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RIS citation export for S11LLC04: Driving Serial CAMAC Systems from VME Crates

TY  - CONF
AU  - Heinze, W.
ED  - Pak, Cheol-on
ED  - Kurokawa, Shin-ichi
ED  - Katoh, Tadahiko
ED  - Furukawa, Kazuro
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
TI  - Driving Serial CAMAC Systems from VME Crates
J2  - Proc. of ICALEPCS1991, Tsukuba, Japan, 11-15 November 1991
CY  - Tsukuba, Japan
T2  - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3  - 3
LA  - english
AB  - Large control systems in the 80’s were often based on Serial CAMAC loops driven by 16 bit minicomputers. These 16 bit computers, becoming obsolete in the 90’s, are advantageously replaced by VME crates. To maintain the investment in Serial CAMAC hardware and software, an inexpensive Serial Highway Driver has been developed which operates in a VME crate as simple I/O module. With this system, both classical configurations, i.e. the Highway Driver on the I/O bus of the minicomputer and the Highway Driver in a so-called CAMAC mother crate, can be replaced with minimal costs and improved performance. This paper presents a VME Serial CAMAC Driver and compares the performance of the VME driven Serial Highway to the ones driven by minicomputers. The comparison is based on the experience gained with the beginning of the replacement of Norsk Data minicomputers by VME crates in the CERN/PS control system as described by A. Gagnaire et al. in "Replacing PS Controls front end minicomputers by VME based 32-bit processors" in S11LLC01, this conference.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 386
EP  - 388
KW  - controls
KW  - operation
KW  - status
KW  - software
KW  - hardware
DA  - 1992/12
PY  - 1992
SN  - 2226-0358
SN  - 978-3-95450-254-7
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S11LLC04
UR  - https://jacow.org/icalepcs1991/papers/s11llc04.pdf
ER  -