Development and application of General Purpose Data Acquisition Shell (GPDAS) at Advanced Photon Source

Author

Chung, Youngjoo ; Kim, Keeman

Author_Institution

Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

6-9 May 1991

Firstpage

1299

Abstract

An operating system shell, named GPDAS (General Purpose Data Acquisition Shell), on MS-DOS-based microcomputers has been developed to provide flexibility in data acquisition and device control for magnet measurements at the Advanced Photon Source. GPDAS is both a command interpreter and an integrated script-based programming environment. It also incorporates the MS-DOS shell to make use of the existing utility programs for file manipulation and data analysis. Features include: alias definition, virtual memory, windows, graphics, data and procedure backup, background operation, script programming language, and script level debugging. Data acquisition system devices can be controlled through the IEEE488 board, a multifunction input/output (I/O) board, a digital I/O board and a Gespac crate via a Euro G-64 bus. GPDAS is now being used for diagnostics R&D and accelerator physics studies as well as for magnet measurements. The hardware configurations are discussed.<>

Keywords

computerised control; data acquisition; microcomputer applications; nuclear electronics; physical instrumentation control; physics computing; storage rings; synchrotrons; APS; Advanced Photon Source; Euro G-64 bus; GPDAS; General Purpose Data Acquisition Shell; Gespac crate; IEEE488 board; MS-DOS-based microcomputers; accelerator physics; alias definition; background operation; command interpreter; data analysis; device control; digital I/O board; file manipulation; graphics; hardware configurations; integrated script-based programming environment; magnet measurements; multifunction input/output; procedure backup; script level debugging; script programming language; utility programs; virtual memory; windows; Control systems; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Graphics; Magnetic devices; Microcomputers; Operating systems; Optical control; Programming environments; Utility programs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0135-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1991.164613

Filename

164613