Flash memory-based data acquisition system with NOBLE

Author

Nagasaka, Y. ; Miyamoto, S. ; Obata, T. ; Sakamoto, Y. ; Asai, M. ; Tamura, N. ; Kato, Y. ; Saskamoto, H. ; Ishihara, N.

Author_Institution

Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

51

Issue

5

fYear

2004

Firstpage

2069

Lastpage

2072

Abstract

Several types of board computers, such as VME, CompactPCI, and so on, are used in high energy physics experiments. They are usually used as a diskless system booted through a network. Such an architecture is easy to use once the setup is completed. However, if the network goes down, the system can no longer be started up. One of the solutions for this problem is to use an on-board flash memory device as a boot device. As the basic architecture of a flash memory-based data acquisition system, we have developed a networked on-board Linux environment (NOBLE) distribution package in order to ensure easy installation of an operating system on a flash memory device.

Keywords

Unix; computer maintenance; data acquisition; flash memories; high energy physics instrumentation computing; system buses; Compact PCI; NOBLE; VME; board computers; boot device; computer maintenance; diskless system; distributed computing; distribution package; flash memory-based data acquisition system; high energy physics experiments; networked on-board Linux environment; on-board flash memory device; operating system; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Data acquisition; Flash memory; Kernel; Linux; Operating systems; Packaging; Physics computing; Computer maintenance; data acquisition; distributed computing; operating system;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2004.832320

Filename

1344286