Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium, 1996. Conference Record., 1996 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3534-1
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1996.591041
