CIWS-FW: a Customizable InstrumentWorkstation Software Framework for instrument-independent data handling
Abstract
The CIWS-FW is aimed at providing a common and standard solution for the storage, processing and quick look at the data acquired from scientific instruments for astrophysics. The target system is the instrument workstation either in the context of the Electrical Ground Support Equipment for space-borne experiments, or in the context of the data acquisition system for instrumentation. The CIWS-FW core includes software developed by team members for previous experiments and provides new components and tools that improve the software reusability, configurability and extensibility attributes. The CIWS-FW mainly consists of two packages: the data processing system and the data access system. The former provides the software components and libraries to support the data acquisition, transformation, display and storage in near real time of either a data packet stream and/or a sequence of data files generated by the instrument. The latter is a meta-data and data management system, providing a reusable solution for the archiving and retrieval of the acquired data. A built-in operator GUI allows to control and configure the IW. In addition, the framework provides mechanisms for system error and logging handling. A web portal provides the access to the CIWS-FW documentation, software repository and bug tracking tools for CIWS-FW developers. We will describe the CIWS-FW architecture and summarize the project status.
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@article{arxiv.1405.7255,
title = {CIWS-FW: a Customizable InstrumentWorkstation Software Framework for instrument-independent data handling},
author = {Vito Conforti and Massimo Trifoglio and Andrea Bulgarelli and Fulvio Gianotti and Enrico Franceschi and Luciano Nicastro and Andrea Zoli and Mauro Dadina and Ricky Smart and Roberto Morbidelli and Marco Frailis and Stefano Sartor and Andrea Zacchei and Marcello Lodi and Roberto Cirami and Fabio Pasian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7255},
year = {2014}
}
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Accepted for pubblication on ADASS Conference Series