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Driver: (also device driver) Software that allows access to a particular hardware module.

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Equipment

in MIDAS refers to a Software Equipment and its related Hardware Equipment (if any).

Hardware Equipment: Hardware modules (e.g. a set of scalers) grouped together for convenience of data readout
Software Equipment: A software entity that usually includes collecting the data from a set of Hardware Equipment and outputting it into the Data Buffer as Data Banks. Software Equipments are usually found in Frontends.

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Frontend (task): A MIDAS application built by the user which usually has access to hardware equipment in use by the experiment.
Frontend code: User-written part (e.g. frontend.c) describing sequence of actions to acquire the hardware data. It is linked with a fixed framework mfe.c to form a Frontend..

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Run: A run starts when the MIDAS system receives a Start Transition , and continues until it receives a Stop transition

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-;Driver : (also ''device driver'') Software that allows access to a particular hardware module. Many device drivers are contained in the MIDAS package.
+;Driver : (also ''device driver'') Software that allows access to a particular hardware module.
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 ;Equipment : in MIDAS refers to a ''Software Equipment'' and its related ''Hardware Equipment'' (if any).
 :;Hardware Equipment
-:: Modules (e.g. a set of scalers) grouped together for convenience of data readout
+:: Hardware modules (e.g. a set of scalers) grouped together for convenience of data readout
 :; Software Equipment
 :: A software entity that usually includes collecting the data from a set of Hardware Equipment and outputting it into the Data Buffer as Data Banks. Software Equipments are usually found in [[Frontend Operation#Frontends| Frontends]].