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TY - CONF AU - De Maio, N. AU - Bark, A.P. AU - Cobb, T.M. AU - Thompson, J.A. ED - Corvetti, Lou ED - Riches, Kathleen ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Synchronising High-Speed Triggered Image and Meta Data Acquisition for Beamlines J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2015, Melbourne, Australia, 17-23 October 2015 C1 - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 15 LA - english AB - High-speed image acquisition is becoming more and more common on beamlines. As experiments increase in complexity, the need to record parameters related to the environment at the same time increases with them. As a result, conventional systems for combining experimental meta data and images often struggle to deliver at a speed and precision that would be desirable for the experiment. We describe an integrated solution that addresses those needs, overcoming the performance limitations of PV monitoring by combining hardware triggering of an ADC card, coordination of signals in a Zebra box* and three instances of area-Detector streaming to HDF5 data. This solution is expected to be appropriate for frame rates ranging from 30Hz to 1000Hz, with the limiting factor being the maximum speed of the camera. Conceptually, the individual data streams are arranged in pipelines controlled by a master Zebra box, expecting start/stop signals on one end and producing the data collections at the other. This design ensures efficiency on the acquisition side while allowing easy interaction with higher-level applications on the other. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 225 EP - 228 KW - EPICS KW - hardware KW - data-acquisition KW - controls KW - framework DA - 2015/12 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-148-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-MOPGF056 UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/mopgf056.pdf ER -