Design of a FASTCAMAC crate controller

Conference · Wed Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:577681

Radway, T; Hubbard, C

FASTCAMAC is an extension of the CAMAC standard providing a high speed block transfer protocol which can increase the CAMAC transfer rate to as high as 60 megabytes per second. It offers the capability of highspeed data transfers where conventional CAMAC was though to be too slow. FASTCAMAC is completely compatible with standard CAMAC. Old and new FASTCAMAC modules can be mixed in the same crate. The initial work on FASTCAMAC was supported by a USDOE STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) grant to Jorway Corporation, LeCroy Corporation and Yale University. This paper describes a design implementation for a CAMAC crate controller which supports normal as well as FASTCAMAC operations for Level 1 and Level 2, 32 and 48 bit dataway transfer widths, and Multiple Module Transfers. The controller bus port is Fast Wide SCSI with transfer rates to 40 megabytes per second.

• OSTI ID: 577681
• Report Number(s): CONF-970565--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
CAMAC SYSTEM
DESIGN
ELECTRIC CONTROLLERS
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS