Data acquisition system for small to medium size experiments

Author

De Laat, C. Th A M ; Kuijer, P.G.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Phys. & Astron., Utrecht Univ., Netherlands

Volume

41

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

2/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

60

Abstract

A flexible distributed data acquisition system, for use in various small to medium scale experiments has been developed. The system can use a variety of standard host computers, among them common workstations UNIX-flavour and VAX-VMS systems, and commercial real time kernels VAXELN, VxWorks and DECElx. The software system includes modules for analysis, run control and list directed read-out functions. Communications between the various processes are done via TCP/IP sockets and/or DECNET. In this contribution the structure of the host and front-end software is explained

Keywords

data acquisition; physics computing; software engineering; DECElx; DECNET; TCP/IP sockets; UNIX; VAX-VMS; VAXELN; VxWorks; data acquisition system; front-end software; host software; list directed read-out functions; medium size experiments; run control; small experiments; Communication system control; Control system analysis; Control systems; Data acquisition; Kernel; Real time systems; Sockets; Software systems; TCPIP; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.281457

Filename

281457