Control system for scalable experiments at COSY

Journal Article · Wed Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 1996 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/23.486002· OSTI ID:212099

Watzlawik, K H; Brummund, N; Karnadi, M ^[1]

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1. Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (Germany). Inst. fuer Kernphysik; and others

The Data Acquisition for experiments at the KFA Juelich COoler SYnchrotron COSY is based on VME, FASTBUS, CAMAC, VICbus, Ethernet and UNIX workstations. Controller and maser, equipped with CPUs, VME CPUs and workstations are formed to a distributed processor system, in software arranged by the object oriented Experiment Message Specification (EMS) protocol according to the server client connectivity. To perform the control of various experiment arrangements, composed of different number of crates with many embedded modules, a Control System, running on workstations was developed. Configurable setup of the frontend, run control, and distribution and decoding of event data are involved in the system. Experiment customizing is performed by ASCII files in an easy manner. The software is structured by dedicated clients with OSF/Motif user interface and access to the configurable experiment database. The design and state of the control system will be presented.

• OSTI ID: 212099
• Report Number(s): CONF-950534--
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Journal Issue: 1Pt1 Vol. 43; ISSN 0018-9499; ISSN IETNAE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATOR FACILITIES
CAMAC SYSTEM
COMPUTER NETWORKS
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
COSY STORAGE RING
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
FASTBUS SYSTEM
RADIATION DETECTORS