Configuration Method and Comments

The ``method'' xml node specifies how a precinct should go about building configurations. In general almost every precinct uses one of:

• NONE: is just used as a tag by the GUI tools when the method is unspecified.
• BCAST: requests that the default values be used for every channel.
• CALIB: requests that a calibration be applied. This will usually also require one or more constants to set things like the threshold level.
• SETTINGS: requests that an input file with the register settings be used. The precinct will just reformat those settings into valid LATC_XML.

In a small number of cases there may be more that one way to make the precinct settings from calibrations. In those cases the method tags are CALIB_TYPE, such as in the ACD_Veto precinct where CALIB_MIP and CALIB_PHA specify two different ways to build configurations from input calibrations.