Review of programmable systems associated with Fermilab experiments

Conference · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6517839

Nash, T

The design and application of programmable systems for Fermilab experiments are reviewed. The high luminosity fixed target environment at Fermilab has been a very fertile ground for the development of sophisticated, powerful triggering systems. A few of these are integrated systems designed to be flexible and to have broad application. Many are dedicated triggers taking advantage of large scale integrated circuits to focus on the specific needs of one experiment. In addition, the data acquisition requirements of large detectors, existing and planned, are being met with programmable systems to process the data. Offline reconstruction of data places a very heavy load on large general purpose computers. This offers a potentially very fruitful area for new developments involving programmable dedicated systems. Some of the present thinking at Fermilab regarding offline reconstruction processors will be described.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 6517839
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-Conf-81/39-EXP; CONF-810539-2; TRN: 81-011455
• Resource Relation: Conference: Conference on the application of microprocessors to high energy physics experiments, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 May 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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