Data Acquisition-system For Intermediate Energy Nuclear Experiments

The data acquisition system for the OBELIX experiment at the LEAR antiproton beam is presented. The experimental setup is composed by 5 detectors with different read-out systems. The data acquisition is designed to allow the 5 detectors running all together as well as in stand alone mode., the introduction of some steps of data reduction, global hardware control and statistically significant event control. These goals are reached through a tree of VME crates controlled by a medium range computer and four workstations; the main flux of data flows on a combination of VME and VSB busses, while the system is completely controlled via the Ethernet bus. This design allows a high modularity either in the hardware or in the software.