An AS Software Complex for the Automation of Spectrometry, Part One: The Concept of a Program System Invariant with Respect to Experimental Technique

A special structure and operating algorithm for a data acquisition subsystem have been developed for spectrometric experiments in which data are buffered in the memory. Universal basic software and driver-level programs for each particular spectrometer are both used in this subsystem. It is proposed that the experimental technique be taken into account in every measurement by specifying the spectrometer-state vector in terms of the variable parameters. Without any modification, such data acquisition subsystem programs are suitable for use with different spectrometers and impose no restrictions on the application of any experimental technique. A structure has been developed for the software used in a system for automating experiments, in which it is possible to perform the preliminary (and complete) on-line mathematical processing of experimental data and to realize a mode of processing that would permit the automatic cyclic execution of such operations as editing the composition of experimental data, computing, and analyzing the results.