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= About =
<div style="border: 2px solid #3366cc; background-color: #eaf3ff; padding: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 130%;">'''The midas documentation has moved to [https://midas.triumf.ca/docs/develop/ midas.triumf.ca/docs].'''</div>


MIDAS is a modern data acquisition system developed at [http://www.psi.ch PSI] and [http://www.triumf.ca 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This wiki is no longer updated.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://daq.triumf.ca - TRIUMF DAQ Wiki
* [https://daq00.triumf.ca/DaqWiki/index.php/ROODY ROODY]: viewer for online histograms
 
* [[MIDAS around the world|MIDAS users around the world]]
 
= 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>
 
Supported operating systems are:
* primary: MacOS, RHEL/SL/SLC Linux
* secondary: MS Windows, Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD, VxWorks, others (see Makefile)
 
Or a mirror is available:
<pre>
... coming soon...
</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
TRIUMF 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 =
 
* [http://midas.psi.ch/elog ELOG] - Electronics Logbook from PSI
* [[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
 
= Documentation =
 
* [http://midas.psi.ch/htmldoc/index.html Documentation at PSI]
* [http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/doc/midas/html Documentation at TRIUMF]
* [http://midas.psi.ch/download Historical files collection (PSI)]
* [http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/ftp/ Historical files collection (TRIUMF)]
* [[Midas documentation|New Wiki Documentation ('''in construction''')]]
* [[Setup_MIDAS_experiment|MIDAS installation instructions for TRIUMF experiments]]
* [[Common problems & Debugging recipes]]
* [[mhformat|Format of MIDAS history files]]
* [[alarm_note|Note on the alarm system]]
* [[hotlink_note|Note on the ODB hotlink function (db_open_record())]]
* [[start_abort|Note on prevent start due to alarm or required programs]]
* [[Modifications|List of various minor modification to be put into the right place of the documentation]]
 
= 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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