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RESEARCH PRODUCT

A fast PC-interface for synchronized sampling of digital data

A. MaccaferriN. D'amico

subject

PulsarSpace and Planetary ScienceAsynchronous communicationbusiness.industryComputer scienceMicrocomputerInterface (computing)Digital dataSampling (statistics)Astronomy and AstrophysicsData ratebusinessComputer hardware

description

We describe a high-speed interface unit for a PC-like microcomputer used for pulsar observations at the Northern Cross radiotelescope. The unit allows sampling synchronized to a master UTC clock and asynchronous output to a storage device with a peak data rate of about 2.5 MB/sec.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01580781