PuMa, the first fully digital Pulsar Machine

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 91-98

  Van Haren, P C ^a   Beijaard, T D ^b   Driesens, D ^b   Kouwcnhoven, M L A ^b   Langerak, J J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DATA ACQUISITION (DAQ) SYSTEMS; PULSARS;

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0033690793     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.846124     Document Type: Article

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