RT journal article
T1 A self contained Linux based data acquisition system for 2D detectors with delay line readout
A1 Beltrán, D.
A1 Toledo, J.
A1 Klora, A.C.
A1 Ramos Lerate, Inmaculada Concepción
A1 Martínez, J.C.
A2 Física Aplicada
K1 X-ray detectors
K1 Data acquisition
K1 Computer systems
AB This article describes a fast and self-contained data acquisition system for 2D gas-filled detectors with delay line readout. It allows the realization of time resolved experiments in the millisecond scale. The acquisition system comprises of an industrial PC running Linux, a commercial time-to-digital converter and an in-house developed histogramming PCI card. The PC provides a mass storage for images and a graphical user interface for system monitoring and control. The histogramming card builds images with a maximum count rate of 5MHz limited by the time-to-digital converter. Histograms are transferred to the PC at 85 MB/s. This card also includes a time frame generator, a calibration channel unit and eight digital outputs for experiment control. The control software was developed for easy integration into a beamline, including scans. The system is fully operational at the Spanish beamline BM16 at the ESRF in France, the neutron beamlines Adam and Eva at the ILL in France, the Max Plank Institute in Stuttgart in Germany, the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and at the future ALBA synchrotron in Spain. Some representative collected images from synchrotron and neutron beamlines are presented.
PB ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
SN 0168-9002
YR 2007
FD 2007
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30132
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30132
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 13-nov-2026