A camac data acquisition system based on PC-Linux

A multi-parametric data acquisition system for Nuclear Physics experiments using camac instrumentation on a personal computer with the Linux operating system in described. The system is very reliable, inexpensive and is capable of handling event rates up to 4–6 k events/s. In the present version, the maximum number of parameters to be acquired is limited only by the number of camac modules that can be fitted in one camac crate.