Re: fadc dynamic range of FCAL

[Elton Smith <elton@jlab.org>]

HI Elliott,

We should avoid fitting to pulses eliminating the (saturated) samples at
the peak of the pulse if at all possible.

Elton.


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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Elliott Wolin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Not sure if this is useful, but I've read that groups have had very good success
> reconstructing saturated pulses if they have samples on the leading and trailing portions.
>   Offline they use a pulse-shape model to match the leading and trailing edges, and get 1
> to 2 effective extra ADC bits.
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