DART : data acquisition for the next generation of Fermilab fixed target experiments

DART is the name of the data acquisition effort for Fermilab experiments taking data in the '94-'95 time frame and beyond. Its charge is to provide a common system of hardware and software, which can be easily configured and extended to meet the wide range of data acquisition requirements...

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Published in:IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) 1994-02, Vol.41 (1), p.45-51
Main Authors: OLEYNIK, G, ANDERSON, J, MEADOWS, J, MOORE, C, PORDES, R, SLIMMER, D, STREETS, J, TREVIZO, O, UDUMULA, L, VITTONE, M, VOTAVA, M, WHITE, V, APPLETON, L, GUSS, C, MAJEWSKI, A, ZIOULAS, G, BERG, D, BLACK, D, ENGELFRIED, J, FORSTER, B, FRANZEN, J, DENT, S, KWARCIANY, R
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Language:English
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430303 > Particle Accelerators-- Experimental Facilities & Equipment
ACCELERATORS
CAMAC SYSTEM
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
Computer interfaces
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
Cyclic accelerators and storage rings
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DATA PROCESSING
DESIGN
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Exact sciences and technology
Experimental methods and instrumentation for elementary-particle and nuclear physics
FASTBUS SYSTEM
FERMILAB ACCELERATOR
INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
Nuclear physics
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Physics
PROCESSING
PULSE CIRCUITS
RADIATION DETECTORS
READOUT SYSTEMS
SYNCHROTRONS 440100 > Radiation Instrumentation
TRIGGER CIRCUITS
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Summary:DART is the name of the data acquisition effort for Fermilab experiments taking data in the '94-'95 time frame and beyond. Its charge is to provide a common system of hardware and software, which can be easily configured and extended to meet the wide range of data acquisition requirements of the experiments. Its strategy is to provide incrementally functional data acquisition systems to the experiments at frequent intervals to support the ongoing DA activities of the experiments. DART is a collaborative development effort between the experimenters and the Fermilab Computing Division. Experiments collaborating in DART cover a range of requirements from 400 Kbytes/sec event readout using a single DA processor, to 200 Mbytes/sec event readout involving 10 parallel readout streams, 10 VME event building planes and greater than 1000 MIPs of event filter processing. We describe the requirements, architecture, and plans for the project and report on its current status
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/23.281454