Fasti is an innovative design for infrared detector control. ... to use largely accepted standards as boundaries, as a PCI bus, a parallel interface or a serial, and to use few of them . ... The building blocks of Fasti are: . ... the serial bus for controlling housekeeping devices (temperature and pressure sensors or motor controllers) and programming data acquisition . ... Though not so fast, and lacking some forms of data integrity check, this bus is so widely used to be nearly unavoidable. ...

... Fasti is a controller architecture originally developed for fast infrared astronomical array detectors, and intended to be powerful and extendible. ... 2002), Foppiani et al. 2002)). ... The parallel input interface (now a commercial board). ... Esposito, S., Riccardi, A., Storm, J., Accardo, M., Baffa, C., Biliotti, V., Foppiani, I., Puglisi, A., Ragazzoni, R., Ranfagni, P., Stefanini, P., Salinari, P., Seifert, W., Storm, J. 2002, SPIE Conference AS06, Wizinowich, P. L. Ed., in press . ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... http://carma.astro.umd.edu/wiki/index.php/Installing_Developer_CASA . Building CCMTools as required by CASA . ... Building . ... Notes related to building CASA . A prototype build system for CASA using SCons . ... Generating IDL files . ... Notes on the classic CASA build . ... Writing the tool XML file . ... Automatically generated IDL files from the files describing each of the tools of CASA. ... Building CASA . ... Building the casa-core libraries . ...

... DpmkSpace (part of SAS) . Cdb server (part of calibDB, in Garching only . Dpserver (part of SA, in Garching only) More about P2PP checks to be performed when installing/configuring it. Go to top of page . More about OT-tcl/tk checks to be performed when installing/configuring it. ... More about Java-OT checks to be performed when installing/configuring it. ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for com