LabView Interface for School-Network DAQ Card

Authors

• Hans Berns, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
• T. H. Burnett, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Richard Gran, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Graham Wheel, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
• R. Jeffrey Wilkes, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Daniel R. Claes, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
• Jared Kite, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• Gregory R. Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

11-14-2003

Comments

Published at arXiv:physics/0311062v1. Used by permission.

Abstract

A low-cost DAQ card has been developed for school-network cosmic ray detector projects, providing digitized data from photomultiplier tubes via a standard serial interface. To facilitate analysis of these data and to provide students with a starting point for custom readout systems, a model interface has been developed using the National Instruments LabVIEW(R) system. This user-friendly interface allows one to initialize the trigger coincidence conditions for data-taking runs and to monitor incoming or pre-recorded data sets with updating singles- and coincidence-rate plots and other user-selectable histograms.