High-speed Multi-channel Data Acquisition Research Articles

Implementation of a High-Speed Multichannel Data Acquisition System for Magnetic Diagnostics and Plasma Centroid Position Control in ISTTOK

Implementation of a High-Speed Multichannel Data Acquisition System for Magnetic Diagnostics and Plasma Centroid Position Control in ISTTOK

A low-cost, high-speed, multi-channel Arduino-based data acquisition system for wind turbine systems

Commercially available high-speed multi-channel data acquisition systems can be expensive to purchase and are generally difficult to tailor to specific applications. Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform that facilitates the design and build of computer controlled systems for a wide variety of uses. This article describes in detail several separate high-speed data acquisition systems that have been integrated to simultaneously acquire data from sensors on the rotor, platform and tower of an operating 5 kW horizontal-axis wind turbine along with wind speed and direction data. Due to the presence of strong magnetic fields at the turbine site, turbine direction and yaw rate were measured using high-definition visual footage from a GoPro® and analysed in a MATLAB script. The processed data from the GoPro system was time-aligned with data from the Arduino-based systems allowing the response of the turbine to be analysed in detail.

High speed multi-channel data acquisition technique for efficient hardware utilization using quad data rate approach

Data acquisition is the most demanding application for the acquisition and monitoring of various sensor signals. The data received are processed in real-time environment. This paper proposes a novel Data Acquisition (DAQ) technique for better resource utilization with less power consumption. Present work has designed and compared advanced Quad Data Rate (QDR) technique with traditional Dual Data Rate (DDR) technique in terms of resource utilization and power consumption of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. Xilinx ISE is used to verify results of FPGA resource utilization by QDR with state of the art DDR approach. The paper ratiocinates that QDR technique outperforms traditional DDR technique in terms of FPGA resource utilization.  

Dedicated 4πβ (LS)-γ (HPGe) digital coincidence system based on synchronous high-speed multichannel data acquisition**Supported by National Metrology Institute of China

A dedicated 4πβ (LS) -γ (HPGe) digital coincidence system with five acquisition channels has been developed. Three ADC acquisition channels with an acquisition resolution of 8 bits and acquisition rate of 1 GSPS are utilized to collect the signals from three PMTs which are used to detect β decay, and two acquisition channels with an acquisition resolution of 16 bits and acquisition rate of 50 MSPS are utilized to collect the signals from high-purity germanium (HPGe), which is used to detect γ decay. In order to increase the accuracy of the coincidence system, all five acquisition channels are synchronous within 500 ps. The data collected by the five acquisition channels will be transmitted to the host PC through a PCI bus and saved as a file. Off-line software is utilized for the 4πβ (LS) -γ (HPGe) coincidence and data analysis as needed in practical applications. Tests of the system show that system can record pulse signals from 4πβ (LS) -γ (HPGe) synchronously for further coincidence calculation and the highest coincidence rate of the system is 20 K/s, which is sufficient for most applications. Compared with traditional coincidence modules like MAC3, the digital coincidence system has a higher flexibility of coincidence algorithm. In addition, due to the use of ADC, the structure of the coincidence system is simplified. This paper introduces the design of the hardware, the synchronization method and the test results of this system.