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Entry  19 Mar 2025, Zaher Salman, Forum, LabView-Midas interface 
    Reply  19 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, LabView-Midas interface 
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          Reply  20 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, LabView-Midas interface 
    Reply  21 Mar 2025, Stefan Ritt, Forum, LabView-Midas interface 
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       Reply  23 Mar 2025, Zaher Salman, Forum, LabView-Midas interface 
Message ID: 2961     Entry time: 20 Mar 2025     In reply to: 2959     Reply to this: 2962
Author: Zaher Salman 
Topic: Forum 
Subject: LabView-Midas interface 
Thanks Konstantin. Please send me the felabview code or let me know where I can find it.

Zaher

> > Does anyone have experience with writing a MIDAS frontends to communicate with a device that operates using LabView (e.g. superconducting magnets, cryostats etc.). Any information or experience regarding this would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Yes, in the ALPHA anti-hydrogen experiment at CERN we have been doing this since 2006.
> 
> Original system is very simple, labview side opens a TCP socket to the MIDAS felabview frontend
> and sends the numeric data as an ASCII string. The first four chars of the data is the name
> of the MIDAS data bank, second number is the data timestamp in seconds.
> 
> LCRY 1234567 1.1 2.2 3.3
> 
> A newer iteration is feGEM written by Joseph McKenna (member of this forum), it uses a more sophisticated
> labview component. Please contact him directly for more information.
> 
> I can provide you with the source code for my original felabiew (pretty much unchanged from circa 2006).
> 
> K.O.
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