Control and data acquisition system for collinear laser spectroscopy experiments

A control and data acquisition system was implemented for the recently developed collinear laser spectroscopy setup.This system is dedicated to data recording,storage,processing,monitoring of the beam intensity and energy,and visualization of various spectra.In comparison to the conventional resonance nuclear reaction system,the key technique is the precise synchronization of the detected counts with the actual scanning voltage(or probing laser frequency).The functions of the system were tested by measuring the hyperfine structure spectra of stable calcium(e.g.,^(40)Ca^(+))and radioactive potassium(e.g.,^(38)K)in the bunched and continuous modes,respectively.This system will be routinely applied and further improved in subsequent laser spectroscopy experiments on unstable isotopes at the Beijing Radioactive Ion-beam Facility(BRIF).

A Review of Data Acquisition System based on LabVIEW

With the continuous development and expansion of automotive industry, car safety problems are widely concerned by most of us. In order to make it easier to adjust car′s real-time body posture, it is necessary to design a real-time data acquisition system, thus reducing the number of casualties in normal driving. A brief account of the development status of data acquisition system at home and abroad, and the concept, principle,function of virtual instrument platform are given. The advantages and disadvantages of the data acquisitionsystem, based on LabVIEW in different methods of data acquisition, are analyzed and compared, and put forward some improvements and optimization, so the real-time data acquisition system can meet the requirement of adjusting the state of the vehicle, improving real-time of data acquisition and processing. Finally, it indicates the development direction and prospect of data acquisition system based on LabVIEW.

The development of data acquisition and processing application system for RF ion source

As the key ion source component of nuclear fusion auxiliary heating devices, the radio frequency （RF） ion source is developed and applied gradually to offer a source plasma with the advantages of ease of control and high reliability. In addition, it easily achieves long-pulse steady-state operation. During the process of the development and testing of the RF ion source, a lot of original experimental data will be generated. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a stable and reliable computer data acquisition and processing application system for realizing the functions of data acquisition, storage, access, and real-time monitoring. In this paper, the development of a data acquisition and processing application system for the RF ion source is presented. The hardware platform is based on the PXI system and the software is programmed on the LabVIEW development environment. The key technologies that are used for the implementation of this software programming mainly include the long-pulse data acquisition technology, multi- threading processing technology, transmission control communication protocol, and the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer data compression algorithm. Now, this design has been tested and applied on the RF ion source. The test results show that it can work reliably and steadily. With the help of this design, the stable plasma discharge data of the RF ion source are collected, stored, accessed, and monitored in real-time. It is shown that it has a very practical application significance for the RF experiments.

Design and implementation of 1 GHz high speed data acquisition system

With the development of current electronic technology, numerous high-speed data acquisition systems provide a variety of potential benefits. This article describes a high-speed data acquisition system which consists of ECL logic and TTL logic devices, samples and stores data with a 1 GHz clock. This system is accomplished easily and works stably. A performance test of this system has been undertaken and the results show that the effective number of bits （ENOB） is more than 6.5 bits.

Development of a Data Acquisition Control System for the First NBI on EAST

Neutral beam injection （NBI） heating is one of the most efficient auxiliary plasma heating methods for fusion devices. The data acquisition control system （DACS） with PXI （pe- ripheral component interconnect extensions for instrumentation） data acquisition card for the first NBI system in the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak （EAST） is presented in this paper. As an important sub-system, DACS is designed to obtain physical measurement signals in the EAST NBI system and to deal and store these data with the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer （LZO） lossless data compression algorithm, as well as offer convenient data call-back and access inter- faces to the user for examining and analyzing the data. Experimental results show that accurate data will ensure that researchers correctly analyze it and then properly adjust the experimental parameters or operation, so DACS should take a large step in improving experimental efficiency. Tile hardware and software sections are briefly presented in this paper, and now this system has been tested to be able to work reliably and steadily.

On the Study of Multi-Gas Data Acquisition System Based on PCI1711 Card

A data acquisition system for testing gas sensor array response to multi-gas is presented.The testing system is based on the character of the gas response of metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor array.The data acquisition is realized automatically through the real time controlling of the data acquisition card PCI1711.This system is highly attractive for electronic nose,which is a powerful tool for the discrimination of gases.

Performance of digital data acquisition system in gamma-ray spectroscopy

A newly developed digital data acquisition system,which is based on the digital pulse processor Pixie-16 modules by XIA LLC,was tested with the c-ray detector array of the China Institute of Atomic Energy using the cray source and in-beam c-rays.A comparison between this digital data acquisition system and the conventional analog data acquisition system was made.At a low count rate,both systems exhibit good and comparable energy resolutions.At a high count rate above 8.8 k/s,while the energy resolution obtained by the analog system deteriorates significantly,the energy resolution obtained by the digital system is nearly unchanged.Meanwhile,experimental data with higher statistics can be collected by the digital system.The advantage of this digital system over the conventional analog system can be ascribed to its excellent capability of handling pile-up pulses at higher count rates,and the fact that it has nearly no dead time in data transmission and conversion.

Data Acquisition System for Electron Energy Loss Coincident Spectrometers

A Data Acquisition System （DAQ） for electron energy loss coincident spectrometers （EELCS） has been developed. The system is composed of a Multiplex Time-Digital Converter （TDC） that measures the flying time of positive and negative ions and a one-dimension positionsensitive detector that records the energy loss of scattering electrons. The experimental data are buffered in a first-in-first-out（FIFO） memory module, then transferred from the FIFO memory to PC by the USB interface. The DAQ system can record the flying time of several ions in one collision, and allows of different data collection modes. The system has been demonstrated at the Electron Energy Loss Coincident Spectrometers at the Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Physics, USTC. A detail description of the whole system is given and experimental results shown.

Development and Integration of a Data Acquisition System for SST-1 Phase-1 Plasma Diagnostics

Long pulse （of the order of 1000 s or more） SST-1 tokamak experiments demand a data acquisition system that is capable of acquiring data from various diagnostics channels without losing useful data （and hence physics information） while avoiding unnecessary generation of a large volume data. SST-1 Phase-1 tokamak operation has been envisaged with data acquisition of several essential diagnostics channels. These channels demand data acquisition at a sampling rate ranging from 1 kilo samples per second （KSPS） to 1 mega samples per second （MSPS）. Considering the technical characteristics and requirements of the diagnostics, a data acquisition system based on PXI and CAMAC has been developed for SST-1 plasma diagnostics. Both these data acquisition systems are scalable. Present data acquisition needs involving slow plasma diagnostics are catered by the PXI based data acquisition system. On the other hand, CAMAC data acquisition hardware meets all requirements of the SST-1 Phase-1 fast plasma diagnostics channels. A graphical user interface for both data acquisition systems （PXI and CAMAC） has been developed using LabVIEW application development software. The collected data on the local hard disk are directly streaming to the central server through a dedicated network for post-shot data analysis. This paper describes the development and integration of the data acquisition system for SST-1 Phase-1 plasma diagnostics. The integrated testing of the developed data acquisition system has been performed using SST-1 central control and diagnostics signal conditioning units. In the absence of plasma shots, the integrated testing of the data acquisition system for the initial diagnostics of SST-1 Phase-1 operation has been performed with simulated physical signals. The primary engineering objective of this integrated testing is to validate the performance of the developed data acquisition system under simulated conditions close to that of actual tokamak operation. The data acquisition is synchronized with a clock and trigger provided by the central timing system.

The development of data acquisition and control system for extraction power supply of prototype RF ion source

A 16 kV/20 A power supply was developed for the extraction grid of prototype radio frequency（RF） ion source of neutral beam injector. To acquire the state signals of extraction grid power supply（EGPS） and control the operation of the EGPS, a data acquisition and control system has been developed. This system mainly consists of interlock protection circuit board, photoelectric conversion circuit, optical fibers, industrial compact peripheral component interconnect（CPCI） computer and host computer. The human machine interface of host computer delivers commands and data to program of the CPCI computer, as well as offers a convenient client for setting parameters and displaying EGPS status. The CPCI computer acquires the status of the power supply. The system can turn-off the EGPS quickly when the faults of EGPS occur. The system has been applied to the EGPS of prototype RF ion source. Test results show that the data acquisition and control system for the EGPS can meet the requirements of the operation of prototype RF ion source.

Design and Implementation of a High-Speed Multi-Channel Data Acquisition System

A data acquisition system （DAS） to implement high-speed, real-time and multi-channel data acquisition and store is presented. The control of the system is implemented by the combination of complex programable logic device （CPLD） and digital signal processing （DSP）, the bulk buffer of the system is implemented by the combination of CPLD, DSP, and synchronous dynamic random access memory （SDRAM）, and the data transfer is implemented by the combination of DSP, first in first out （FIFO）, universal serial bus （USB） and USB hub. The system could not only work independently in single-channel mode, but also implement high-speed real-time multi-channel data acquisition system （MCDAS） by the combination of multiple single-channels. The sampling rate and data storage capacity of each channel could reach up to 100 million sampiing per second and 256 MB respectively.

Development of a data acquisition and control system for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor neutron flux monitor

To satisfy high-precision,widc-rangc,and real-time neutron flux measurement requirements by the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITF.R),a data acquisition and control system based on fission chamber detectors and fast controller technology,has been developed for neutron flux monitor in ITER Equatorial Port#7.The signal processing units which arc based on a field programmable gate array and the PXI Express platform arc designed to realize the neutron flux measurement with I ms time resolution and a fast response less than 0.2 ms,together with real-time timestamps provided by a timing hoard.The application of the wide-range algorithm allows the system to measure up to 10^10cps with a relative error of less than 5%.Furthermore,the system is managed and controlled by a software based on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System,compliant with COntrol.Data Access and Communication architecture.

High-speed broadband data acquisition system based on FPGA

A field-programmable gate array(FPGA)based high-speed broadband data acquisition system is designed.The system has a dual channel simultaneous acquisition function.The maximum sampling rate is 500 MSa/s and bandwidth is200 MHz,which solves the large bandwidth,high-speed signal acquisition and processing problems.At present,the data acquisition system is successfully used in broadband receiver test systems.

Design of Experimental System of USB Data Acquisition Card-based Temperature Acquisition

In order to design a more efficient and more convenient temperature acquisition system, an approach combining USB data acquisition card with K type thermocouple temperature sensor is proposed under the circumstance of LabVIEW 2012 programming software. Firstly, the LabVIEW 2012 programming software is used to complete a temperature acquisition control program. Secondly, K type thermocouple temperature sensor is employed to transfer the temperature information. Thirdly, Then the USB data acquisition card can collect the voltage of K type thermocouple temperature sensor and convert it to a temperature scale. And, the simplification of experimental procedure can reduce the cost of development greatly. Finally, the experimental results illustrate that the range of measurement temperature is more wide and the temperature scale is more accurate.

Development of Data Acquisition Card Driver for ICRH System on EAST

Presented in this paper is the development of the driver for the data acquisition card with a peripheral component interconnection （PCI） local bus on the ion cyclotron range of frequency heating （1CRH） system. The driver is mainly aimed at the embedded VxWorks system （real-time operating system） which is widely used in various fields of real-time systems. An efficient way is employed to develop this driver, which will advance the real-time control of the ICRH system on the experimental advanced superconductor tokamak （EAST）. The driver is designed using the TORNADO integrated development environment （IDE）, and implemented in C plus language. The details include the hardware configuration, analogue/digital （A/D） and digital/analogue （D/A） conversion, input and output （I/O） operation of the driver to support over five cards. The data acquisition card can be manipulated in a low-level program and meet the requirements of A/D conversion and D/A outputs.

Study on the Data Acquisition System for the pH Sensor

This study reveals the successful design of the data acquisition system for pH sensors.The data acquisition system includes an instrumentation amplifier,a low pass filter and a calculation program.The instrumentation amplifier used as the readout circuit has many advantages,including high input impedance,high gain,low output impedance,high CMRR and high bandwidth.The low pass filter is employed to cancel the circuit noise.The calculation program uses the two-point calibration method to calculate the sample concentration.Furthermore,this study employs Boolean function to cancel error signals.As indicated by experimental results,the readout circuit obtains the sensing signal and the calculation program calculates the pH value.Hence,this study successfully fabricates an effective data acquisition system for pH sensors.

Alternate Data Acquisition and Real-time Monitoring System on HT-7 Tokamak

A new system called alternate data acquisition and real-time monitoring system has been developed for long-time discharge in tokamak operation. It can support continuous on-line data acquisition at a high sampling rate and a graphic display of the plasma parameters during the discharge. Thus operators can monitor and control the plasma state in real time. An application of this system has been demonstrated on the HT-7 tokamak.

Recent Development of Data Acquisition System on HL-2A

This paper introduced recent development of data acquisition system(DAS) on the HL-2A tokamak. The existing DAS has to be remodeled because of the evident improvement on HL-2A itself and the increasing amount of corresponding experimental data. First, the experimental network on HL-2A Tokamak as a communication center is described in detail. Secondly, 'The File's Format & Criterion of Experimental Data on HL-2A Tokamak' as the core of the new software is also presented. Thirdly, not only a multi-screen image display system on HL-2A is discussed, but also the build-up of a new display wall system is dealt with. Finally, on the graphical WINDOWS platform and on the basis of the new Data File's Format & Criterion, the new software on HL-2A is described, including a new multi-layer database management program, a real-time processing program, a common interactive analytic processing program and a data post-processing program, which is now under development.

Remote Control for the HT-7 Distributed Data Acquisition System

HT-7 is the first superconducting tokamak device for fusion research in China. Many experiments have been done in the machine since 1994, and lots of satisfactory results have been achieved in the fusion research field on HT-7 tokamak [1]. With the development of fusion research, remote control of experiment becomes more and more important to improve experimental efficiency and expand research results. This paper will describe a RCS (Remote Control System), the combined model of Browser/Server and Client/Server, based on Internet of HT-7 distributed data acquisition system (HT7DAS). By means of RCS, authorized users all over the world can control and configure HT7DAS remotely. The RCS is designed to improve the flexibility, opening, reliability and efficiency of HT7DAS. In the paper, the whole process of design along with implementation of the system and some key items are discussed in detail. The System has been successfully operated during HT-7 experiment in 2002 campaign period.

Development of an Ethernet-based data acquisition system of resistance spot welding for white-body assembly

The resistance spot welding plays an important role in automotive industry. The electrical parameters （power supply voltage, welding current, SCR firing angle and current flow angle） of welding process can reflect the quality of joint and the status of welding equipment, many data acquisition devices designed to collect those parameters have been discussed in many papers, but there is such a deficiency that one computer can only link with an acquisition device. At automobile assembly field, there are hundreds of welding machines working at the same time, so the existing device can not be satisfied with manufacturing demand. To solve the problem, the double-MCU data acquisition device based on Ethernet is discussed in this paper, the data acquisition devices can altogether link with a computer using a HUB, the effective value or the instantaneous value of electrical parameters can be transmitted to the computer over UDP/IP. All the data are read through Ethernet port of a computer using a LabView application, which can process, store and present all data to the user. Finally the experiments prove that the designed Ethernet-based data acquisition system is suitable for practical application.