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

fYear

1992

fDate

25-31 Oct 1992

Firstpage

485

Abstract

At the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, a tool for studying the behavior of data acquisition (DAQ) systems has been developed. It is based on the MODSIM object-oriented discrete-event simulation language. The tool allows system designers to evaluate alternative DAQ architectures in terms of deadtime, throughput, buffer usage, etc. The user can specify dynamically the number of chips, the size of buffers, the amount of processing time at different stages, 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 has been used to study a network of data collection circuits in which `push´ and `pull´ control strategies have been compared

Keywords

data acquisition; physics computing; software tools; DAQSIM; MODSIM; SSC; Superconducting Super Collider; buffers; data acquisition system; data collection circuits; input data; simulation tool; Bandwidth; Circuit topology; Data acquisition; Data mining; Discrete event simulation; Laboratories; Network topology; Object oriented modeling; Probability distribution; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0884-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301303

Filename

301303