High-rate CAMAC acquisition system

Front End Camac Controller for Slac Control System

Most of the devices in the SLAC control system are accessed via interface modules in ~450 CAMAC crates. Low-cost controllers in these crates communicate via a SLAC-proprietary bit-serial protocol with 77 satellite control computers (“micros”) within the accelerator complex. A proposed upgrade replaces the existing Multibus-I implementation of the micro hardware with commercial-off-the-shelf (“C...

Rate of Information Acquisition

Camac Driver Support for Windows Nt@ and Linux@ Camac Driver Support for Windows Nt@ and Linuxs

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Multi - Hit Time - to - Amplitude Camac Module

A Multi-H% Time-to-Amplitude Module (MTAC) for the SI.AC Mark III drift chamber system has been designed to measure drift time by converting time-proportional chamber signals into analog levels, and converting the analog data by slow readout via a semi-autonomous controller in a CAMAC crate. The single width CAMAC module has 16 wire channels, each with a 4-hit capacity. An externally generated ...

A Many Antenna High Rate Wireless System

We further describe an implementation of this system that uses an array of 32 antennas to communicate with 32 single-antenna clients simultaneously on the same frequencies between 512-608 and 614-698 MHz. At close range, all 32 links achieve the full PHY data rate, both uplink and downlink, with less than 1% Block Error Rate on each link. The total system rate is 3.8 Gb/s. The system spectral e...