Microcontroller interrupts for flexible control of time critical tasks in experiments with laser cooled atoms
Instrumentation and Detectors
2011-04-04 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
I detail applications of timer interrupts in a popular micro-controller family to time critical applications in laser-cooling type experiments. I demonstrate a low overhead 1-bit frequency locking scheme and a multichannel experimental sequencer using the timer-counter intterrupts to achieve accurate timing along with flexible interfaces. The general purpose nature of micro-controllers can offer unique functionality compared with commercial solutions due to the flexibility of a computer controlled interface without the poor latencies associated with computer timing.
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@article{arxiv.1104.0064,
title = {Microcontroller interrupts for flexible control of time critical tasks in experiments with laser cooled atoms},
author = {Mark Sadgrove},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.0064},
year = {2011}
}