Design and development of an ethernet interfaced remote control system for pulse shape discriminator

In neutron spectroscopic measurements, most common electronics is the pulse shape discriminator (PSD). Neutron and gamma induced events can be discriminated according to their pulse shapes using PSD module. Commercial make PSD modules like Fast comtec 2160A and also some custom made PSD modules are manually controlled. To obtain a high duty cycle in an ongoing experiment with beam, remote control operation of electronic module is required. Although, mesytec make PSD module named MPD-4 is remotely controllable but this requires minicom software along with a USB connection. An Arduino based ethernet interfaced remote control system for a PSD is designed, developed and tested which is presented in this paper