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Title: What's new with FASTBUS and what's it done in the particle accelerator laboratories

Abstract

The FASTBUS modular high-speed data acquisition and control system has been described in earlier papers. Implementations have since been made in accelerator laboratories world-wide resulting in clarifications, modifications and extensions. Of tremendous benefit to users have been FASTBUS Standard Routines. The availability of such standard software is unique for high speed bus systems and resulted from the involvement of hardware and software specialists in all aspects of the development. FASTBUS is the highest performance instrumentation and data acquisition bus in existence and its development was essential to handle the outputs of detectors used with high energy accelerators now in operation. It has been an important factor in recent experiments, including the Z{sup 0} measurements at CERN, Fermilab and SLAC. Also among numerous FASTBUS implementations are those for TPC systems at KEK and BNL. 2 refs., 5 figs.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]; ;  [4];  [5]
  1. National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
  2. British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada). TRIUMF Facility
  3. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
  4. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
  5. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6061518
Report Number(s):
BNL-46750; CONF-911106-53
ON: DE92005002
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: IEEE nuclear science symposium, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 5-9 Nov 1991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; ACCELERATOR FACILITIES; FASTBUS SYSTEM; COST; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR; 430303* - Particle Accelerators- Experimental Facilities & Equipment

Citation Formats

Costrell, L, Dawson, W K, Ponting, P J, Platner, E D, Paffrath, L, and Barsotti, E J. What's new with FASTBUS and what's it done in the particle accelerator laboratories. United States: N. p., 1991. Web.
Costrell, L, Dawson, W K, Ponting, P J, Platner, E D, Paffrath, L, & Barsotti, E J. What's new with FASTBUS and what's it done in the particle accelerator laboratories. United States.
Costrell, L, Dawson, W K, Ponting, P J, Platner, E D, Paffrath, L, and Barsotti, E J. 1991. "What's new with FASTBUS and what's it done in the particle accelerator laboratories". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6061518.
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abstractNote = {The FASTBUS modular high-speed data acquisition and control system has been described in earlier papers. Implementations have since been made in accelerator laboratories world-wide resulting in clarifications, modifications and extensions. Of tremendous benefit to users have been FASTBUS Standard Routines. The availability of such standard software is unique for high speed bus systems and resulted from the involvement of hardware and software specialists in all aspects of the development. FASTBUS is the highest performance instrumentation and data acquisition bus in existence and its development was essential to handle the outputs of detectors used with high energy accelerators now in operation. It has been an important factor in recent experiments, including the Z{sup 0} measurements at CERN, Fermilab and SLAC. Also among numerous FASTBUS implementations are those for TPC systems at KEK and BNL. 2 refs., 5 figs.},
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