A system for nuclear data aquisition

Author

Malaquias, José Luís ; Almeida, Pedro ; Amílcar, Paulo ; Cruz, Nuno ; Correia, Carlos M B A

Author_Institution

Dept. de Fisica, Coimbra Univ., Portugal

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

2-9 Nov 1996

Firstpage

494

Abstract

A system is presented for use in nuclear physics data acquisition. The system is hosted on a personal computer´s ISA bus, and is based on the TMS320C31 digital signal processor (DSP), a fast floating point DSP that simultaneously handles several different tasks in this system, by means of an interrupt-driven architecture. The system includes three different data acquisition modules: a multi-channel analyzer, a multi-channel scaler, and a signal analyzer. Using the interrupt-driven architecture, the DSP pre-processes the data coming from the three different data acquisition modules, and accepts data requests from the host PC. On the PC side, the system runs under Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT, and it implements the client-server model

Keywords

data acquisition; digital signal processing chips; high energy physics instrumentation computing; pulse height analysers; scaling circuits; signal processing; system buses; ISA bus; Microsoft Windows 95; TMS320C31 digital signal processor; Windows NT; client-server model; data acquisition modules; fast floating point DSP; host PC; interrupt-driven architecture; multichannel analyzer; multichannel scaler; nuclear data aquisition; nuclear physics; signal analyzer; Costs; Data acquisition; Digital signal processing; Graphical user interfaces; Hardware; Instruments; Microcomputers; Moon; Operating systems; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium, 1996. Conference Record., 1996 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3534-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1996.591041

Filename

591041