Title :
Time-Sharing a Disk Memory for On-Line Spectrum Accumulation from Many Nuclear Pulse-Height Analyzers
Author_Institution :
Bio-Medical Division and Electronics Engineering Department Lawrence Radiation Laboratory University of California Livermore, California 94550
Abstract :
Several pulse-height analyzers time-share a large disk memory for on-line accumulation of sorted spectra. The system is controlled by a PDP-8 computer which performs a two-level hardware-software sort on the data in real time. The computer dynamically allocates storage to incoming events and schedules disk accesses to achieve high sorting rates under a variety of counting loads.
Keywords :
Computer interfaces; Data acquisition; Hardware; Laboratories; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic separation; Nuclear electronics; Real time systems; Teleprinting; Time sharing computer systems;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1970.4325602
