FASTBUS Readout Controller card for high speed data acquisition

Conference · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:6264395

Zimmermann, S ^[1]; Areti, V H; Foster, G W; Joshi, U; Treptow, K ^[2]

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1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States) Rio Grande do Sul Univ., Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States)

This article describes a FASTBUS Readout Controller (FRC) for high speed data acquisition in FASTBUS based systems. The controller has two main interfaces: to FASTBUS and to a Readout Port. The FASTBUS interface performs FASTBUS master and slave operations at a maximum transfer rate exceeding 40 MBytes/s. The Readout Port can be adapted for a variety of protocols. Currently, it will be interfaced to a VME bus based processor with a VSB port. The on-board LR33000 embedded processor controls the readout, executing a list of operations download into its memory. It scans the FASTBUS modules and stores the data in a triple port DRAM (TPDRAM), through one of the Serial Access Memory (SAM) ports of the (TPDRAM). Later, it transfers this data to the readout port using the other SAM. The FRC also supports serial communication via RS232 and Ethernet interfaces. This device is intended for use in the data acquisition system at the Collider Detector at Fermilab. 5 refs., 3 figs.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 6264395
• Report Number(s): FNAL/C-91/290; CONF-911106-21; ON: DE92004637
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE nuclear science symposium, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 5-9 Nov 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
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FASTBUS SYSTEM
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT INTERFACES
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ON-LINE CONTROL SYSTEMS
ON-LINE SYSTEMS
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430303 - Particle Accelerators- Experimental Facilities & Equipment
990200 - Mathematics & Computers