CDFVME-software framework for testing VME boards

Author

Gay, C. ; Guo, Y. ; Nahn, S. ; Patrick, J. ; Vejcik, S. ; Votava, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA

Volume

47

Issue

2

fYear

2000

fDate

4/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

262

Abstract

New VME based boards are being produced for the Run II of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). These boards are being developed and tested at both Fermilab and offsite institutions. A software framework called CDFVME has been developed in which DAQ code can be easily written to control such boards in a test stand. The framework has been used to perform diagnostics at single board, multi-board, and multi-crate levels. This software framework runs on Unix, Linux and Windows NT platforms with a Java GUI communicating via LAN to multiple intelligent front end VME crates. All distributed processes are managed by a custom CORBA based software. The system has been ported to Motorola 68 K and PPC front end processors running the VxWorks real-time kernel

Keywords

computer equipment testing; data acquisition; distributed object management; high energy physics instrumentation computing; real-time systems; satellite computers; system buses; CDF; CDFVME; Collider Detector at Fermilab; VME boards; VxWorks real-time kernel; custom CORBA based software; distributed processes; front end processors; multi-board level; multi-crate level; multiple intelligent front end VME crates; single board level; software framework; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Detectors; Graphical user interfaces; Hardware; Java; Linux; Packaging; Physics; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.846159

Filename

846159