UNIDAQ -- A portable data-acquisition system for SSC detector R and D

Conference · Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:6577801

Fry, A ^[1]; Nomachi, M ^[2]

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1. Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
2. National Lab. for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba (Japan)

UNIDAQ is lightweight UNIX based data-acquisition system. It relies on user selection of appropriate software and hardware for the problem at hand. The software is modularized such that the user may select as much or as little as may be needed. Currently, a buffer manager, various hardware drivers, software tools and example programs make up the package. It is installed and used in applications at KEK, LBL, the University of Michigan, Indian University, the University of Toronto, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and SSCL. Performance varies depending on the platform and the event size. Typical values range from a maximum of a few hundred Hz on a Sparc 1 to several KHz using VxWorks on an MVME167.

• OSTI ID: 6577801
• Report Number(s): CONF-930640-; CODEN: IETNAE; TRN: 95-004975
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 41:1Pt1; Conference: RT '93: 8th IEEE conference on real-time computer applications in nuclear, particle and plasma physics, Vancouver (Canada), 8-11 Jun 1993; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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