Introduction

In most data acquisition systems used in physics, the front-end - the heart of your experiment - is equipped with CAMAC Crates and Modules. With its VCC 2117, CES adds to this heart:

Simplicity

CAMAC resources are simply memory mapped in the VICbus addressing area.

Intelligence

A 68030 CPU running at 25 MHz equipped with 512 Kbytes of private SRAM, up to 2 Mbytes of Dual Port (CPU / VIC) SRAM and Ethernet communication.

Transfer Speed

The capability to transfer data quickly and efficiently with other members of the system through the VICbus.

Any application requiring one or more of the following features is offered an optimal solution by the VCC 2117:

Mixed systems with various peripheral buses accessible through a uniform interface in hardware and software (VME, VXI, FASTBUS, CAMAC).
Systems where direct access by personal computers is desired for maintenance and monitoring.
Multi-megabyte per second transfer speeds from CAMAC achieved through parallel read-out on the crate level.

The board extends the VIC bus family directly to CAMAC and makes it accessible to VME front end processors, UNIX / OS-9 workstations, DEC 5000, SUN SPARC Stations, PCs and compatible, Macintoshes and VME native workstations. It supports the complete functionality of CAMAC and provides additional features for the most demanding applications using state of the art technologies such as memory broadcast, message posting, multi-mastership on the vertical bus and autonomous list driven intelligent crate read-out controllers. Up to 14 CAMAC crates can be connected to one 100 m VIC branch; additional parallel branches can be implemented.
Both modern data acquisition systems and monitoring / control systems, will benefit from the uniform interface to a number of popular peripheral buses.