NDLI: The XSYS Data Acquisition System at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gould, C. R. Holzsweig, L. G. King, S. E. Lau, Y. C. Poore, R. V. Roberson, N. R. Wender, S. A.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	We have described a general purpose data acquisition and analysis system for the VAX 11/780. The system runs under VMS and uses commercially available hardware for the bulk of the interface. The code is written almost exclusively in Fortran and uses many software components and ideas from other laboratories. All users share common versions of applications tasks, reducing problems associated with program proliferation and documentation.All event sorting is performed by the event analysis language EVAL. Singles data rates of about 70 KHz use about a third of the available CPU time. This has little or no impact on the response time for the other off-line users. Taking over work from an other facility is a convenient and fast way of implementing a data acquisition system when the computer and interface are identical. This was the case for us with the MBD software and the graphics software. If the hardware configuration is different, however, implementation may be difficult unless one of the programmers is very familiar with the system being installed. The key parts of our system, EVAL and the Z-like data structures, did require modification. They were developed during a three month visit by one of the authors (RVP). Once these foundations were laid, the work of writing the full system could be spread around a number of people. We estimate about 1.5 man years of effort in our system to date.
Sponsorship	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. APS College of William and Mary Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility NASA Defence Nuclear Agency Sandia National Laboratories Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab IEEE/NPPS Radiat. Effects Committee Defence Nuclear Agency/DoD Sandia National Laboratories/DOE Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Phillips Lab./DoD
Starting Page	3708
Ending Page	3714
Page Count	7
File Size	949336
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	28
Issue Number	5
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1981-10-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Data acquisition Educational institutions Laboratories Hardware Data analysis Voice mail Application software Sorting Performance analysis Delay
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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