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

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.