• DocumentCode
    872849
  • Title

    A FASTBUS Segment Management and Interface Unit

  • Author

    Farr, W. ; Levit, L.B. ; Roush, R.

  • Author_Institution
    LeCroy Research Systems 700 South Main Street Spring Valley, New York 10977
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    217
  • Lastpage
    224
  • Abstract
    A FASTBUS Segment Management and Interface Unit is described which employs a 40 MHz discrete ECL sequencer to carry out FASTBUS operations at full FASTBUS speed (10 MHz). The unit operates as a Master or a Slave and it interfaces to other FASTBUS crates, to CAMAC or to a host computer. It may be user programmed, however, firmware within the unit allows the most common FASTBUS primitives and macros to be executed by simple calls from the host either individually or as lists.
  • Keywords
    CAMAC; Charge coupled devices; Computer interfaces; Data acquisition; Fastbus; High energy physics instrumentation computing; Instruments; Master-slave; Microprogramming; Springs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1984.4333250
  • Filename
    4333250