Journal of Nuclear Science, Engineering and Technology (JONSAT)
In cooperation with the Iranian Nuclear Society

Design and construction of a two-channel data acquisition system for random processes based on FPGA

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mohammad Arkani
Hossein Khalafi
Naser Vosoughi
Samad Khakshournia
Abstract
 In this work, a useful equipment for recording and analysing of random processes was developed based on field programmable gate array (FPGA). The system covers a range of different applications in the nuclear fields of study. The system is potentially applicable for zero power reactor noise analysis, time coincidence of stochastic events, dead time estimation, and probability distribution function of random processes. The designed and constructed system was tested and validated by generated pseudorandom processes. Some of the basic analysing methods of random processes were checked and verified experimentally. As the performance of the system depends on the hardware, the designed architecture is implemented on a typical system. The best performance is reported in the text.
 

Keywords

Two-channel data acquisition system
Stochastic process
Field Programmable gate array (FPGA)
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Journal of Nuclear Science, Engineering and Technology (JONSAT)
Volume 36, Issue 2 - Serial Number 72
September 2015
Pages 29-38

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