An improved data acquisition system at the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory
- Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (Canada). Saskatchewan Accelerator Lab.
An improved data acquisition system has been in service at the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory for the past 14 months. The system has shown itself to be reliable and easy to use having collected over 800 gigabytes of data for a number of experiments. The system is based on a VME front end computer acquiring data from CAMAC and FASTBUS modules and forwarding the data via an Ethernet connection to an acquisition workstation for archiving and on-line analysis. A multiprocessor real-time operating system in the front end computer makes increasing the performance of the system a simple matter of adding an additional processor to the VME chassis. Experimenters need only write a high-level description of their experiment which is transformed into a C program for the front end computer by a translation program. Special requirements are met by facilities for direct inclusion of user C or FORTRAN code.
- OSTI ID:
- 6864980
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930640-; CODEN: IETNAE; TRN: 95-004960
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 41:1Pt1; Conference: RT '93: 8th IEEE conference on real-time computer applications in nuclear, particle and plasma physics, Vancouver (Canada), 8-11 Jun 1993; ISSN 0018-9499
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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