Glossary

F

Frontend (task)

A MIDAS application built by the user which 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.

O

ODB

Online Data Base contains all the information needed for an experiment

R

Run

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

T

Transition