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First thing, the waveform is delivered from the firmware to the software with the time axis measured in tick counts. We need to convert it to nanoseconds. The EPICS records record responsible for this are is in the weightFunctionXAxis.db database. The firmware informs half of its clock frequency in Hz for each of the AMC cards by using the registers /mmio/AppTop/AppCore/AmcGenericAdcDacCore[n]/AmcGenericAdcDacCtrl/AmcClkFreq, with n varying from 0 to 1 according to the AMC card. The registers are translated to Asyn parameters AMC0:AmcClkFreq and AMC1:AmcClkFreq by the dictionary blenMR.dict. The CALC field converts from Hz to nanoseconds, remembering that the firmware gives the number related to half of the frequency.

Next step is to calculate the time related to each section of the integration window: pre-edge, inter-edges, and post-edge. Basically, we multiply the size of the window section in ticks by the period of the tick in nanoseconds, as calculated before. The inter-edges is different because the firmware delivers half of the size. That's why we have B*2 in the calculation. The register names and Asyn parameter names are in the table below.