2 6 Ju n 20 09 A computer program for testing equipment control and data acquisition
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The software application described in this work aims to help with one of the main issues in experimental physics, the automation of data acquisition and equipment control. This software application, designated as SCTE, was written in Perl and uses the SCPI language to communicate with test instruments. The communication goes through RS-232 port, also known as serial port, vastly available in current generation PCs and testing equipment. Although the RS-232 port has been used here, SCTE may be easily adapted to work with USB or any other kinds of ports. SCTE enables the simultaneous control of several test equipment of different functionalities, like oscilloscopes and signal generators, in order to automate an entire experiment. This program has been used to calibrate a new set of devices for power determination, part of the Alfvén wave heating system of the tokamak TCABR.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009