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Published: 2011-06-30
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.53747/nst.v1i2.301
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2011)
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PHAM , N. T., NGUYEN , N. D., DANG , L., TUONG , T. T. H., NGUYEN , V. H., NGUYEN , D. H., & NGUYEN , A. S. (2011). DSP-BASED SPECTROMETER FOR γ-RAY MEASUREMENT AND DETECTION. Nuclear Science and Technology, 1(2), 37-43. https://doi.org/10.53747/nst.v1i2.301

DSP-BASED SPECTROMETER FOR γ-RAY MEASUREMENT AND DETECTION

PHAM NGOC TUAN1, NGUYEN NHI DIEN1, DANG LANH1, TUONG THI THU HUONG1, NGUYEN VAN HUNG2, NGUYEN DUC HOA3, NGUYEN AN SON3
1 Nuclear Research Institute, 01 Nguyen Tu Luc, DaLat
2 Nuclear Research Institute, 01 Nguyen Tu Luc, DaLa
3 University of Dalat, 01 Phu Dong Thien Vuong, DaLat

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Abstract

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is the advanced method for data processing coming from radiation detectors. A spectrometer for gamma detection was designed and used for nuclear physics experiments. All components of the spectrometer were designed, synthesized and created in one Xilinx FPGA device. The firmware was written in C-compiler from Keil, and the application software was written in LabView. The designed spectrometer is able to interface to PC through USB port, owning to EZ-USB device.

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moving average window, FPGA, VHDL, EZ-USB

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