• DocumentCode
    1053857
  • Title

    A VME RISC processor farm for third level triggering

  • Author

    Duval, P.Y. ; Geralis, T. ; Montanet, F. ; Bee, C.P. ; Sacks, L.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. d´´Aix Marseille II, France
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    238
  • Lastpage
    240
  • Abstract
    The need for very fast, compact, VME-based farms of processors exists in many areas of experimental physics. Reported is a development for such a farm targeted at the requirements of the online and trigger system of the CERN experiment PS195 (CPLEAR). The system is characterized as being VME based and requiring small events (around 1 kbyte) to be processed at a high rate (greater than 1 kHz). The development was for a single chassis system, using the MIPS R3000 chip mounted on a commercially available board
  • Keywords
    nuclear electronics; physics computing; reduced instruction set computing; trigger circuits; CERN experiment PS195; CPLEAR; MIPS R3000 chip; VME RISC processor farm; VME-based farms; experimental physics; online; single chassis system; small events; third level triggering; Buffer storage; Data acquisition; Debugging; Kinematics; Mesons; Physics; Production; Protons; Reduced instruction set computing; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/23.277489
  • Filename
    277489