VMSMULTI/DA: a single process CAMAC data acquisition system for VMS

Author

Heinicke, Peter

Author_Institution

Precision Comput. Methods Inc., Warrenville, IL, USA

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

2/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

705

Lastpage

708

Abstract

A prepackaged, single-process, easy-to-use, general-purpose CAMAC-based data acquisition system, appropriate for small-scale nuclear physics experiments, is described. The package is simple enough that one individual can use it to perform both data acquisition and analysis on experiments of up to seven CAMAC crates. This package represents the latest generation of the MULTI family of data acquisition software and runs on VMS-based machines using the JORWAY 411 branch driver. Events are signaled using LAMs (look-at-me´s) and logged to disk. Various aspects of the system are discussed, including architecture, the CAMAC interface, the data acquisition interface, logging and playback, and timing

Keywords

CAMAC; data acquisition; physics computing; CAMAC interface; JORWAY 411 branch driver; LAMs; VMSMULTI/DA; architecture; data acquisition interface; data acquisition software; logging; playback; single process CAMAC data acquisition system; timing; CAMAC; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Nuclear physics; Nuclear power generation; Packaging machines; Performance analysis; Software packages; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.34531

Filename

34531