Time-of-flight mass spectrometry utilizing a split memory

The present invention relates to time-of-flight mass spectrometers. A spectrometer having a reduced memory size. The spectrometer has an address register, a detector for generating a digital measurement, first and second memories and an adder. The first memory stores data words having a value less t...

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Hauptverfasser: Hidalgo, August Jon, LeCocq, Christian A
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present invention relates to time-of-flight mass spectrometers. A spectrometer having a reduced memory size. The spectrometer has an address register, a detector for generating a digital measurement, first and second memories and an adder. The first memory stores data words having a value less than a maximum value, at the register defined address. The adder adds the data value on the data bus to the digital measurement to generate a sum value that is divided into a low order part having a value less or equal to the maximum value and an overflow value. The second memory stores at least a portion of the sum value at a location specified by the register value if the overflow value is greater than zero.