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News Release
CONNECTIONS Adds EtherNIMS: MCAs for
Networked Nuclear Spectroscopy Three EtherNIMs™, new MCA
hardware, join ORTEC's millennium-ready CONNECTIONS family. Designed for
applications as diverse as environmental and waste assay measurements, stack monitors,
nuclear process control measurements, and nuclear safeguards -- EtherNIMs provide in NIM
format, direct Ethernet connection of spectroscopy amplifier chains supporting detectors
as different as NaI(Tl), HPGe, ion-implanted Si, or CZT.
An EtherNIM is a complete Multichannel buffer with computer-controlled
ADC, gate, and presets, as well as nonvolatile data memory. EtherNIMs operate with the
latest ORTEC CONNECTIONS-32 millennium-ready software application packages under
Windows®; 95 or NT. Software toolkits assist the
"do-it-yourself" applications developer.
The Model 920E EtherNIM is optimized for silicon charged-particle or NaI
detectors in low-count-rate situations, such as environmental-laboratory sample screening
by alpha or gamma spectroscopy. With 16 inputs and independent start/stop/preset
control/conversion gain/offset, it connects to the internal ADC via a high-speed
multiplexer/router.
The Model 919E, intended for low- to moderate-count rates with NaI and/or
Ge detectors for smaller counting laboratories which need economical support for mixed
detector types, provides 4 inputs and independent start/stop/preset control/conversion
gain. Also included are highly accurate live-time control and pilup reject (PUR)
circuitry. Inputs connect to an internal ADC via a high-speed multiplexer/router.
The single-input, ultra-high-rate Model 921E accepts input count rates
>1 million per second and delivers throughput as great as 100,000 counts/sec. It is
ideal for Ge detectors in ultra-high-rate situations such as in-stack monitors, process
monitors, safeguards, and post-accident systems. |
