ACQUIRE: a data acquisition system for CAMAC on SUN workstations

Author

Kouzes, Richard T.

Author_Institution

Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA

Volume

41

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

2/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

144

Abstract

The data acquisition software package ACQUIRE has been used for many years by the Princeton University Cyclotron Laboratory for nuclear physics research applications. This code has been ported to the SUN Sparc workstation and is fully functional, including block data transfers using an in crate Event Handler. A SCSI interface to CAMAC is utilized, and the device handling software has been developed in such a way that little modification was needed in the ACQUIRE code for the SUN implementation. The Higz X windows graphics package from CERN is used for data display. ACQUIRE will be used for test and development of CAMAC based systems within the Molecular Science Research Center at Pacific Northwest Laboratory

Keywords

CAMAC; data acquisition; physics computing; software packages; workstations; ACQUIRE; CAMAC; Higz X windows graphics; SCSI interface; SUN Sparc workstation; SUN workstations; block data transfers; data acquisition software package; data display; nuclear physics research; Application software; CAMAC; Cyclotrons; Data acquisition; Graphics; Laboratories; Nuclear physics; Software packages; Sun; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.281476

Filename

281476