Unlike most commercial acquisition packages, SusiQ is a multi data
word data acquisition and analyzer package. It uses high level language
for acquisition definition and event analysis. This package is based on a PDP
/VAX version SUSI used at a nuclear physics research centre. This
package is a stand alone system, which can be used off the shelf or full blown
with user specific FORTRAN routines. The off-shelf package contains an
executable susiq.exe which can take care of most of the simple detector
test requirements. Setup, acquisition, event analyzer and histogram file
definitions are the only necessary files to make SusiQ operational. SusiQ
supports two type of CAMAC hardware interfaces: The KCS 3922 and the DSP 6002
CAMAC crate controllers.
So, "What can SusiQ do for you ?"...
[heart] Reads your CAMAC event record on: LAM request, TIME basis, or RANDOM
TIME basis.
[heart] Processes each event record through an event-by-event analyzer, where
conditional tests based on the content of the record or computed quantities
will generate a test array result.
[heart] Keeps track of the statistics of these test results for conditional
histogram generation.
[heart] Saves either raw data or computed data on a storage device (disk file)
for later replay.
[heart] Saves test results and histogram results on run by run basis.
SusiQ can also display online :
* Raw data (CAMAC records) on event-by-event or user specified rate.
* Computed quantities, test results on event-by-event or user specified
rate.
* Test statistical results based on a user conditions.
* Histograms of a single variable of the raw or computed array gated on user
defined conditions.
* Dotplot (scatter dotplot) of two variables on user specified condition.