A high speed fiber optic serial networking system for data acquisition and control

Conference · Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1990 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA)

OSTI ID:6607415

Skegg, R ^[1]

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1. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)

A serial ring communication system is described which may be used to link data acquisition and control devices and, via suitable interconnects, other serial rings, FASTBUS segments and CAMAC crates. The protocol used is transparent to FASTBUS and contains very little management overhead. The system has applications from simply linking two closely spaced devices to interconnecting many FASTBUS and CAMAC systems in a wide area network. Performance calculations are presented showing the effects of varying the link bit-rate, the link distance and the number of connected devices.

• OSTI ID: 6607415
• Report Number(s): CONF-900143-; CODEN: IETNA; TRN: 90-031667
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA), Vol. 37:2; Conference: Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium, San Francisco, CA (USA), 15-19 Jan 1990; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
CAMAC SYSTEM
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
FASTBUS SYSTEM
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
FIBER OPTICS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
TESTING
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