A FASTBUS Segment Management and Interface Unit

1 January 1984

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Vol. 31 (1) , 217-224
https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.1984.4333250

Abstract

A FASTBUS Segment Management and Interface Unit is described which employs a 40 MHz discrete ECL sequencer to carry out FASTBUS operations at full FASTBUS speed (10 MHz). The unit operates as a Master or a Slave and it interfaces to other FASTBUS crates, to CAMAC or to a host computer. It may be user programmed, however, firmware within the unit allows the most common FASTBUS primitives and macros to be executed by simple calls from the host either individually or as lists.

Keywords

FASTBUS
DATA ACQUISITION
CAMAC
INSTRUMENTS
MASTER-SLAVE
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS INSTRUMENTATION COMPUTING
CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES
SPRINGS
COMPUTER INTERFACES
MICROPROGRAMMING