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Title: Design of a FASTCAMAC crate controller

Conference ·
OSTI ID:577681

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-; TRN: 98:004184
Resource Relation:
Conference: 6. conference on electronics for particle physics, Chestnut Ridge, NY (United States), 28-29 May 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the sixth international conference on electronics for particle physics; Blanar, G.J.; Sumner, R.L. [eds.]; PB: 250 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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