An integrated data acquisition and analysis system at GSI

The GOOSY data acquisition and analysis system has been extended to handle experimental setups and data from heavy-ion experiments at high energies. A front-end system has been designed and built. It is a VME-based multiprocessor system connected to CAMAC and FASTBUS by a standard VME subsystem bus. The system allows preanalysis and filtering of the raw data. The architecture of the system is presented, and a status report is given. Particular attention is given to integration of the front-end processors, event processing in the front-end system, and the VME network processor. Event data transfer from VME to VAX, test procedures, experimental setup control, and software used for the VME processors are briefly considered