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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. Read more...

Links

• https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas - MIDAS GIT Repository
• http://midas.psi.ch/ - MIDAS pages at PSI
• https://midas.triumf.ca/forum - MIDAS discussion forum
• http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/doc/midas/html/ - MIDAS documentation (TRIUMF)

• MIDAS users around the world

• 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

• MIDAS installation instructions for TRIUMF experiments

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.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language