Midas Data Acquisition

2.0.0-1

Welcome to the world of Midas.
The System

Midas is a versatile Data acquisition System for medium scale physics experiments. This document will try to answer most of your questions regarding installation, setup, running, and development.

If you're looking for a flexible and simple DAQ, you may want to consider Midas and its applications. Feel free to browse through the following links.

• Midas is a result of a development effort made by Stefan Ritt at PSI/Switzerland (Midas@PSI) in collaboration with the members of the Data acquisition group at Triumf/Canada.

• Midas has a dedicated discussion forum (Electronic logbook) which provides common place for midas users to report problems, share experience or post improvement wishes. You can browse this Elog or register for Email notifications.

• The Midas source code is subject to the GPL and can be accessed from the SVN repository site in Switzerland either for inspection or download.

• Tar and RPMs are also available either from the Switzerland or Canadian sites.

• The main purpose of the MIDAS DAQ is to provide:
  • data collection from local and/or remote hardware source.
  • data recording to common storage media.
  • Full data flow control.
• It does also event-by-event analysis through PAW or Root based application. Please refer to:
  • ROME analyzer framework.
  • Roody GUI histogram visualizer application.

• The current hardware support is listed at this location.

• Other related links can be found here.

• The following chapters refer to the online Midas documentation.

Content

• New Documented Features : Whats new in Midas.
• Introduction : Some initial words and description
• Components : Listing
• Quick Start : The HowTo for installation.
• Internal features : The main internal components of the system.
• MIDAS Analyzer : PAW/Root Analyzer.
• Utilities : The Midas applications.
• Data format : Supported data format
• Supported hardware : Supported hardware.
• CAMAC and VME access function call : CAMAC and VME access function call.
• Midas build options and operation considerations : Midas build options and operation consideration.
• Midas Code and Libraries : Midas Library.
• Frequently Asked Questions : Frequently Asked Questions.

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