MIDAS

About

MIDAS is a modern data acquisition system developed at PSI and TRIUMF. Supported hardware includes VME, Fastbus, CAMAC, RS232, GPIB, USB, ethernet, fiber optic and MSCB attached data acquisition devices. MIDAS is written in C/C++ and runs on Linux, MacOS and MS Windows. It is licensed under the GPL.

Links

• http://midas.psi.ch/ - main MIDAS page
• https://midas.triumf.ca - MIDAS Wiki
• https://midas.triumf.ca/forum - MIDAS discussion forum
• https://bitbucket.org/tmidas - MIDAS GIT repositories

Related packages

• ROOT - data analysis package from CERN
• ROOTANA - ROOT-based analyzer for MIDAS
• ROODY - viewer for online histograms
• http://midas.psi.ch/rome/ - MEG/PSI data analysis package

TRIUMF resources

• MIDAS installation instructions for TRIUMF experiments