Small Program For Fast Data Acquisition Of CAMAC And Other Devices On PC ISA bus

• Main Authors: Kodys, Peter, Broz, Jan, Dolezal, Zdenek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 17-02-2003
• Subjects: Physics - Computational Physics; Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors; Physics - Nuclear Experiment
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.nucl-ex/0302019

A new data acquisition program for personal computers with Windows operating
system has been built at Charles University van de Graaff laboratory. It allows
fast data acquisition from CAMAC and other PC interface cards using interrupt
or polling mode via several types of crate controllers, basic on-line analysis
and visualization of acquired data in graphs and histograms. The program is
written in combination of MSVC++ and ROOT macros and offers easy customization
to individual user requirements via external configuration files, without need
of recompilation. In the presented paper a detailed description of the program
concepts and features is given. Program was extensively tested with several
combinations of hardware and software, and results of the tests are shown at
the end.