Data acquisition and control system for large volume plasma device
G. B. Patel, P. K. Srivastava, L. M. Awasthi, V. P. Anitha, Ganesh Ravi, P.J. Patel, Ujjwal Kumar Baruah, S. K. Mattoo · Review of Scientific Instruments · 2002
This article describes hardware and software solutions to a need which is comprised of (i) acquisition of a large volume of high speed data with multiple time scales, (ii) control of various operational parameters of device and diagnostics, and (iii) processing and management of the acquired data for a large volume plasma device. The solution relies on the base of a VXI bus and uses a standard PC with a Windows 98/NT operating system and C as the programming language. The system is networked with the existing network with the result of allowing a large data storage space of processing facilities from any terminal in the laboratory.