PESCA Instrument Digital Electronics and Control System
Abstract
The PESCA Instrument has been designed and built with the purpose of studying the Solar Energetic Particles and the Anomalous Cosmic Rays from hydrogen to iron in the energy range 1.5-50 MeV/uma. The instrument will be part of the Russian PHOTON satellite payload. The instrument electronics system comprises two blocks: the analog block for the amplification process and the digital block for the data acquisition process. The hardware is based on MAS281 microprocessor and consists of two units, nominal and redundant, in order to prevent faults. The software and hardware control system are described.
- Publication:
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26th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC26), Volume 5
- Pub Date:
- 1999
- Bibcode:
- 1999ICRC....5..179P