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Title

  • Main Title Trials, tribulations, and pitfalls using commercial instruments for data acquisition

Creator

  • Author: Lee,R.C.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Olsen, R. H.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Unger, K. L.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: United States

Date

  • Creation: 2009-10-12

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) uses many commercially available instruments - for example spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, digital volt meters, signal generators - as integral parts of instrumentation and control systems. Typically these systems are remotely controlled. Using commercial instruments has many benefits. Manufactures have the skill, knowledge, and experience to produce high quality products. The price performance ratio is hard to duplicate. There are also disadvantages. Proprietary interfaces, single platform drivers, and reliable operation provide challenges for implementation and unattended operation. Several of the systems used at RHIC will be described. Their issues and solutions will be presented.

Subject

  • STI Subject Categories: 43 Particle Accelerators
  • Keyword: Data Acquisition
  • Keyword: Heavy Ions
  • Keyword: Physics
  • Keyword: Meters
  • Keyword: Implementation
  • Keyword: Accelerators
  • Keyword: Prices
  • Keyword: Control Systems
  • Keyword: Performance

Source

  • Conference: 12th International Conference on Accelerators and Large Experimental Physics Controls Systems (ICALEPCS 2009); Kobe, Japan; 20091012 through 20091016

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: BNL--82260-2009-CP
  • Grant Number: DE-AC02-98CH10886
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 967354
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc929001
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