DAQSIM: a data acquisition system simulation tool

Author

Booth, A.W. ; Botlo, M. ; Dorenbosch, J. ; Kapoor, V.S. ; Milner, E.C. ; Wang, C.C. ; Wang, E.M.

Author_Institution

Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX, USA

Volume

40

Issue

4

fYear

1993

fDate

8/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

788

Lastpage

793

Abstract

At the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (SSC) a tool for studying behavior of data acquisition (DAQ) systems has been developed. It is based on the MODSIM II object-oriented discrete-event simulation language. The tool allows system designers to evaluate alternative DAQ architectures in terms of deadtime, throughput and buffer usage etc. The user can specify dynamically the number of chips, the size of buffers, the amount of processing time at different stages, as well as the bandwidth of the links, etc., for various connection topologies. The type of input data is also user selectable, e.g., fixed-size, GEANT extracted, zero-suppressed, or random according to a number of probability distributions. DAQSIM is used to study a network of data collection circuits (DCCs) in which push and pull control strategies are compared

Keywords

data acquisition; digital simulation; physics computing; DAQSIM; MODSIM II; SSC; Superconducting Super Collider; buffer usage; data acquisition system; data collection circuits; deadtime; probability distributions; pull control; push control; simulation tool; throughput; Bandwidth; Circuit topology; Data acquisition; Data mining; Discrete event simulation; Laboratories; Network topology; Object oriented modeling; Probability distribution; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.256662

Filename

256662