Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Mar 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003spie.4841.1211s&link_type=abstract
Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Iye, Masanori; Moorwood, Alan F. M.
Computer Science
Performance
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Scientific paper
We developed a new data acquisition device for COMICS, a mid infrared instrument of the Subaru telescope. The new device was installed in place of our previous data acquisition device with a lower data transfer speed. The new device is 32 bit PCI bus and PC Linux based and provides bus-master DMA transfer function. It consists of a clock pattern generator, frame memories, and an image co-adder. In order to achieve high operational efficiency for mid infrared instruments, the data handling speed is essential as well as the speed of A/D converter. The data transfer to the hard disk drive on the PC is made during acquiring the data at the rate higher than the data generation rate. As a result, we succeeded to reduce the dead time due to the data transfer procedure from 60 sec to less than 1 sec for 200 frames (64M bytes). Furthermore by replacing the host computer by a higher performance PC, the observation efficiency of COMICS was improved from 44% to 74% in the imaging mode. This PCI based data acquisition device can also be applied to the other instruments that have fast data rates.
Honda Mitsuhiko
Kataza Hirokazu
Miyata Takashi
Okamoto Yoshiko Kataza
Onaka Takashi
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