DART-data acquisition for the next generation of Fermilab fixed target experiments

Author

Oleynik, G. ; Anderson, J. ; Appleton, L. ; Berg, D. ; Black, D. ; Engelfried, J. ; Forster, B. ; Franzen, J. ; Kent, S. ; Kwarciany, R. ; Meadows, J. ; Moore, C. ; Pordes, R. ; Slimmer, D. ; Streets, J. ; Trevizo, O. ; Udumula, L. ; Vittone, M. ; Votava,

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

41

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

2/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

51

Abstract

DART is the name of the data acquisition effort for Fermilab experiments taking data in the ´94-´95 time frame and beyond. Its charge is to provide a common system of hardware and software, which can be easily configured and extended to meet the wide range of data acquisition requirements of the experiments. Its strategy is to provide incrementally functional data acquisition systems to the experiments at frequent intervals to support the ongoing DA activities of the experiments. DART is a collaborative development effort between the experimenters and the Fermilab Computing Division. Experiments collaborating in DART cover a range of requirements from 400 Kbytes/sec event readout using a single DA processor, to 200 Mbytes/sec event readout involving 10 parallel readout streams, 10 VME event building planes and greater than 1000 MIPs of event filter processing. We describe the requirements, architecture, and plans for the project and report on its current status

Keywords

data acquisition; parallel architectures; physics computing; software engineering; DART; Fermilab fixed target experiments; architecture; data acquisition; event building; event filter processing; parallel readout; software; Buildings; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Event detection; Hardware; Laboratories; Power filters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.281454

Filename

281454