Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio in particle accelerators

[M Dammer]

Hi Aylons,
I have no answer here. But talking about Gnuradio and nuclear physics I
want to add my idea to your question:
Would it be possible to use Gnuradio in a (home made) Gamma Spectrometer
? These spectrometers usually work with a multichannel analyzer that
measures the pulse height coming from the detector and then sorting the
heights into bins. This is similar to the histogram GUI element found in
GRC, but the counting is accumulative until a timer or manual
interaction stops it. The big difference between SDR use and nuclear
instrumentation is that while SDR mainly works with a constant stream of
data the latter mainly deals with transient pulses.

Mark

On 23/10/13 17:14, Aylons Hazzud wrote:
> Hi, people. Anyone here has experience using Gnuradio or USRP as an
> instrumentation tool (I mean, not for actual radio transmissions)?
>
> After years studying, hobbying and working with SDR, I've just learned
> that they are very similar to particle acceleator instrumentation, in
> a very pleasant way: I was just hired to work on one, precisely
> because of the skills acquired with my SDR projects.
>
> Moreover, this particular project (Sirius, in Brasil), has adopted an
> open hardware and free software attitude, which makes the use of
> Gnuradio particularly interesting.
>
> Has anyone worked with this kind of instruments using Gnuradio? Is
> USRP a good tool for this kind of job, or you can think about any
> limitation?
>
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