A VME-Macintosh data acquisition system with ECL readout

Author

Anzalone, A. ; Manno, C. M Iacono ; Ferrera, F. ; Barbagallo, G. ; Cali, C. ; Yingmei, Gu ; Giustolisi, F.

Author_Institution

Lab. Nazionali del Sud, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucl., Catania, Italy

Volume

41

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

2/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

76

Abstract

A new data acquisition system has been developed at LNS to match the experimental request of handling hundreds of parameters and spectra with an input event frequency of a few kHz. Both the traditional CAMAC and a new faster ECL readout dataways are supported. To enhance the system flexibility three different kinds of CAMAC ADCs can be used (GAN´ELEC QDC1612F, FERA 4300B, SILENA ADC4418/V). Two HSM8170 interfaces are adopted between the ECLbus and the VMEbus as ECL-VME buffers. An EXB-8200 tape unit is connected to the system for off-line processing data storage

Keywords

Apple computers; CAMAC; data acquisition; emitter-coupled logic; physics computing; software engineering; system buses; CAMAC ADCs; ECL readout; EXB-8200 tape unit; FERA 4300B; GAN´ELEC QDC1612F; HSM8170 interfaces; LNS; Macintosh; SILENA ADC4418/V; VME; data acquisition system; Algorithms; CAMAC; Data acquisition; Detectors; Event detection; Frequency; Hardware; Laboratories; Memory; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.281459

Filename

281459