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Introduction

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 GNU Public License.

Documentation

• Main Documentation
• Installation Instructions
• Doxygen Code structure, functions, etc...

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.

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

Links

• https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas - MIDAS GIT Repository
• MIDAS users around the world

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