diff --git a/schema/appmodel/PDS.schema.xml b/schema/appmodel/PDS.schema.xml
index 6ef07b9..fff5799 100644
--- a/schema/appmodel/PDS.schema.xml
+++ b/schema/appmodel/PDS.schema.xml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 
 <oks-schema>
 
-<info name="" type="" num-of-items="11" oks-format="schema" oks-version="862f2957270" created-by="mroda" created-on="theta.ph.liv.ac.uk" creation-time="20241011T123346" last-modified-by="gjc" last-modified-on="latitude" last-modification-time="20250818T145108"/>
+<info name="" type="" num-of-items="14" oks-format="schema" oks-version="862f2957270" created-by="mroda" created-on="theta.ph.liv.ac.uk" creation-time="20241011T123346" last-modified-by="gjc" last-modified-on="latitude" last-modification-time="20260319T165326"/>
 
 <include>
  <file path="schema/confmodel/dunedaq.schema.xml"/>
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
  <class name="DaphneApplication">
   <superclass name="SmartDaqApplication"/>
   <superclass name="ResourceSetDisableAND"/>
-  <relationship name="configuration" class-type="DaphneConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
+  <relationship name="configuration" description="Deferred configuration to be loaded by DaphneControllerModule" class-type="DeferredConfig" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <relationship name="detector_connections" description="List of detector components controlled by this application" class-type="DetectorToDaqConnection" low-cc="zero" high-cc="many" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <relationship name="hermes_module_conf" class-type="HermesModuleConf" low-cc="zero" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <method name="generate_modules" description="Generate DaqModule dal objects for streams of the application on the fly">
@@ -104,15 +104,16 @@
   </method>
  </class>
 
- <class name="DaphneConf" description="Top entry for the configuraiton of a single daphne board">
-  <attribute name="timeout_ms" description="timeout used for the board operations" type="u16" range="1..60000" init-value="1000" is-not-null="yes"/>
-  <attribute name="time_reset" description="If True, it performs the time reset at configuration. If False, that is skipped" type="bool" init-value="True" is-not-null="yes"/>
+ <class name="DaphneBoard">
   <relationship name="default_v2_settings" description="Value to be used during scrap" class-type="DaphneV2BoardConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
+  <relationship name="default_v3_settings" description="Value to be used during scrap" class-type="DaphneV2BoardConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <relationship name="boards" class-type="DaphneMapEntry" low-cc="zero" high-cc="many" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
-  <relationship name="default_v3_settings" class-type="DaphneV2BoardConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
-  <method name="get_timeout" description="get the interval casted in ms">
-   <method-implementation language="C++" prototype="std::chrono::milliseconds get_timeout() const" body="BEGIN_HEADER_PROLOGUE&#xA;#include &lt;chrono&gt;&#xA;END_HEADER_PROLOGUE&#xA;&#xA;return std::chrono::milliseconds(get_timeout_ms());"/>
-  </method>
+ </class>
+
+ <class name="DaphneControllerModule">
+  <superclass name="DaqModule"/>
+  <attribute name="daphne_id" description="Id of DaphneBoardConf to be read from run time included configuration file." type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
+  <relationship name="daphne_conf" class-type="DeferredConfig" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
  </class>
 
  <class name="DaphneMapEntry">
@@ -150,6 +151,8 @@
   <attribute name="slot_id" type="u16" range="0..15" is-not-null="yes"/>
   <attribute name="crate_id" type="u16" range="0..1023" is-not-null="yes"/>
   <attribute name="detector_id" type="u16" range="0..63" is-not-null="yes"/>
+  <attribute name="timeout_ms" description="timeout used for the board operations" type="u16" range="1..60000" init-value="1000" is-not-null="yes"/>
+  <attribute name="time_reset" description="If True, it performs the time reset at configuration. If False, that is skipped" type="bool" init-value="true" is-not-null="yes"/>
   <relationship name="active_channels" class-type="DaphneV2Channel" low-cc="zero" high-cc="many" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <relationship name="active_afes" class-type="DaphneV2AFE" low-cc="zero" high-cc="many" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <relationship name="default_channel" class-type="DaphneV2Channel" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
@@ -166,6 +169,9 @@
   <method name="is_afe_used" description="check if an AFE is used">
    <method-implementation language="c++" prototype="bool is_afe_used(size_t ch) const" body=""/>
   </method>
+  <method name="timeout" description="get the interval cast into std::chrono::milliseconds">
+   <method-implementation language="c++" prototype="std::chrono::milliseconds timeout() const" body="BEGIN_HEADER_PROLOGUE&#xA;#include &lt;chrono&gt;&#xA;END_HEADER_PROLOGUE&#xA;&#xA;return std::chrono::milliseconds(get_timeout_ms());"/>
+  </method>
  </class>
 
  <class name="DaphneV2Channel">
@@ -176,20 +182,10 @@
   <attribute name="stream_id" description="In Daphne v3 we might need to link a channel to a specific link ID, and this is the hook for the operation" type="s8" init-value="-1" is-not-null="yes"/>
  </class>
 
- <class name="DaphneControllerModule">
-  <superclass name="DaqModule"/>
-  <relationship name="daphne_conf" class-type="DaphneConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
-  <relationship name="board_conf" class-type="DaphneV2BoardConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="yes" is-exclusive="yes" is-dependent="yes"/>
- </class>
-
  <class name="DaphneV2ControllerModule">
   <superclass name="DaphneControllerModule"/>
  </class>
 
- <class name="DaphneV3ControllerModule">
-  <superclass name="DaphneControllerModule"/>
- </class>
-
  <class name="DaphneV2LNA" description="info to generate Reg52 value">
   <attribute name="clamp" description="0=auto setting, 1=1.5 Vpp, 2=1.15 Vpp, 3=0.6 Vpp" type="u8" range="0..3" init-value="0" is-not-null="yes"/>
   <attribute name="integrator_disable" type="bool" init-value="true" is-not-null="yes"/>
@@ -208,6 +204,10 @@
   </method>
  </class>
 
+ <class name="DaphneV3ControllerModule">
+  <superclass name="DaphneControllerModule"/>
+ </class>
+
  <class name="SSPLEDCalibModule" description="SSP LED Calib DAQ Module configuration">
   <superclass name="DaqModule"/>
   <attribute name="card_id" description="Physical card identifier (in the same host)" type="u32" init-value="0" is-not-null="yes"/>
diff --git a/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml b/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml
index b989837..7632cf5 100644
--- a/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml
+++ b/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 
 <oks-schema>
 
-<info name="" type="" num-of-items="69" oks-format="schema" oks-version="862f2957270" created-by="gjc" created-on="thinkpad" creation-time="20230616T091343" last-modified-by="eflumerf" last-modified-on="ironvirt9.mshome.net" last-modification-time="20260203T131505"/>
+<info name="" type="" num-of-items="70" oks-format="schema" oks-version="862f2957270" created-by="gjc" created-on="thinkpad" creation-time="20230616T091343" last-modified-by="gjc" last-modified-on="latitude" last-modification-time="20260319T120221"/>
 
 <include>
  <file path="schema/confmodel/dunedaq.schema.xml"/>
@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@
   <relationship name="module_configuration" class-type="DataHandlerConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
  </class>
 
+ <class name="DataMoveCallbackConf">
+  <attribute name="source_id" type="u32" init-value="0" is-not-null="yes"/>
+  <attribute name="data_type" description="Name of the output data type. Should be defined via a call to DUNE_DAQ_TYPESTRING" type="string" init-value="WIBEthFrame"/>
+ </class>
+
+ <class name="DataMoveCallbackDescriptor">
+  <attribute name="uid_base" description="Base for callback UID string. May be combined with a source id" type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
+  <attribute name="data_type" description="string identifying type of data passed as a callback parameter" type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
+ </class>
+
  <class name="DataProcessor">
   <attribute name="queue_sizes" type="u32" init-value="10000"/>
   <attribute name="thread_names_prefix" type="string" init-value="postproc-"/>
@@ -230,6 +240,11 @@
   <relationship name="configuration" class-type="DataWriterConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
  </class>
 
+ <class name="DeferredConfig">
+  <attribute name="configuration_file" description="Additional configuration file to be included at run time to provide detailed configuration of the daphne board" type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
+  <attribute name="entry_uid" description="UID of the object to be loaded from the deferred configuration file" type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
+ </class>
+
  <class name="FakeDataApplication">
   <superclass name="ResourceSetDisableAND"/>
   <superclass name="SmartDaqApplication"/>
@@ -406,16 +421,6 @@
   <attribute name="data_type" description="string identifying type of data transferred through this queue" type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
  </class>
 
- <class name="DataMoveCallbackConf">
-  <attribute name="source_id" type="u32" init-value="0" is-not-null="yes"/>
-  <attribute name="data_type" description="Name of the output data type. Should be defined via a call to DUNE_DAQ_TYPESTRING" type="string" init-value="WIBEthFrame"/>
- </class>
-
- <class name="DataMoveCallbackDescriptor">
-  <attribute name="uid_base" description="Base for callback UID string. May be combined with a source id" type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
-  <attribute name="data_type" description="string identifying type of data passed as a callback parameter" type="string" is-not-null="yes"/>
- </class>
-
  <class name="ReadoutApplication">
   <superclass name="SmartDaqApplication"/>
   <superclass name="ResourceSetDisableAND"/>
diff --git a/src/DaphneApplication.cpp b/src/DaphneApplication.cpp
index 4ae92db..628eede 100644
--- a/src/DaphneApplication.cpp
+++ b/src/DaphneApplication.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #include "ConfigObjectFactory.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/appmodelIssues.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/FelixDataSender.hpp"
-#include "appmodel/DaphneConf.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/DaphneMapEntry.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/DaphneV2BoardConf.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/DaphneV2Channel.hpp"
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "appmodel/DaphneV2ControllerModule.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/DaphneV3ControllerModule.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/DaphneApplication.hpp"
+#include "appmodel/DeferredConfig.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/FelixDetectorToDaqConnection.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/NetworkDetectorToDaqConnection.hpp"
 #include "appmodel/NWDetDataSender.hpp"
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@ DaphneApplication::generate_modules(std::shared_ptr<appmodel::ConfigurationHelpe
 
   auto daphne_conf = get_configuration();
 
-  std::map<std::string, const DaphneV2BoardConf*> conf_map;
-  auto confs = daphne_conf->get_boards();
-  for ( const auto & c : confs ) {
-    conf_map[c->get_key()] = c->get_conf();
-  }
-
   //  these maps are all indexed on the board id {detector].{crate}.{slot}
   std::map<std::string, bool> v3_map;
   std::map<std::string, const confmodel::NetworkInterface*> interfaces;
@@ -181,15 +175,10 @@ DaphneApplication::generate_modules(std::shared_ptr<appmodel::ConfigurationHelpe
   
   for ( const auto & [id, v3] : v3_map ) {
   
-    auto conf_it = conf_map.find(id);
-    if ( conf_it == conf_map.end() ) {
-      throw MissingDaphne(ERS_HERE, id);
-    }
-    auto conf = conf_it->second;
 
     conffwk::ConfigObject module_obj = obj_fac.create( (v3 ?  "DaphneV3ControllerModule" : "DaphneV2ControllerModule"), fmt::format("controller-{}", id) );
     module_obj.set_obj("daphne_conf", & daphne_conf -> config_object() );
-    module_obj.set_obj("board_conf", & conf -> config_object() );
+    module_obj.set_by_val<std::string>("daphne_id", id);
 
     auto module = obj_fac.get_dal<confmodel::DaqModule>(module_obj); 
     modules.push_back(module);