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The tape format is standard Eurogam ANSI format with 16k blocks.

There are no event separators - Module data is written into the block in ascending VSN order.
There is no block terminator - Data overflows the end of block and does not continue without data loss at the start of the next block. So the partial events at end and start of blocks are ignored.

The current handler supports a configuration file that defines the mapping between Yale Fera VSN/SA numbers and MTsort group/item numbers.

There is a default configuration file which may be modified by entering the "Config" option within the Input Handler window. The FERA VSN and SA pairs that describe an ADC channel must be specified as vsn:sa
An example follows ...

#Assumes Lecroy4300(vsn=0-6), Silena(vsn=7-14)
#Assumes energies suppressed if no time - formatted as (id1:4,e1:12,t1...)
#Format: group    ...
#Clover[1:16] (ea,ta,eb,tb,ec,tc,ed,td)
group 2        10:0 1:0 10:1 1:1 10:2 1:2 10:3 1:3
group 3        10:4 1:4 10:5 1:5 10:6 1:6 10:7 1:7
group 4        11:0 1:12 11:1 1:13 11:2 1:14 11:3 1:15
group 5        11:4 0:4 11:5 0:5 11:6 0:6 11:7 0:7
group 6        12:0 1:8 12:1 1:9 12:2 1:10 12:3 1:11
group 7        9:4  0:8 9:5 0:9 9:6 0:10 9:7 0:11
group 8        19:4 0:12 19:5 0:13 19:6 0:14 19:7 0:15
#Ge[17:31]  (e,t)
group 1        9:2 0:1
#Clock[255] (lo,hi)   ... automatically assigned

The mapping assumes energy/time pairs are written together, with the segment id (0 to 3) written in the top of the energy word as shown in the format statement below.

Clock[255] (lo,hi)   ... automatically assigned
Ge[1]  (e,t)
Clover[2:8] (ida:4,ea:12,ta,idb:4,eb:12,tb,idc:4,ec:12,tc,idd:4,ed:12,td)

Debug information

Setting the debug level in the input handler has the following results...
0 = normal running
1 = also lists un-allocated VSN:SA values found in the data
... Useful for checking you have the right VSN:SA mappings
2 = also lists all allocated VSN:SA values found in the data
5 = also prints start of each input data block

Maintained by Janet Sampson and John Cresswell (University of Liverpool)
Email to support@ns.ph.liv.ac.uk