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Debian packages useful for data acquisition are in the [[http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/dataacquisition.html|data acquisition task]] Debian packages useful for data acquisition are in the [[http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/dataacquisition|data acquisition task]]

Data Acquisition using Debian

Debian packages useful for data acquisition are in the data acquisition task

This page aims not to duplicate this package list, but to provide a useful overview - and links to case studies.

Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition and Control

  • TANGO mentors package upstream is an object oriented distributed control system using CORBA and is being actively developed as a collaborative effort between the Alba, Desy, Elettra, ESRF and Soleil institutes.

  • EPICS unofficial package upstream is a set of Open Source software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments.

  • MX unofficial package upstream is a data acquisition and control system that is designed to serve as a portable toolkit for writing data acquisition and control programs; a standalone system capable of controlling entire experiments; a platform for building device control servers to be used by other applications; a way of extending other control systems and of glueing disparate control systems together. Unofficial Debian packages (including EPICS support) are at http://debian-xray.iit.edu.