Small Program For Fast Data Acquisition Of CAMAC And Other Devices On PC ISA bus

Abstract

A new data acquisition program for personal computers with Windows operating system has been built at Charles University van de Graaff laboratory. It allows fast data acquisition from CAMAC and other PC interface cards using interrupt or polling mode via several types of crate controllers, basic on-line analysis and visualization of acquired data in graphs and histograms. The program is written in combination of MSVC++ and ROOT macros and offers easy customization to individual user requirements via external configuration files, without need of recompilation. In the presented paper a detailed description of the program concepts and features is given. Program was extensively tested with several combinations of hardware and software, and results of the tests are shown at the end.