Fractional channel multichannel analyzer

Patent · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:869463

Brackenbush, Larry W ^[1]; Anderson, Gordon A ^[2]

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1. Richland, WA
2. Benton City, WA

A multichannel analyzer incorporating the features of the present invention obtains the effect of fractional channels thus greatly reducing the number of actual channels necessary to record complex line spectra. This is accomplished by using an analog-to-digital converter in the asynscronous mode, i.e., the gate pulse from the pulse height-to-pulse width converter is not synchronized with the signal from a clock oscillator. This saves power and reduces the number of components required on the board to achieve the effect of radically expanding the number of channels without changing the circuit board.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5340990
• OSTI ID: 869463
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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