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TY - CONF AU - Isherwood, B.C. AU - Machicoane, G. ED - Machicoane, Guillaume ED - Allen, Alexa ED - Lesage, Ana ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Microcontrollers as Gate and Delay Generators for Time Resolved Measurements J2 - Proc. of ECRIS2020, East Lansing, MI, USA, 28-30 September 2020 CY - East Lansing, MI, USA T2 - International Workshop on ECR Ion Sources T3 - 24 LA - english AB - The diffusion of electrons from ECRIS plasmas results in the emission of bremsstrahlung distributions from the plasma chamber. ECRIS bremsstrahlung measurements that are both time- and energy-resolved are often challenging to perform due to the 10’s; 100’s ms timescale that the plasma evolves over. However, the advancement of low-cost microcontrollers over the last decade makes timing and gating photon spectrometers easier. We present a proof of principle measurement which uses an Arduino microcontroller as a gate-and-delay generator for a High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector. An example plot of the time-resolved bremsstrahlung spectrum, triggered by beam current variation induced by kinetic instabilities, is shown. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 57 EP - 59 KW - plasma KW - electron KW - ECR KW - ion-source KW - cyclotron DA - 2022/07 PY - 2022 SN - 2222-5692 SN - 978-3-95450-226-4 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ECRIS2020-MOZZO06 UR - https://jacow.org/ecris2020/papers/mozzo06.pdf ER -