Applications of FASTBUS to beam diagnostics and experiment data systems

Conference · Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5507289

Machen, D R

A five-year effort by the North American NIM Committee, in collaboration with the ESONE Committee of European Laboratories, has resulted in a specification for the FASTBUS modular high-speed data-acquisition system. The system is designed around an emitter-coupled logic (ECL) 32-bit data bus for asynchronous data transmission at 100 ns per transaction. Initial applications of FASTBUS will be in experiment data systems at accelerator facilities worldwide--beam diagnostic data systems on the accelerator side and particle-beam experiment data systems in the experimental area. As the specification (and the resulting hardware and software) matures, real-time machine-control applications will become possible. This paper discusses the near-term use of FASTBUS in accelerator beam-diagnostics instrumentation systems, where an extra increment in system throughput and front-end processing speed can produce a greater understanding of the physical phenomena under study. The arguments and conclusions may be equally well applied to other similar data-handling problems requiring high bandwidth in the data system.

• Research Organization: Scientific Systems Int.'l, Los Alamos, NM 87544
• OSTI ID: 5507289
• Report Number(s): CONF-830311-; TRN: 84-001704
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States), Vol. NS-30:4; Conference: Particle accelerator conference, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 21 Mar 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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