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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.
Links
- http://midas.psi.ch/ - main MIDAS page at PSI
- https://midas.triumf.ca/forum - MIDAS discussion forum
- http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/doc/midas/html/ - MIDAS documentation (TRIUMF)
- https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas - MIDAS GIT Repository
- (OBSOLETE: SVN->GIT) http://midas.psi.ch/download.html - download instructions (use svn checkout)
- (OBSOLETE: SVN->GIT) https://savannah.psi.ch/viewvc/meg_midas/trunk/ - MIDAS SVN repository (PSI)
- http://midas.psi.ch/download - historical files collection (PSI)
- http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/ftp/ - historical files collection (TRIUMF)
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/mxml cd midas make
Related packages
- 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
TRIUMF resources
Documentation
- Main Documentation (in construction)
- Format of MIDAS history files
- Note on the alarm system
- Note on the ODB hotlink function (db_open_record())
MediaWiki
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.