A general firewire data acquisition platform applied to SPECT

Author

Rillbert, A. ; Habte, F. ; Stenström, P. ; Bohm, C. ; Larsso, S.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Stockholm Univ., Sweden

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

489

Abstract

A sub-system that provides the low-level interface to the IEEE 1394 serial bus (Firewire) has been developed. It is intended to be used as a component providing communication and distributed computing in a data acquisition or control system. IEEE 1394 has a flexible topology and provides large bandwidth capabilities to a system. The platform developed consists of a custom made DSP board executing software that manages the bus protocol and provides an environment for executing data processing or control algorithms. Software running in a PC that encapsulates the low-level API to a Firewire/PCI bridge card is also part of the platform

Keywords

IEEE standards; application program interfaces; data acquisition; digital signal processing chips; distributed processing; physics computing; single photon emission computed tomography; system buses; Firewire/PCI bridge card; IEEE 1394; IEEE 1394 serial bus; PC; SPECT; bus protocol; control algorithms; control system; custom made DSP board; data acquisition; data processing; distributed computing; general firewire data acquisition platform; large bandwidth capabilities; low-level API; low-level interface; Bandwidth; Communication system control; Control systems; Data acquisition; Digital signal processing; Distributed computing; Environmental management; Firewire; Software development management; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium, 1999. Conference Record. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5696-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1999.842533

Filename

842533