CAMAC booster ('CAB' system) A versatile microcomputer for high rate CAMAC data acquisition technical presentation

Reports the present status of CAB from the points of view of hardware and software. CAB is a microprogrammable system, using fast TTL bit- slice technology, designed to improve the capabilities of a standard CAMAC data acquisition chain. It can be implemented as crate controller, branch driver, or computer to CAMAC (or GPIB to CAMAC) interface. It is well adapted to a wide range of complex applications, such as software triggering, event filtering, data compaction and formatting, equipment calibration and monitoring. The basic software includes a cross-assembler, an emulating program and an interactive debugger. Improvements are now under development. Today, more than 15 units are used in different laboratories. (0 refs).