Modelling of data acquisition systems
S. Buono, I. A. Gaponenko, R. W. L. Jones, L. Mapelli, G. Mornacchi, D Prigent, E. Sánchez-Corral, R. Spiwoks, M. Skiadelli, Gustavo Ambrosini · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1994
The RD13 project was approved in April 1991 for the development of a scalable data taking system suitable to host various LHC studies. One of its goals is to use simulations as a tool for understanding, evaluating, and constructing different configurations of such data acquisition (DAQ) systems. The RD13 project has developed a modelling framework for this purpose. It is based on MODSIM II, an object-oriented, discrete-event simulation language. A library of DAQ components allows to describe a variety of DAQ architectures and different hardware options in a modular and scalable way. A graphical user interface (GUI) is used to do easy configuration, initialization and on-line monitoring of the simulation program. A tracing facility is used to do flexible off-line analysis of a trace file written at run-time.