Title :
What´s new with FASTBUS and what´s it done in the particle accelerator laboratories
Author :
Costrell, L. ; Dawson, W.K. ; Ponting, P.J. ; Platner, E.D. ; Paffrath, L. ; Barsotti, E.J. ; Downing, R.W. ; Ikeda, H. ; Nelson, R.O. ; Kolpakov, I. ; Gustavson, D.B. ; Walz, H.V.
Abstract :
Implementations of FASTBUS have been made in accelerator laboratories worldwide, resulting in clarifications, modifications and extensions of the specifications. Of tremendous benefit to users have been FASTBUS Standard Routines. The availability of such standard software is unique for high-speed bus systems and resulted from the involvement of hardware and software specialists in all aspects of the development. FASTBUS is the highest-performance instrumentation and data acquisition bus in existence and its development was essential to handle the outputs of detectors used with high-energy accelerators now in operation. It has been an important factor in experiments, including the Z/sup 0/ measurements at CERN, Fermilab, and SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). Also among numerous FASTBUS implementations are those for TPC (TOPAZ Time Projection) systems at KEK (Japan National Laboratory for High Energy Physics) and BNL (Brookhaven National Laboratory).<>
Keywords :
data acquisition; linear accelerators; nuclear electronics; physics computing; system buses; BNL; Brookhaven National Laboratory; CERN; FASTBUS; Fermilab; Japan National Laboratory for High Energy Physics; KEK; SLAC; Standard Routines; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; TOPAZ Time Projection; TPC; Z/sup 0/ measurements; data acquisition bus; high-energy accelerators; high-speed bus systems; particle accelerator laboratories; standard software; Data acquisition; Detectors; Fastbus; Hardware; Instruments; Laboratories; Linear accelerators; Particle accelerators; Software standards; Standards development;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0513-2
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.259049
