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A data acquisition (DAQ) system has been developed which will read out and control calorimeters serving as prototype systems for a future detector at an electron-positron linear collider. This is a modular, flexible and scalable DAQ system…

The control system (TICS) for the test interferometer being built to support the development of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)will itself be a prototype for the final ALMA array, providing a test for the distributed control…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Pokorny , M. Brooks , B. Glendenning , G. Harris , R. Heald , F. Stauffer , J. Pisano

In this paper, we describe a modular data acquisition system developed as the foundation of a cosmic ray detector network. Each detector setup (henceforth referred as a station) is composed of an independent hardware device that can be…

CuboDAQ is a custom data acquisition system to read out SiPM-based detectors. It features electronic boards to digitize the SiPMs signal, an FPGA-based system-on-module board, the connectivity to transmit the data to a central server, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-10 Ettore Zaffaroni , Guido Haefeli

New front-end electronics including ASICs and FPGA boards are under development for the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector to handle the large data rates and harsh environment expected at high-luminosity LHC runs. A mobile Data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 Yuxiang Guo , Xueye Hu , Thomas Schwarz , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

Advanced LIGO's raw detector output needs to be calibrated to compute dimensionless strain h(t). Calibrated strain data is produced in the time domain using both a low-latency, online procedure and a high-latency, offline procedure. The…

The rapid evolution of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) across various domains like mobility systems, networked control systems, sustainable manufacturing, smart power grids, and the Internet of Things necessitates innovative solutions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We present novel soft-input soft-output (SISO) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detectors based on the Chase detection principle [1] in the context of iterative and decoding (IDD). The proposed detector complexity is linear in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Ahmad Gomaa , Louay Jalloul

First Experiences Integrating PC Distributed I/O Into Argonne's ATLAS Control System The roots of ATLAS (Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System) date back to the early 1960s. Located at the Argonne National Laboratory, the accelerator has…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 F. H. Munson , D. E. R. Quock , S. L. Dean , K. J. Eder

Communication between sensors, actors and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) in industrial systems moves from two-wire field buses to IP-based protocols such as Modbus/TCP. This increases the attack surface because the IP-based network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Matthias Niedermaier , Martin Striegel , Felix Sauer , Dominik Merli , Georg Sigl

The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and study gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of gravitational waves holds the promise of testing general relativity in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , B. Abbott

The Advanced Photon Source is now in its fifth year of routine beam production. The EPICS-based [1] control system has entered the phase in its life cycle where new control algorithms must be implemented under increasingly stringent…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Dohan

This paper describes the data acquisition system used for data readout from a segmented detector of reactor antineutrinos with active shielding. Theoretical approach to the data acquisition is described and two possible solutions using QDCs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 Zdenek Hons , Jakub Vlášek

The SPring-8 control system provides data acquisition software called Poller/Collector for periodic data taking. Its polling scheme does not support taking data synchronized with an event, and simultaneity in the data from the different VME…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Masuda , T. Fukui , R. Tanaka , A. Yamashita

The DZERO experiment located at Fermilab has recently started RunII with an upgraded detector. The RunII physics program requires the Data Acquisition to readout the detector at a rate of 1 KHz. Events fragments, totaling 250 KB, are…

VERITAS employs a multi-stage data acquisition chain that extends from the VME readout of custom 500 MS/s flash ADC electronics to the construction of telescope events and ultimately the compilation of information from each telescope into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-12 VERITAS Collaboration , E. Hays

Gravitational-wave observatories around the world, including the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), record a large volume of gravitational-wave output data and auxiliary data about the instruments and their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Joseph S Areeda , Joshua R Smith , Andrew P Lundgren , Edward Maros , Duncan M Macleod , John Zweizig

We have developed, produced and characterised integrated sensors, actuators and the related read-out and drive electronics that will be used for the control of the Advanced LIGO suspensions. The overall system consists of the BOSEMs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-28 L. Carbone , S. M. Aston , R. M. Cutler , A. Freise , J. Greenhalgh , J. Heefner , D. Hoyland , N. A. Lockerbie , D. Lodhia , N. A. Robertson , C. C. Speake , K. A. Strain , A. Vecchio

The present paper describes the design of a cost effective, better resolution data acquisition system (DAS) which is compatible to most of the PC and laptops. A low cost DAS has been designed using PIC12F675 having 4-channel analog input…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-10 N. Monoranjan Singh , K. C. Sarma

Dynamo is a full-stack software solution for scientific data management. Dynamo's architecture is modular, extensible, and customizable, making the software suitable for managing data in a wide range of installation scales, from a few…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yutaro Iiyama , Benedikt Maier , Daniel Abercrombie , Maxim Goncharov , Christoph Paus