Interfacing an optical multichannel analyser with a 16-bit microcomputer

The authors describe the hardware and software they have realized to control an optical multichannel analyzer (OMA) by a standard 16-bit microcomputer. The hardware consists of an interface card plugged into the microcomputer and connected to the OMA system. The software gives complete control over the OMA and adds powerful functions to the system, like various graphic representations of spectra taken by the OMA, storage of spectra on floppy disks, direct computation on the spectra, and a complete control of spectroscopy experiments.