New Trends in Multichannel Pulse Data Analysis

New analyzing systems will have megachannel resolution without sacrificing speed of data collection. Here, a survey and comparison of different methods and new proposals to achieve this goal are given. The following systems and their basic principles of operation are described: The use of newly developed rotating memories; a disc system with fixed track addressing per rotation; random track addressing through programming; random track addressing using a special controller; disc buffered system, with continuous updating; time of flight measurement through random modulation and cross-correlation; real time calculation of cross-correlation; the Fourier method.