JIGSAW: a gamma ray data acquisition, display and analysis program

Author

Haywood, S.E. ; Bamford, G.J. ; Rester, A.C. ; Coldwell, R.L.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Astrophys. & Planetary Exploration, Florida Univ., Alachua, FL, USA

Volume

39

Issue

4

fYear

1992

fDate

8/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

901

Lastpage

903

Abstract

The authors report on work performed to date on JIGSAW, a self-contained data acquisition, display, and analysis system designed to collect data from multiple gamma-ray detectors. The data acquisition system utilizes commercially available VMEbus and NIM hardware modules, and the VME exec real-time operating system. A Unix-based software package, written in ANSI standard C and with the X11 graphics routines, allows the user to view the acquired spectra. Analysis of the histograms can be performed in background during the run with the ROBFIT (R.L. Coldwell and G.J. Bamford, 1991) suite of curve fitting routines

Keywords

data acquisition; gamma-ray detection and measurement; physics computing; system buses; ANSI standard C; NIM hardware modules; ROBFIT; Unix-based software package; VME exec real-time operating system; VMEbus; X11 graphics routines; curve fitting routines; display and analysis program; gamma ray data acquisition; multiple gamma-ray detectors; ANSI standards; Data acquisition; Displays; Gamma ray detectors; Graphics; Hardware; Operating systems; Performance analysis; Real time systems; Software packages;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.159729

Filename

159729