Button for opening the configuration panel.

Normalization: Scales all curves relatively with a maximum of 1.

Autoscale: If enabled, the program continually adjusts the curves ranges on the display, on both the X and the Y axes.

Update box: If enabled, the display is continually updated to show all the acquired data.

Integration time

Duration, during which the counts are collected. The accumulated counts are then divided by the integration time for calculating the count rate. Default is a 1 sec integration time, minimum is 0.1 sec, and maximum 10sec. Note that rebinning to longer intervals can later be done in the correction tool.

Button to transfer the acquired curve(s) to the PSAMPLE Correction tool.

Button for clearing the data buffer.

Clear box: If enabled, the data buffer is cleared when starting a new acquisition. In particular, upon the re-start of an experiment the acquisition will overwrite the existing measurements. Contrary, if disabled, the acquisition will continue from the moment the experiment was stopped.

Creates a capture of the entire screen and adds it to a buffer of up to 20 captures.

Opens the PMOD console window with log information.

The End By supports two settings:

• User: allows stopping the acquisition any time by activating the STOP button;
• Time: the user can define the acquisition duration, in minutes, after which the measurement is automatically stopped.

Device Info: Shows the device configuration.

Hide/Show Controls: Allows to show or hide the curve control elements.

Define/Save Protocol: For the definition of an acquisition protocol.

Load Protocol: For retrieving an acquisition protocol.

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Start: Starts the acquisition for the configured device. Start All starts the acquisition on all configured devices at once.

Stop: Stops the acquisition for the configured device. Stop All stops all devices at once.