Title :
A VME RISC processor farm for third level triggering
Author :
Duval, P.Y. ; Geralis, T. ; Montanet, F. ; Bee, C.P. ; Sacks, L.E.
Author_Institution :
Univ. d´´Aix Marseille II, France
fDate :
4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The need for very fast, compact, VME-based farms of processors exists in many areas of experimental physics. Reported is a development for such a farm targeted at the requirements of the online and trigger system of the CERN experiment PS195 (CPLEAR). The system is characterized as being VME based and requiring small events (around 1 kbyte) to be processed at a high rate (greater than 1 kHz). The development was for a single chassis system, using the MIPS R3000 chip mounted on a commercially available board
Keywords :
nuclear electronics; physics computing; reduced instruction set computing; trigger circuits; CERN experiment PS195; CPLEAR; MIPS R3000 chip; VME RISC processor farm; VME-based farms; experimental physics; online; single chassis system; small events; third level triggering; Buffer storage; Data acquisition; Debugging; Kinematics; Mesons; Physics; Production; Protons; Reduced instruction set computing; Testing;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
