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User's guide to FFE : a fast front end data acquisition program

Author
Million, D. L.
Published
United States : [publisher not identified], 1983
Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, [approximately 1983]
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microfiche : negative ; 11 x 15 cm

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Summary
The Large Coil Test Facility project of Fusion Energy Division has a data acquisition system which includes a large host computer and several small, peripheral front-end computers. The front-end processors handle details of data acquisition under the control of the host and pass data back to the host for storage. Some of the front ends are known as fast front ends and are required to collect a maximum of 64,000 samples each second. This speed and other hardware constraints resulted in a need for a stand-alone, assembly language task which could be downline loaded from the host system into the fast front ends. FFE (Fast Front End) was written to satisfy this need. it was written in the PDP11 MACRO-11 assembly language for an LSI-11/23 processor. After the host loads the task into the front end, it controls the data acquisition process with a series of commands and parameters. This User's Guide describes FFE and how to use it from the host system. A companion Programmer's Guide provides more detailed information on the structure of the program.
Report Numbers
DE83010405; ORNL/CSD/TM-199
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Collection
NTIS collection.
Note
DOE contract number: W-7405-ENG-26
OSTI Identifier 6409529
Research organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA).
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