The general purpose data acquisition system MBS

Author

Essel, H.G. ; Kurz, N.

Author_Institution

Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

475

Lastpage

478

Abstract

The GSI data acquisition system MBS (Multi Branch System) has become, since its introduction in 1994, the standard system at GSI (37 active systems+9 portable systems). It is also used at numerous outside laboratories (29 systems active). The current version MBS 2.2 will be replaced by the version 3.0, which contains three major enhancements. First, the data busses are no longer restricted to address mapped devices. It allows now also the usage of message oriented busses, like Ethernet (100 Mbit, Gigabit) or ATM. Second, a data acquisition system can now be configured with multiple event builders to increase the overall data rate on output devices. Third, a graphical user interface, written in Java has been implemented

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; MBS; Multi Branch System; data busses; general purpose data acquisition system; graphical user interface; mapped devices; message oriented busses; multiple event builders; CAMAC; Data acquisition; Ethernet networks; Fastbus; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Laboratories; Operating systems; Real time systems; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 1999. Santa Fe 1999. 11th IEEE NPSS

Conference_Location

Sante Fe, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5463-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCON.1999.842672

Filename

842672