Editing Decoding of CODA Data and Creation of ROOT Output (section)

=====TDC Data Word=====
[[File:TDC_Data_Word.png|thumb|none|900px|TDC Data Word]]

For a data word, the geo bits are the same. The three bits should read 000 to mean it is a data word. There will be three unimportant bits (again 0’s), followed by five channel bits. There will be one unimportant bit, and then the ADC will have a second unimportant bit, but the TDC will have a bit to determine valid data. If that valid bit is a 1 then the data is good. For both machines, there will be bits to determine whether the data is underthreshold or in overflow in that order. For our purposes, these bits should always be 0’s meaning that it is not underthreshold nor is it in overflow condition. The last 12 bits is the data itself.

The closing word is simply a constant telling the analyzer to stop parsing when it reads this word.