A high-speed data acquisition and diagnostic system for the NRL Super IBEX electron beam generator

An ASYST-based 64-channel high-speed transient data acquisition system is described. The system is designed to monitor the Super IBEX, a high-current, relativistic electron beam generator. The system measures the propagation parameters of the electron beam and the machine diagnostics of the electron beam generator. The data acquisition software is designed to allow fast and easy instrument setup, acquisition, processing, graphing, and filing of raw and postprocessed data. Digitizer setup is simplified by using a spreadsheet format that groups eight channels of a given digitizer onto a single screen along with all of the necessary function settings for that digitizer. The data file structure allows the storage 64 channels of raw data and provides the ability to add up to 100 additional postprocessed data sets within a single file. Graphing and signal processing functions are integrated by using full-screen graphs with pull-down menus for choosing the various signal processing and analysis functions