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Calicoes' State Machine
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    Figure 1: Calicoes State Machine

The principle of Calicoes is to offer users a state machine to pilot the whole detector, managing all the synchronization and the sequencing issues.

All the transitions of the state machine are associated to a script that can be called from a terminal: load_config_file.sh, initialize.sh, configure.sh ...