The pedestal value is stored in the lower 12bit. Single channels can be
switched off by setting bit~16 to one.
+\noindent Please note that pedestal values are given in raw ADC numbers (no
+artificial baseline adding). Threshold values always refer to the artificial
+baseline and are simply given in terms of $ n \cdot \sigma$.
+
\subsubsection{I2C master}
For configuration and slow control of APV chips a complete I2C master is