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== Responsibilities of the control board ==
== Responsibilities of the control board ==
[[Image:OperationCourse.png|frame|Operation course between the digital board and the controller PC]]
[[Image:OperationCourse.png|thumb|255px|Operation course between the digital board and the controller PC]]
The control board is responsible for providing a layer of interaction between the researchers running the experiments and the tagger microscope. The foremost responsibility of the control board is to allow the users to program the bias voltage (which controls the gain) of the SiPMs. It receives signals from an external PC and communicates that information to a DAC which controls the bias voltage. It also monitors itself and reports back to the PC certain statistics, such as voltage of the power lines (to ensure the chips and SiPMs are receiving the required voltages) and temperature of the control board and its immediate vicinity (to ensure that the electronics are not overheating).
The control board is responsible for providing a layer of interaction between the researchers running the experiments and the tagger microscope. The foremost responsibility of the control board is to allow the users to program the bias voltage (which controls the gain) of the SiPMs. It receives signals from an external PC and communicates that information to a DAC which controls the bias voltage. It also monitors itself and reports back to the PC certain statistics, such as voltage of the power lines (to ensure the chips and SiPMs are receiving the required voltages) and temperature of the control board and its immediate vicinity (to ensure that the electronics are not overheating).