Title :
Version 2 of RSXMULTI
Author :
Heinicke, P. ; Constanta-Fanourakis, P. ; Constanta-Fanourakis, P. ; Heinicke, P. ; Quigg, E.K. ; Berg, D.
Author_Institution :
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Il. 60510
Abstract :
MULTI is a general purpose, high speed, high energy physics interface to data acquisition and data investigation system that runs on PDP-11 and VAX architecture. This paper describes the latest version of MULTI, which runs under RSX-11M version 4.1 and supports a modular approach to the separate tasks that interface to it, allowing the same system to be used in single CPU test beam experiments as well as multiple interconnected CPU, large scale experiments. MULTI uses CAMAC (IEE-583) for control and monitoring of an experiment, and is written in FORTRAN-77 and assembler. The design of this version, which simplified the interface between tasks, and eliminated the need for a hard to maintain homegrown I/O system is also discussed.
Keywords :
Algorithms; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Displays; Histograms; Laboratories; Operating systems; System testing; User interfaces;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1985.4333611