CDFVME-software framework for testing VME boards

Author

Gay, C. ; Guo, Y. ; Nahn, S. ; Patrick, J. ; Vejcik, S. ; Votava, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

322

Abstract

New VME based boards are being produced for the Run II of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). These boards are being developed and tested at both Fermilab and offsite institutions. A software framework called CDFVME has been developed in which DAQ code can be easily written to control such boards in a test stand. The framework has been used to perform diagnostics at single board, multi-board, and multi-crate levels. This software framework runs on Unix, Linux and Windows NT platforms with a Java GUI communicating via LAN to multiple intelligent front end VME crates

Keywords

Java; Unix; computer equipment testing; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; network operating systems; real-time systems; satellite computers; system buses; CDF; CDFVME software framework; Collider Detector at Fermilab; DAQ code; Java GUI; LAN; Linux; Run II; Unix; VME boards testing; Windows NT platforms; data acquisition; diagnostics; local area network; multiple intelligent front end VME crates; test stand; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Detectors; Graphical user interfaces; Hardware; Java; Kernel; Packaging; Physics; Software 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.1999.842631

Filename

842631