Building a VME spectrometer and testing Si PIN diode detector: A feasibility study for the nuclear astrophysical experiments proposed using the 5SDH-2 Tandem Pelletron Accelerator at HUS

This work presents the logical design, connections between NIM and VME electronic modules, and the data acquisition programming to build a complete detector readout system. The energy resolutions of the Si diodes were less than 0.5% energy of a charged particle, which satisfies the foreseen requirement for the upcoming experiments.