The FASTBUS Cable Segment

Applicability of the Fastbus Standard

The new FASTBUS standard has been designed to provide a framework for distributed processing in both experimental data acquisition and accelerator control. The features of FASTBUS which support distributed control are a priority arbitration scheme which allows intercrate as well as intracrate message flow between processors and slave devices; and a high bandwidth to permit efficient sharing of ...

Fastbus at the Front End

It is this author's view that we are in an era of great change in electronic equipment for high energy physics. Microprocessors and their cousins, the smart controllers, being incorporated in many designs. We are also now seeing devices such as FPLA's, PAL'S, etc. becoming larger, faster, and more useful in replacing large amounts of "discrete" logic. On our doorstep are gate-arrays of all type...

(1) an Introduction to the Fastbus’

Status of the Fastbus Standard Data

FASTBUS is a new laboratory standard data bus intended for use in experimental data acquisition and control. The development of FASTBUS began with a feasibility study in 1976 and is presently at the development prototyping stage. The principal aims of the standard are to provide a factor of ten or more improvement in speed of data transfers over present systems, as well as to provide an archite...

To the Fastbus Standard Data Bus

The FASTBUS standard data bus is a development of the US NIM' Committee of the National Bureau of Standards. Although originally conceived to provide an upgraded framework for the high data rate experimental apparatus of nuclear particle physics, the system is designed with sufficient generality to support a broad range of data acquisition as well as control applications. FASTBUS is based on an...