Evaluation of IEEE 1394 serial bus for distributed data acquisition

Author

Shea, T.J. ; Mead, J.A. ; Cerniglia, P. ; Degen, C.M.

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

12-16 May 1997

Firstpage

2502

Abstract

One trend in accelerator instrumentation is the digitization of signals further upstream in the signal processing chain. In some systems, this leads to distributed data sources that must be interconnected in a standard way. IEEE 1394 Serial Bus provides a possible interconnection standard for these systems. With Serial Bus, data acquisition is implemented via memory to memory transfers within a distributed 64 bit address space. Because this functionality is provided in silicon, software overhead is significantly reduced. This technology is under evaluation for use in the RHIC position monitor system. Using this example system, the suitability of IEEE 1394 for the accelerator environment is described. Also, the results from recent tests are presented

Keywords

IEEE standards; colliding beam accelerators; data acquisition; distributed processing; high energy physics instrumentation computing; ion accelerators; nuclear electronics; storage rings; synchrotrons; IEEE 1394 serial bus; RHIC position monitor system; accelerator instrumentation; distributed data acquisition; distributed data sources; interconnection standard; memory to memory transfers; signal digitization; signal processing chain; Backplanes; Cables; Communication standards; Costs; Data acquisition; Electronics packaging; Instruments; Integrated circuit interconnections; Monitoring; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4376-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1997.751254

Filename

751254