Control system for scalable experiments at COSY

Journal Article · Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 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-; ISSN 0018-9499; TRN: 96:009891
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 43, Issue 1Pt1; Conference: Conference on real-time computer applications in nuclear, particle and plasma physics (RT), East Lansing, MI (United States), 22-26 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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