The FINUDA data acquisition system a C/C++ DAQ based on ROOT as event monitor

Author

Cerello, P. ; Filippini, V. ; Fiore, L. ; Gianotti, P. ; Marcello, S. ; Raimondo, A.

Author_Institution

Ist. Nazionale di Fisica Nucl., Torino, Italy

Volume

45

Issue

4

fYear

1998

fDate

8/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1973

Lastpage

1977

Abstract

A parallel scalable Data Acquisition based on VME, has been developed to be used in the FINUDA experiment, scheduled to run at the DAΦNE machine at Frascati in 1998. The acquisition software runs on embedded RTPC 8067 processors using the LynxOS operating system. The read-out of event fragments is coordinated by a suitable trigger supervisor. Data read by different controllers are transported via dedicated bus to a Global Event Builder running on a PowerPC machine. Commands from and to VME processors are sent via socket based network protocols. The Online Monitor, froot, is based on an object oriented approach in the framework of the ROOT package

Keywords

data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; particle spectrometers; C/C++ data acquisition; DA Phi NE machine; FINUDA data acquisition system; LynxOS operating system; PowerPC machine; ROOT package; acquisition software; embedded RTPC 8067 processors; event fragments; event monitor; froot; global event builder; object oriented approach; socket based network protocols; trigger supervisor; Condition monitoring; Data acquisition; Detectors; Embedded software; Event detection; Laboratories; Microstrip antenna arrays; Processor scheduling; Silicon; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.710973

Filename

710973