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Figure 6
Timing signal connection diagram of fast and slow cameras. The timing and the trigger signal from the EuXFEL timing system are distributed to the microTCA unit equipped with different timing boards. Each timing board provides or receives TTL signals and offers in-built logic operations. The slow camera is triggered with a train synchronized 10 Hz trigger, which is issued before each pulse train arrival approximately 50 ms. The fast camera uses an STB synchronized signal which is generated every 15 s. The STB signal is composed of a 10 Hz trigger and a programmable TTL out signal by logical AND on the timing board. The fast camera is set to generate the output TTL signal at the start of recording of the first frame. This signal is detected by the TTL input module and only recorded data are tagged with the train ID. An oscilloscope is used to monitor these signals.

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