FATIMA-a data acquisition system for medium scale experiments

Author

Watzlawik, K.-H. ; Nellen, R. ; Nol, T. ; Karnadi, M. ; Machner, H.

Author_Institution

Inst. fuer Kernphys., Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany

Volume

39

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

158

Abstract

The data acquisition system FATIMA (FERA amplitude and time multiparameter analyzer), which utilizes CAMAC, FERA (Fast Encoding and Readout ADC System), and a VAX-Station, has been designed and built for nuclear physics experiments like subthreshold π⁰-production in heavy ion collisions. The major features of the system are fast data readout of up to 352 ADCs and/or TDCs in conjunction with data reduction, event buffering, high-speed data transfer and simple interfacing to any workstation. For online acquisition, recording, and analysis of data as well as experiment control a modular program system was developed on VAX/VMS. Data analysis comprises online sort of real and pseudo channels and graphical representation of sorted data

Keywords

CAMAC; data acquisition; nuclear electronics; physics computing; CAMAC; FATIMA; FERA amplitude and time multiparameter analyzer; Fast Encoding and Readout ADC System; VAX-Station; VAX/VMS; data acquisition system; data reduction; event buffering; fast data readout; graphical representation; heavy ion collisions; high-speed data transfer; interfacing; medium scale experiments; modular program system; nuclear physics experiments; online acquisition; pseudo channels; sorted data; workstation; CAMAC; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Event detection; Hardware; Kinetic theory; Physics; Signal generators; Voice mail; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.277475

Filename

277475