Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio in particle accelerators

[Aylons Hazzud]

2013/10/23 M Dammer <address@hidden>:
> I have no answer here. But talking about Gnuradio and nuclear physics I
> want to add my idea to your question:
> Would it be possible to use Gnuradio in a (home made) Gamma Spectrometer
> ? These spectrometers usually work with a multichannel analyzer that
> measures the pulse height coming from the detector and then sorting the
> heights into bins. This is similar to the histogram GUI element found in
> GRC, but the counting is accumulative until a timer or manual
> interaction stops it. The big difference between SDR use and nuclear
> instrumentation is that while SDR mainly works with a constant stream of
> data the latter mainly deals with transient pulses.

Interesting.

But, is GnuRadio needed for it? The pulse height coming from the
detector is a pulsed high-frequency signal, or just a width-modulated
square wave?