A RISC/UNIX workstation second stage trigger

Author

Foreman, W.M. ; Amann, J.F. ; Fu, S. ; Kozlowski, T. ; Naivar, F.J. ; Oothoudt, M.A. ; Shelley, F.E.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

39

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

254

Abstract

Recent advances in reduced-instruction-set computer (RISC) workstations have greatly altered the economics of processing power available for experiments. In addition, VME interfaces available for many of these workstations make it possible to use them in experiment front ends for filtering and compressing data. Such a second-stage trigger has been implemented at LAMPF (Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility) using a commercially available workstation and VME interface. The implementation is described, and measurements of data transfer speeds are presented

Keywords

Unix; nuclear electronics; physics computing; reduced instruction set computing; trigger circuits; Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility; LAMPF; RISC/UNIX workstation second stage trigger; VME interfaces; data transfer speeds; filtering; front ends; processing power; reduced-instruction-set computer; Contracts; Data acquisition; Ethernet networks; Fastbus; Logic; Partial response channels; Read-write memory; Reduced instruction set computing; US Department of Energy; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.277492

Filename

277492