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Introduction

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 GNU Public License.

Documentation

• Main Documentation
• Installation Instructions
• Changelog / Upgrade Instructions
• Doxygen Code structure, functions, etc...
• git repository on bitbucket Source code, bug tracking, etc
• MIDAS forum Discussion, announcements, problem reports, requests for improvements

News and Support

For news about bug fixes and new releases, go to the MIDAS forum hosted by TRIUMF using the ELOG system. Users can register in this system to be notified automatically via E-mail when new entries are submitted.

Another source of information is the Bitbucket Repository of MIDAS, where one can see the latest changes to the software.

Finally, you can read presentations from

• 2015 MIDAS Workshop
• 2017 MIDAS Workshop
• 2019 MIDAS Workshop

Related packages

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