A Linux-Based CAMAC serial Highway System for JT-60

A Linux-based CAMAC Serial Highway system has been developed as a part of a replaced system for JT-60 data processing system because the SPARC-based VME board computer system is old and has difficulties for its maintenance. The new system is based on an Intel architecture Cpu with a Linux operating system, and consists of a personal computer with PCI bus system and a Kinetic 2115 driver module to access to CAMAC subsystems with the CAMAC Serial Highway. The driver software for Kinetic 2115 on Linux has been developed. It has almost the same functionalities and interfaces as the previous Kinetic 2140 system. Throughput as a function of the transferred data size was measured as performances of the new system. The measurements' results show higher throughput of the new developed system. In addition, the new system has been already implemented and used for the real experiment with JT-60 without any problems and with better performance than the previous system. This document is composed of the slides of the presentation