to set a completely 
negative input range like -1 to 0 or -0.95 | 
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Tue May 30 21:22:10 2017 | 
Esperienza Giove | Setting input range | Thank you
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Thu Jul  6 15:10:48 2017 | 
Esperienza Giove | Trigger setting (AND AND) OR (AND AND) | Hello there,
 
 
is it possible to setup trigger 
in double AND configuration (a pair in and | 
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Tue May 21 12:39:00 2013 | 
Enrico Conti | mac osx 10.6 | Hi,
 
 
I would like to use the DRS4 with my macbook | 
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Tue May 21 17:45:05 2013 | 
Enrico Conti | mac osx 10.6 | > 
 
> Can it be that you have a old PowerPC MAC? 
I have no experience with that, but probably | 
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Tue May 21 17:48:45 2013 | 
Enrico Conti | mac osx 10.6 | > 
 
> it looks like 64bit vs 32bit problem, you 
have to compile all libraries for the same | 
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Tue May 21 18:30:11 2013 | 
Enrico Conti | mac osx 10.6 | > > > 
 
> > > it looks like 64bit vs 32bit problem, 
you have to compile all libraries for the | 
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Fri May 24 17:58:07 2013 | 
Enrico Conti | mac osx 10.6 | > > > 
 
> > > it looks like 64bit vs 32bit problem, 
you have to compile all libraries for the | 
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Sat May 25 12:45:46 2013 | 
Enrico Conti | mac osx 10.6 | > > I made some progress. Understood what 
was wrong in the make phase. You have only 
to add the option -arch i386 in the CFLAGS | 
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Tue Sep 22 17:45:26 2020 | 
Elmer Grundeman | External triggering | Dear all,
 
 
I had a question about timing jitter 
and external triggering. | 
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Wed Oct  7 11:17:52 2020 | 
Elmer Grundeman | External triggering | I will try that, thanks!
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Tue May 27 13:46:18 2014 | 
Dominik Neise | Spikes in DRS4 data on custom baord. | We see quite some spikes in our DRS4 sampled 
data in FACT.  We see different types 
of spikes: | 
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Fri Mar 11 19:50:18 2016 | 
Dominik Neise |   | Hello Stefan,
 
 
I just stumbled again over a phrase 
in the DRS4 datasheet I never really understood, | 
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Wed Jun  1 22:29:01 2016 | 
Dominik Neise | problems when stop cell >= 767 ?? | Hello Stefan,
 
 
some colleages told me a story, 
I was neither able to confirm nor find anything | 
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Mon Feb 29 12:58:17 2016 | 
Dmitry Philippov | baseline shift | Hello! My name is Dmitry. I am from SiPM 
Lab is NRNU MEPhI (Russia, Moscow). We bought 
DRS4 evaluation board V5 with firmware 21305. | 
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Thu Feb 28 10:47:14 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | clock and trigger outs | Hi,
 
I am considering using the DRS4 evaluation 
board as an ADC card for the wire chamber | 
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Mon Apr  8 18:11:02 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | binary to root |  Hi,
 
 
 
Does anyone has a program that converts | 
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Tue Jul  9 11:40:00 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | cannot save in binary format | Hi,
 
I would like to save the waveform 
in a binary format. When I click Save then | 
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Tue Jul  9 14:00:49 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | cannot save in binary format | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Nov  6 11:53:28 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | flickering screen for drsosc | Hi,
 
 
 
I have install drs software on ASUS | 
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Mon Nov 18 11:20:15 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | flickering screen for drsosc | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Nov 18 15:49:01 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | synchronisation of readouts of two boards for offline analysis |  Dear Stefan,
 
I am trying to synchronise the readout 
of two test boards, one is the DRS4 test | 
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Tue Nov 26 15:36:39 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | reducing sampling speed | Dear Stefan
 
Is there an easy way to reduce sampling 
speed below 0.7 GSPS? I would like to record | 
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Fri Dec 13 10:37:18 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | input protection in DRS4 evaluation board |  Dear Stefan
 
Last month I was using a DRS4 evaluation 
board to digitise the signal from the charged | 
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Mon Dec 16 11:09:25 2013 | 
Dmitry Hits | synchronisation of readouts of two boards for offline analysis | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Sep 12 11:52:21 2014 | 
Dmitry Hits | synchronizing two DRS4 evaluation boards readout with one computer |  Hi everyone,
 
Has anyone tried to synchronize 2 
(two) DRS4 evaluation boards readout by the | 
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Fri Sep 12 13:37:42 2014 | 
Dmitry Hits | synchronizing two DRS4 evaluation boards readout with one computer | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Sep 12 14:57:22 2014 | 
Dmitry Hits | compilation error for v5.0.2 |  Hi,
 
I am getting the following compilation 
error when trying to compile version 5.0.2 | 
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Fri Sep 12 16:38:24 2014 | 
Dmitry Hits | compilation error for v5.0.2 | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Mon Feb 29 13:33:06 2016 | 
Dmitry Hits | two DRS4 boards configuration with 2048 samples each | Dear Stefan,
 
 
I daisy-chained two boards (master 
sn#: 2514 - slave sn#: 2513) each with 2048 | 
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Mon May  2 14:31:28 2016 | 
Dmitry Hits | two DRS4 boards configuration with 2048 samples each | Hi Stefan
 
 
Any chance you have time to fix 
the software for multiboard configuration | 
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Wed Feb 16 14:06:45 2022 | 
Dmitry Hits | Sliders missing in drsosc | Hi everyone,
 
 
Did anyone have a "missing 
sliders problem" in GUI (see attachment)  | 
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Thu Nov 16 02:55:44 2017 | 
Diego Yankelevich | Averaging capabilities  | The Display window in the Oscilloscope 
software shows averaging capabilites but 
I have not been able to activate these. Is | 
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Tue Dec 12 00:25:50 2017 | 
Diego Yankelevich | External trigger using Raspberry Pi | Dear Steffan:
 
 
 
We have been able to use the 
DRS4 using a Raspberry Pi but we have not | 
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Thu Mar 14 03:43:49 2019 | 
Deepak Samuel | How to buy DRS evaluation kit | Dear Stefan,
 
 
I have emailed drs4@psi.ch a couple 
of times regarding the pricing of the evaluation | 
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Thu Nov  8 11:44:35 2018 | 
Davide Depaoli | Timing Issue | Hi,
 
 
We are using the DRS4 Evaluation Board as | 
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Thu Nov  8 12:02:34 2018 | 
Davide Depaoli | Timing Issue | Thanks a lot for the quick response.
 
We will do as you suggest.
 
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Mon Oct 14 09:32:33 2019 | 
Danyang | how to acquire the stop position with channel cascading | Hi Steffan,
 
 
       In DSR4 
DATASHEET Rev.0.9 Page13,  there is | 
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Mon Oct 14 11:45:06 2019 | 
Danyang | how to acquire the stop position with channel cascading | I tried the 
logic in my designed board.  The results 
are shown in the picture: Srout keeps low | 
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Mon Oct 14 13:44:26 2019 | 
Danyang | how to acquire the stop position with channel cascading | Yes, firstly I configured the chip 
with 4x2048 bins by setting the Write Shift 
Register to 01010101b, A3-A0 | 
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Tue Oct 15 08:14:17 2019 | 
Danyang | how to acquire the stop position with channel cascading | Thanks a lot. The problem is solved when 
A3-A0 is set 1101 and srclk keeps low.
 
 
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Sun Oct  9 10:43:35 2016 | 
Danny Petschke | time difference between 2 channels only ~30-35ps @ 5GSmples/s | (Board Type:9, DRS4)
 
 
Hello,
 
 
I´m trying to reach the timig | 
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Mon Oct 10 11:30:37 2016 | 
Danny Petschke | time difference between 2 channels only ~30-35ps @ 5GSmples/s | Hello Stefan,
 
 
Chn2 & Chn3 were used for delay-determination as 
you can see on the second picture. | 
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Tue Oct 11 09:04:33 2016 | 
Danny Petschke | time difference between 2 channels only ~30-35ps @ 5GSmples/s | Hello Stefan,
 
 
thanks for the paper. That makes 
sense. I thought about sth. like that but | 
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Sat Jan 28 14:11:58 2017 | 
Danny Petschke | AND trigger problems  |  Dear Stefan,
 
 
I have 2 identical pulses as a 
splittet signal with an amplitude of 300mV. | 
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Thu Mar 19 07:37:52 2015 | 
Daniel Stricker-Shaver | Running 2 instances of a DRS DAQ program | I don't know if it helps, but we measured 
the time resolution between two independendly 
running v3 boards using a single PC (latest | 
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Tue Apr 21 13:03:38 2015 | 
Daniel Stricker-Shaver | DRS4 Evaluation Board  Baseline/Voltage Calibration  | I also use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and for my 
V3 borad I have to use drsosc 4.x or ealier 
to perform the calibration. | 
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Sat Apr 23 12:33:17 2016 | 
Daniel Stricker-Shaver | Negative fCellDT values from GetTimeCalibration() | Hi Kyle,
 
 
If I remember right the negative 
sampling width happens only for 498 and at | 
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Mon Mar 21 10:38:27 2016 | 
Daniel Dribin | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | Dear Stefan Ritt,
 
 
I am using a DRS4 v5 to do timing 
measurements of Positron lifetime. I use | 
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Mon Apr  4 11:41:26 2016 | 
Daniel Dribin | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | Dear Stefan Ritt,
 
 
Yes I use Windows 7, If the DRS 
Oscilloscope program stays | 
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Wed Apr  6 09:43:52 2016 | 
Daniel Dribin | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | At hight rates I worked with files of up 
to 20 GB so I don't think this is the 
problem. | 
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Wed Apr  6 09:46:10 2016 | 
Daniel Dribin | DRS Oscilloscope freezing after a long run  | 
 
	
 
		
 
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Wed May 13 00:52:51 2015 | 
Cosmin Deaconu | Getting Trigger Source | I'd like to be able to know which channel 
(0,1,2,3 or external) was responsible for 
the trigger.  DRSBoard::GetTriggerSource() | 
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Wed May 13 01:07:36 2015 | 
Cosmin Deaconu | DRS4 Evaluation Board + Powered USB Hub | I am trying to use 4 evaluation boards 
with a powered USB hub (since eventually, 
I will have to do this on a laptop).  | 
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Fri Nov  4 17:41:03 2016 | 
Christian Farina | Missing Header | Hello everybody,
 
 
I am completely new to this, so 
please bear with me. | 
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Wed Nov  9 17:19:48 2016 | 
Christian Farina | Missing Header | Thank you Stefan, that was just what I 
needed.
 
 
Also, I have another question, | 
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Thu Nov 10 20:54:45 2016 | 
Christian Farina | Missing Header | Hi Stefan,
 
 
I have already read the paper. 
I was just unsure where the calibration code | 
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Thu Apr 13 16:42:21 2017 | 
Christian Farina | Stand-alone Time Calibration for PSI Board | Hello everybody,
 
 
I was trying to create a stand-alone 
program that would perform a time calibration | 
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Thu Apr 13 16:54:32 2017 | 
Christian Farina | Stand-alone Time Calibration for PSI Board | Hi Stefan,
 
 
Thank you for your reply. I have 
read the paper already. I looked through | 
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Thu Apr 13 17:10:58 2017 | 
Christian Farina | Stand-alone Time Calibration for PSI Board | Thank you for your help Stefan. I will 
try to get the TC part isolated.
 
 
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Wed Mar  9 09:57:20 2016 | 
Christian D | LabView | Hi,
 
 
I would like to use the DRS4 board 
with LabView for fast readout. | 
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Sun Oct 19 14:36:54 2014 | 
Chris Tully | coverting the xml file format into binary |  Hi,
 
    Is there a straightforward 
way to convert the xml file format into the | 
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Wed Nov 25 02:52:35 2015 | 
Chris Thompson | PC software beyond Windows 7 | I am new to this forum. I have ordered 
a DRS4 evaluation board for doing experiments 
with very fast PET detectors. It has not | 
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Wed Nov 25 17:36:25 2015 | 
Chris Thompson | PC software beyond Windows 7 | I tried this suggestion of changing the 
startup settings to ingore driver license 
signing (as suggested in the post # 434), | 
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Sat Dec  5 02:39:20 2015 | 
Chris Thompson | PC software beyond Windows 7 | I tried restarting Windows 10 in a way 
the allowed me to use "advanced startup 
options" Option 7 suggested it was to | 
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Sat Dec  5 03:21:21 2015 | 
Chris Thompson | PC software beyond Windows 7 | On a hunch, I tried downloading V 5.0.3 
instead. This works, and I now have the oscilloscope 
mode displaying signals! (just to make sure, | 
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Thu Jan 14 21:49:37 2016 | 
Chris Thompson | Triggering of DRS4 in the fastest sampling mode | I am attempting to use the DRS4 to measure 
the timing resolution of a pair of SensL 
silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). In order | 
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Thu Mar 31 20:48:00 2016 | 
Chris Thompson | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | I needed a fast pulse inverter in order 
to feed signals from the recent SensL SiPMs 
into a conventional CFD which only accepted | 
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Fri Apr  1 22:09:07 2016 | 
Chris Thompson | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | The coilcraft part number is: JA4220-ALB. 
Iordered two of them and they were sent as 
free samples. You might want to buy some | 
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Sun Apr  3 22:10:19 2016 | 
Chris Thompson | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | No there are no other components. I put 
a photo of the inverter with its cables SMA 
and one end, BNC at the other. You can see | 
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Fri Jun 27 11:23:19 2014 | 
ChengMing Du | drsosc binary to cern ROOT file conversion | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed May 13 09:31:18 2015 | 
Chenfei Yang | transparent-mode voltage | Hello Mr. Stefan Ritt
 
 
  For DRS4 differential inputs 
ranges form 500mV to 1100mV, with ROFS set | 
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Wed May 13 09:55:09 2015 | 
Chenfei Yang | transparent-mode voltage | Here's the problem. My external ADC 
has 2Vpp differtial input voltage range. 
And the common-mode voltage of the inputs | 
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Wed May 13 10:27:43 2015 | 
Chenfei Yang | transparent-mode voltage | I'm using an AD9252, 0.9V common mode 
voltage is suggested and I already use 8 
un-switchable level shifters. Just as you | 
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Wed May 13 12:52:22 2015 | 
Chenfei Yang | transparent-mode voltage | Yes. I use exactly the same scheme as you 
mentioned. I'll try your solution.
 
 
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Wed May 13 16:13:07 2015 | 
Chenfei Yang | transparent-mode voltage | If using a ROFS of 0.9V, the input would 
not between 1.05V~2.05V better non-linearity 
area. Is that appropriate? | 
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Mon Jul 20 09:25:38 2015 | 
Chenfei Yang | Measure the time between different samples | Hi,
 
  I have a question using a data acquisition 
card base on DRS4 chip. How can I measure | 
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Tue Apr 15 18:35:41 2014 | 
Carlo Stella | drs_exam project fail to compile | Hi,
 
when I try to compile drs_exam project 
my computer give me this output: | 
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Thu Apr 24 23:03:25 2014 | 
Carlo Stella | drs_exam project fail to compile | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sat Jul 13 01:00:15 2019 | 
Brendan Posehn | Evaluation Board Test Functionality | Hello, 
 
 
I have recently obtained a DRS4 
Evaluation Board (V5), but I am unable to | 
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Mon Jul 15 19:34:25 2019 | 
Brendan Posehn | Evaluation Board Test Functionality | Hello Stefan, 
 
 
Thanks for the quick reply. The 
issue was a faulty SMA connector, should | 
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Thu Apr 14 18:23:53 2011 | 
Bob Hirosky | Fixes to DOScreen.cpp for recent built on linux | Hello,
 
 
I was just building version 3.1.0 and ran | 
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Thu Apr 11 22:41:13 2013 | 
Bill Ashmanskas | code/details for optimal DRS4 timing calibration? | Hi Stefan,
 
Is either some example code or a 
detailed written description available for | 
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Mon Aug 19 23:01:22 2019 | 
Bill Ashmanskas | should one deassert DENABLE while writing the write-shift register? | Hi Stefan,
 
 
We have for some time now been 
using custom firmware on a custom board to | 
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Tue Aug 20 16:05:21 2019 | 
Bill Ashmanskas | should one deassert DENABLE while writing the write-shift register? | Aha -- many thanks.  I think what 
tripped up my test logic is that the "done" 
state in drs4_eval5_app.vhd that executes | 
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Mon Apr 22 15:33:28 2013 | 
Benjamin LeGeyt | effect of jitter/alignment between SRCLK and ADC clock | Hello!
 
let me apologize in advance if this 
has already been covered somewhere and I | 
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Fri May 16 14:04:47 2014 | 
Benjamin LeGeyt | simultaneous writing and reading with region of interest mode? | Hello!
 
We're developing electronics based 
on the DRS4 to read out a breast PET scanner | 
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Sat Oct 15 04:45:25 2011 | 
Aurelien Bouvier | DRS4 eval board: readout rate | Hi,
 
Our setup uses a DRS4 evaluation 
board (version 2.0). | 
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Fri Sep 13 15:27:41 2019 | 
Arseny Rybnikov | Scaler / How to modify the firmware to change the scaler integration time | Hello,
 
 
We want to use the inner DRS4 counter(scaler) 
within more than the 100ms integration | 
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Wed Oct 14 23:53:05 2009 | 
Armin Kolb | DRS_exam using USB Evaluation Board with OS X | For the users using a Macintosh,
 
after several hours the Evaluation 
Board is working  on my Macintosh (intel). | 
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Mon Sep 23 09:22:52 2013 | 
Andrzej Rychter | Sampling Frequency: DRS4 eval board | Is it possible to set sampling frequency 
at 100 MHz in DRS4 eval board? Trying to 
set 0.1GHz in Osci program results in around | 
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Mon Sep 23 09:51:48 2013 | 
Andrzej Rychter | Sampling Frequency: DRS4 eval board | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Fri Feb 13 10:12:16 2015 | 
Andrzej Grzeszczuk | drs4 and root | Hello,
 
 
I compiled base file for drs system  
(DRS.cpp) to root framework (root.cern.ch) | 
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Fri Sep 16 22:06:07 2011 | 
Andriy Zatserklyaniy | compilation error for version 4.0.0 on linux | Hi Stefan,
 
When I compiled DRS4 software version 
4.0.0 on Linux (Debian Squeeze) I got this | 
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Tue Nov 19 04:33:22 2013 | 
Andriy Zatserklyaniy | DRSOsc at Mac OS X Mavericks |  I installed Mac OS package on macbook 
(late 2013). DRSOsc starts to write file 
but freezes; need to be restarted to restore | 
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Tue Nov 19 21:49:37 2013 | 
Andriy Zatserklyaniy | DRSOsc at Mac OS X Mavericks | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Sat Jun 23 00:29:52 2012 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | triger for measuring time between pulses in channels | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed May  8 06:07:52 2013 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | DRS4 v2.0 Eval Board running on higher versions of DRS Oscilloscope program | Hi,
 
I have an old v2.0 board that I just 
upgraded firmware on using v4.0.0 download | 
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Wed May  8 19:50:01 2013 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | DRS4 installation on Windows 8 issues | I'm also 
having trouble installing drivers and running 
DRSOsc program on another computer running | 
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Thu Jul 25 01:31:29 2013 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | Evaluation Board Behavior | 
 
 
    
 
 
       
 
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Wed Aug 28 13:07:51 2013 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | Some bug fixes and questions |   For http://www.psi.ch/drs/DocumentationEN/manual_rev20.pdf:
 
0 0x02 15..8 board_type 5 for DRS4 
USB Evaluation Board 1.1 ---> should instead | 
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Thu Sep  5 10:01:00 2013 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | Some bug fixes and questions | #11 0x080589de in DRSBoard::GetWave (this=0xb7456008, 
chipIndex=0, channel=0 '\000', waveform=0x40f24000, 
responseCalib=true, triggerCell=207, wsr=0, | 
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Mon Sep  9 06:49:36 2013 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | Some bug fixes and questions | The DRSCallback *pcb is 
missing an if statement in the code when 
DRS Oscilloscope software isn't used when | 
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Wed Sep 11 02:41:28 2013 | 
Andrey Kuznetsov | USB connection stops | Hi,
 
 
although I don't have a chance to test your | 
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Thu Jun 20 01:36:48 2019 | 
Andrew Peck | Evaluation firmware wait_vdd state | Dear Stefan,
 
 
I am working with others at UCLA 
on a custom made board built around the DRS4. | 
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Mon Jun 24 23:07:35 2019 | 
Andrew Peck | Evaluation firmware wait_vdd state | Dear Stefan, 
 
 
Thanks so much for clarifying this. 
We made wait_vdd a parameter controlled by | 
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Wed Oct 26 21:15:35 2016 | 
Alexey Lubinets | Problems with DRS command line | Hello, everybody
 
 
I have installed the software for the DRS4 | 
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Thu Nov 24 00:40:38 2016 | 
Alexey Lubinets | PLL did not lock | Hello, everybody!
 
 
I installed DRSosc and DRScl. Command 
line works normally (at least, it can "see" | 
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Mon Nov 28 16:48:15 2016 | 
Alexey Lubinets | PLL did not lock | The serial number is 2586. This board is 
about two years old, and it might be in use 
(but I do not know exactly). | 
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Thu Dec 17 09:29:43 2020 | 
Alex Myczko | drs sources on github? | Are there plans to add the drs software to 
github? (asking because I have users @ethz.ch 
that want to use it on debian,
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Tue Feb 15 11:59:22 2022 | 
Alex Myczko | apt install drs4eb | drs4b is now officially on these distributions:
 
 
https://repology.org/project/drs4eb/versions
 
 
enjoy | 
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Fri Apr 13 18:14:07 2018 | 
Alessio Berti | Voltage and Timing Calibration in drs_exam.cpp | Hi,
 
 
we were trying to implement an 
automatic way to calibrate our DRS4 both | 
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Wed May  2 10:44:17 2018 | 
Alessio Berti | Peak at 0 mV in traces | Hi,
 
 
we modified drs_exam.cpp to read 
all 4 channels from the DRS4 and apply directly | 
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Wed May  2 12:23:16 2018 | 
Alessio Berti | Peak at 0 mV in traces | Hi,
 
 
thank you for the quick reply. 
All the bins in the previous histograms have | 
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Tue May  8 12:15:54 2018 | 
Alessio Berti | Peak at 0 mV in traces | Hi Stefan,
 
 
following your example, we tried 
to perform the same measurement, using drs_exam | 
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Mon May 14 09:21:29 2018 | 
Alessio Berti | WIndows Connection problem with drs507 SOLVED | Hi,
 
 
I have a machine with Windows 10 
and the solution provided by Steven works | 
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Wed May  9 14:07:10 2018 | 
Alec Shackleford | WIndows Connection problem with drs507 SOLVED | Thank you for this fantastic solution. 
I had almost reinstalled windows 7 to see 
if that would solve the issue! | 
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Tue Sep 10 10:31:30 2013 | 
Akira Okumura | USB connection stops | Hello the DRS4 team,
 
 
I and some of my colleagues are using DRS4 | 
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Wed Sep 25 14:42:00 2013 | 
Akira Okumura | USB connection stops | Hello Andrey,
 
 
Thank you for your advise. But we never terminated | 
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Mon Mar 23 15:03:28 2020 | 
Ajay Krishnamurthy | USB trigger issue | Hello,
 
 
I had forgotten to disable the 
turn off the power to the USB drive on Windows | 
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Thu Nov 10 04:41:24 2016 | 
Abhishek Rajput | Break Statements in DRS4 Binary to ROOT Macro | Hello,
 
 
I recently modified the binary 
to ROOT convertor written by Stefan (https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/DRS4+Forum/361) | 
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Thu Nov 10 19:24:52 2016 | 
Abhishek Rajput | Break Statements in DRS4 Binary to ROOT Macro | Hello,
 
 
I am wondering why the code should 
be changed to i < sizeof(eh), since doesn't | 
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Wed Nov 23 08:17:23 2016 | 
Abhishek Rajput | Potential Incorrect Timing Calibration for DRS4 Data | Hello,
 
 
I was running through a particular 
binary file containing data taken on all | 
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Tue Nov 29 23:19:06 2016 | 
Abhishek Rajput | Potential Incorrect Timing Calibration for DRS4 Data | Hello Stefan,
 
 
Thank you for the excellent explanation 
and diagram. This part of the code is now | 
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Fri Dec  9 04:17:46 2016 | 
Abhishek Rajput | Potential Incorrect Timing Calibration for DRS4 Data | Hello Stefan,
 
 
Many thanks for the explanations. 
You've cleared my confusion in this matter. | 
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Thu Mar 31 19:30:26 2016 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | I would like to be able to trigger in this 
fashon:  channel 0 > 0.1 and. channel 
1< -0.1,  because I have a positive | 
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Thu Mar 31 19:44:38 2016 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | Ok, thanks!  do you know an easy in-line 
inverter like mini-circuit or digikey?    
Can also redesign the detector I gues to | 
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Thu Mar 31 20:38:05 2016 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | Thanks, that looks just fine.
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Fri Apr  1 01:30:40 2016 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | Hi Chris,
 
 
 I am looking at Sensl SiPMs 
as well,  can you send the part number | 
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Sat Apr  2 17:22:34 2016 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | Thanks again,   this is very 
useful,  just another question did you 
put any other passive elements in the circuit | 
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Sun Apr  3 22:34:28 2016 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | Trigger on the And of a positive and negative signal | Thanks, great!
 
 
 
	
 
		
 
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Wed Apr 27 20:04:12 2016 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | Best settings for time measurements | I am studing some pulses that are about 
200-300 ns wide and a rise time of few ns,    
which settings would be best for coincidence | 
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Tue Jan 29 14:43:44 2019 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | ROOT Macro for data acquired with the newest software | Hello,
 
 
Is there a root macro for decoding 
binary data acquired with the newest software | 
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Fri Mar  8 19:35:11 2019 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | ROOT Macro for newest software | The older root macro did not work for me 
for data acquired with the newest software.
 
 
so for the newest software and | 
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Tue May  4 21:18:28 2021 | 
Abaz Kryemadhi | recording only timestamp and amplitude and/or filesize maximum | Hi,
 
 
I have been collecting some date 
using the DRS4 board at a trigger rate of | 
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