Citation
Pl. Anthony et al., CANbus and microcontroller use in the BaBar detector at SLAC, IEEE NUCL S, 47(2), 2000, pp. 166-169
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Nuclear Emgineering
Journal title
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE
ISSN journal
00189499
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Volume
47
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Part
1
Pages
166 - 169
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9499(200004)47:2<166:CAMUIT>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The BaBar collaboration has chosen the Controller Area Network (CAN) [1] bu
s for its controls and monitoring field bus. In addition. the Motorola MC68
HC70SX32 [2] microcontroller, which has a CAN interface, was chosen for the
standard intelligent device for monitoring boards. This paper describes th
e CAN system used by BaBar and the embedded software that supports it. The
General Monitoring Board (GMB) is presented as a specific example. The GMB
is a CAN module that digitizes 32 differential analog signals and has eight
bits of bi-directional I/O.