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= About =
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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. [http://midas.psi.ch/intro/index.html Read more...]
This wiki is no longer updated. Its pages now point to the new documentation, or are kept as historical pages.


= Links =
== Other links ==
 
* [https://gitlab.triumf.ca/midas/midas Git repository on GitLab]: source code and bug reports
* https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas - MIDAS GIT Repository
* [https://midas.triumf.ca/forum Midas forum]: news, discussion, questions and problem reports
* http://midas.psi.ch/ - MIDAS pages at PSI
* [http://elog.psi.ch/elog ELOG]: electronic logbook from PSI
* https://midas.triumf.ca/forum - MIDAS discussion forum
* [https://root.cern ROOT]: data analysis package from CERN
* http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/doc/midas/html/ - MIDAS documentation (TRIUMF)
* [https://daq00.triumf.ca/DaqWiki/index.php/ROODY ROODY]: viewer for online histograms
 
* [[MIDAS around the world|MIDAS users around the world]]
 
* http://midas.psi.ch/download - historical files collection (PSI)
* http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/ftp/ - historical files collection (TRIUMF)
 
= Download =
 
All MIDAS programs are under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU Public License]
 
The [https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/src GIT tree] is available via a web interface.
Using this interface, the most recent file versions can be obtained.
 
Alternatively, the files can be directly obtained via GIT by entering:
 
<pre>
git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas
git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/mxml
cd midas
make
</pre>
 
= News =
 
News about bug fixes and new releases of Midas can be obtained from the
[https://midas.triumf.ca/forum Midas news group] located at
TRIUM which uses the [http://midas.psi.ch/elog ELOG]
system. Users can register in this system to be notified automatically via
E-mail when new entries are submitted.
 
= 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 =
 
* [[Setup_MIDAS_experiment|MIDAS installation instructions for TRIUMF experiments]]
 
= Documentation =
 
* [[Midas documentation|Main Documentation (in construction)]]
* [[mhformat|Format of MIDAS history files]]
* [[alarm_note|Note on the alarm system]]
* [[hotlink_note|Note on the ODB hotlink function (db_open_record())]]
 
= MediaWiki =
 
Consult the [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
 
* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]
* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language]

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