Title :
CAMAC driver support for Windows NT(R) and Linux(R)
Author :
Slimmer, D.A. ; Street, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA
Abstract :
CAMAC is a Modular Instrumentation and Digital Interface System defined as a standardized instrumentation system for Computer Automated Measurement and Control. CAMAC hardware and software has been defined by the NIM Committee (National Instrumentation Methods Committee) of the U.S. Department of Energy and the ESONE Committee (European Standards on Nuclear Electronics Committee) of European Laboratories. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has for many years produced software packages that follow the ANSI/IEEE standard 758-1979 for a variety of computers, CAMAC controller interfaces, and operating systems. In order to enable the re-use of existing hardware and software, Fermilab now supports standard routine libraries and drivers for Windows NT 4.0 and the Linux operating systems for the Jorway 411S SCSI Bus CAMAC Driver and the Jorway73A SCSI bus CAMAC Crate Controller. A number of test stands and small experiments both on-site and off-site are using this software for their CAMAC data acquisition needs
Keywords :
CAMAC; Unix; high energy physics instrumentation computing; CAMAC controller interfaces; CAMAC data acquisition needs; CAMAC driver support; Computer Automated Measurement and Control; Jorway 411S SCSI Bus CAMAC Driver; Jorway73A SCSI bus CAMAC Crate Controller; Linux; Modular Instrumentation and Digital Interface System; Windows NT; standard routine libraries; ANSI standards; CAMAC; Control systems; Hardware; Instruments; Laboratories; Nuclear electronics; Operating systems; Software packages; Software standards;
Conference_Titel :
Real Time Conference, 1999. Santa Fe 1999. 11th IEEE NPSS
Conference_Location :
Sante Fe, NM
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5463-X
DOI :
10.1109/RTCON.1999.842645