Low-cost open-source high-frequency portable pulse counter for Raspberry Pi and its application to Xray transmission rate measurement

Zengin A. T.

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, cilt.14, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 14
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1088/1748-0221/14/11/t11004
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Control and monitor systems online, Data acquisition circuits, Digital electronic circuits, Front-end electronics for detector readout
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Affordable electronics for instrumentation play a vital role in academia since research budgets are tight nowadays. In this paper a low-cost open-source high-frequency portable Raspberry Pi-based pulse counter is presented. Although it is designed as a 2 channel counter, it can be easily modified to a 4 channel counter. It provides a relay control interface for experimental-setup integration and counts pulses up to 10 MHz frequency. Presented system is proved to be accurate by an Xray transmission rate measurement experiment.