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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S06SA05
Title A VMEbus General-Purpose Data Acquisition System
Authors
  • A.H. Ninane, J.L. Martou, M. Nemry, F. Somers
    UCLouvain-FYNU, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Abstract We present a general-purpose, VMEbus based, multiprocessor data acquisition and monitoring system. Events, handled by a master CPU, are kept at the disposal of data storage and monitoring processes which can run on distinct processors. They access ei­ther the complete set of data or a fraction of them, minimizing the acquisition dead-time. The system is built with the VxWorka 5.0 real time kernel to which we have added device drivers for data acquisition and monitoring. The acquisition is controlled and the data are dis­played on a workstatlon. The user Interface is writ­ten in C++ and re-uses the classes of the Interviews and the NIH libraries. The communication between the control workstation and the VMEbus processors is made through SUN RPCs on an Ethernet link. The system will be used for, CAMAC based, data acquisition for nuclear physics experiments as well as for the VXI data taking with the 4π configuration (100 neutron detectors) of the Brussels-Caen-Louvain-­Strasbourg DEMON collaboration.
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Conference ICALEPCS1991
Series International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (3rd)
Location Tsukuba, Japan
Date 11-15 November 1991
Publisher JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board Cheol-on Pak (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan); Shin-ichi Kurokawa (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan); Tadahiko Katoh (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan); Kazuro Furukawa (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
Online ISBN 978-3-95450-254-7
Online ISSN 2226-0358
Received 11 November 1991
Accepted 20 November 1991
Issued 04 December 1992
DOI doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S06SA05
Pages 265-268
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