Title :
A High Speed Data Acquisition System for Fermilab Experiments
Author :
Harding, David J. ; Kohlmeier, James A. ; Ritchie, David J. ; Filaseta, John E.
Author_Institution :
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois
Abstract :
A high rate data acquisition system has been used to record some 40 million complex events in an experiment studying the hadroproduction of charm in Fermilab´s Broad Band Neutral Beam. Event data is accumulated during the spill in large buffer memories without computer intervention through the University of Illinois Black Bin System. Between spills the memories are read by their FASTBUS ports to a PDP-11/45 for recording on magnetic tape. A sample of events is held for analysis by the program MULTI during the following spill.
Keywords :
CAMAC; Data acquisition; Event detection; Fastbus; Hardware; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic recording; Monitoring; Particle beams; Power system management;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1983.4333005
