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Title	An auxiliary controller in the NA3 data acquisition system
Author(s)	Courty, P ; Leray, Th ; Valentin, J
Affiliation	(Lab de Phys Corpusculaire, Coll de France, Paris, France)
Publication	CERN, 1981
In:	Topical Conference on the Application of Microprocessors to High-energy Physics Experiments, pp.102-103
DOI	10.5170/CERN-1981-007.102
Subject category	Nuclear Physics
Abstract	The CAMAC-based online data acquisition system for the NA3 experiment is described. Recent developments to the system include: extending the external buffer memory size by the use of memories with 23 bits of address; shifting the tasks of experiment monitoring and data packing from the minicomputer to auxiliary controllers. Cheap peripherals are used, and the software includes the MACSBUG system, and local assembler and editor. (0 refs).