Several uses of MC 68000 in CAMAC systems

CAMAC is the universally used standard in high energy physics experiments. In order to give to technicians a debugging and trouble shooting tool and to physicists a cheap system for apparatus test the authors have developed an Autonomous Camac Branch Driver using the MC 68000, 16 bits, microprocessor. To achieve it they have designed a powerful CAMAC interface and interactive software allowing very simple use of this tool. In the same way they have also designed an Auxiliary Crate Controller, with an associated 64K to 256K words (16 bits) memory, for data acquisition and preprocessing at the CAMAC Crate Level. Keeping in the mind the same idea the authors are designing a new Branch Driver with a large memory, devoted to data acquisition and working as a frontal processor, at the CAMAC Branch level, for the main experiment computer. (0 refs).