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Abstract
CAMAC is a Modular Instrumentation and Digital Interface System defined as a standardized instrumentation system for Computer Automated Measurement and Control. The system features a fully specified data highway together with modular functional units that are completely compatible and that are available from diverse sources.
The software available here are divided into two categories:
CAMAC Diagnostics Software
The following are diagnostics written in National Instruments
LabVIEW 6i (6.02) for testing various CAMAC modules. These diagonistics
can be used as a guide for writing programs in LabVIEW for CAMAC instrumentation.
The diagnostics are written to use the Jorway 73A SCSI CAMAC controller.
Included for each module are the following:
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Executable program compiled under Win NT 4.0
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Source Code, distributed as a .LLB. This allows the user to import
to their own version of LabVIEW for use on other platforms, or to view
or modify the diagnostic code
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Readme.html file that describes the additional test modules and connections
required for using the diagnostic
To run the executable programs under Win NT 4.0, the user will need to
perform a one-time installation and setup procedure to ensure their system
has the necessary hardware and files. Please read the following
CAMAC LabVIEW diagnostics setup information.
CAMAC Controller software
CAMAC hardware and software has been defined by the NIM Committee
(National Instrumentation Methods Committee) of the U.S. Department of
Energy and the ESONE Committee (European Standards on Nuclear Electronics
Committee) of European Laboratories. The software packages that we present
here follow the ANSI/IEEE Standard 758-1979. These subroutines have been
in use at Fermilab for many years, originally with UNIBUS and QBUS
computers. The CAMAC product has been implemented to enable re-use of existing
CAMAC hardware and software under the LINUX and VxWorks operating systems.
Under LINUX the following CAMAC interfaces are supported:
sjyLX
- Jorway 411 SCSI to Serial and Parallel CAMAC interface and the Jorway
Model 73A SCSI Bus CAMAC Crate Controller.
lvsjy
- Jorway 73A and Jorway 411S Linux LabVIEW libraries
Under LINUX and VxWorks the following CAMAC interface is supported:
ces8210
- CES CBD8210 VME to Parallel CAMAC interface
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