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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.

Documentation

• Main Documentation

• Doxygen Code structure, functions, etc...

• JSON-RPC and AJAX functions Documentation
• mhttpd.js Documentation

• Miscelleneous notes : Notes that need to be incorporated in the documentation.

• New Features : documented features to be incorporated in the documentation.

Links

• https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas - MIDAS GIT Repository
• https://midas.triumf.ca/forum - MIDAS discussion forum
• https://daq.triumf.ca - TRIUMF DAQ plone site
• https://daq.triumf.ca/~daqweb/doc/midas-devel/html - Doxygen-generated code documentation
• MIDAS installation instructions for TRIUMF experiments
• MIDAS users around the world
• Older or deprecated reference/document files

Download

All MIDAS programs are under the GNU Public License

The 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:

git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas
git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/mscb
git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/mxml
cd midas
make

Supported operating systems are:

• primary: MacOS, RHEL/SL/SLC/CentOS Linux
• secondary: MS Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, FreeBSD, VxWorks, others (see Makefile)

The bitbucket repository is mirrored nightly to TRIUMF at http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/git. Please use this mirror to install stable releases of MIDAS. To follow the latest development version, please clone from bitbucket.

News and Support

News about bug fixes and new releases of Midas can be obtained from the Midas news group located at TRIUMF which uses 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.

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://midas.psi.ch/rome/ - MEG/PSI data analysis package