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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
• (OBSOLETE: SVN->GIT) http://midas.psi.ch/download.html - download instructions (use svn checkout)
• https://midas.triumf.ca/forum - MIDAS discussion forum
• (OBSOLETE: SVN->GIT) https://savannah.psi.ch/viewvc/meg_midas/trunk/ - MIDAS SVN repository (PSI)
• http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/doc/midas/html/ - MIDAS documentation (TRIUMF)
• http://midas.psi.ch/download - historical files collection (PSI)
• http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/ftp/ - historical files collection (TRIUMF)
• MIDAS around the world
• https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas - MIDAS GIT Repository

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

Documentation

• Main Documentation (in progress)
• Format of MIDAS history files
• Note on the alarm system
• Note on the ODB hotlink function (db_open_record())

MediaWiki

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language