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Exploring MDSplus data-acquisition software and custom devices

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Title Exploring MDSplus data-acquisition software and custom devices
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GFVTH8
 
Creator Santoro, Fernando; Stillerman, Joshua; Lane Walsh, Stephen; Fredian, Thomas
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description MDSplus is a software tool designed for data acquisition, storage, and analysis of complex scientific experiments. Over the years, MDSplus has primarily been used for data management for fusion experiments. This paper demonstrates that MDSplus can be used for a much wider variety of systems and experiments. We present a step-by-step tutorial describing how to create a simple experiment, manage the data, and analyze it using MDSplus and Python. To this end, a custom example device was developed to be used as the data source. This device was built on an opensource electronic hardware platform, and it consists of a microcontroller and two sensors. We read data from these sensors, store it in MDSplus, and use JupyterLab to visualize and process it. This project and code demo are available on the GitHub site at this URL: https://github.com/santorofer/MDSplusAndCustomeDevices
 
Subject Physics
custom devices
data acquisition softwares
electronic hardwares
fusion experiments
MDSplus
open sources
Python
scientific experiments