DAQSIM: A data acquisition system simulation tool

Conference · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5984781

Booth, A W; Botlo, M; Dorenbosch, J; Kapoor, V S; Milner, E C; Wang, C C; Wang, E M ^[1]

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1. Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States). Physics Research Div.

At the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (SSC) a tool for studying the behavior of data acquisition (DAQ) systems has been developed. It is based on the MODSIM II object-oriented discrete-event simulation language. The tool allows system designers to evaluate alternative DAQ architectures in terms of deadtime, throughput and buffer usage, etc.. The user can specify dynamically the number of chips, the size of buffers, the amount of processing time at different stages, as well as the bandwidth of the links, etc., for various connection topologies. The type of input data is also user selectable, e.g. fixed-size, GEANT extracted, zero-suppressed, or random according to a number of probability distributions. DAQSIM has been used to study a network of Data Collection Circuits (DCC's) in which push and pull control strategies have been compared.

• DOE Contract Number: AC35-89ER40486
• OSTI ID: 5984781
• Report Number(s): CONF-921005-; CODEN: IETNAE
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 40:4 part 1; Conference: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Orlando, FL (United States), 25-31 Oct 1992; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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