What`s new with FASTBUS and what`s it done in the particle accelerator laboratories

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:10110080

Costrell, L ^[1]; Dawson, W K ^[2]; Ponting, P J ^[3]; Platner, E D; Paffrath, L ^[4]; Barsotti, E J ^[5]; Downing, R W ^[6]; Ikeda, H ^[7]; Nelson, R O ^[8]; Kolpakov, I ^[9]; Gustavson, D B; Walz, H W ^[10]

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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 (United States)
6. Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL (United States)
7. National Lab. for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
8. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
9. Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research, Dubna (USSR)
10. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)

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.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 10110080
• Report Number(s): BNL-46750; CONF-911106-53; ON: DE92005002
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference,Santa Fe, NM (United States),2-9 Nov 1991; Other Information: PBD: [1991]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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