CEBAF Online Data Acquisition

Jefferson lab. Data acquisition system, Version 2.1


Unfortunately CODA seems to be a popular name and web search engines turn up a whole host of CODA web sites. If you are interested in the common data acquisition environment for Physics experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, then you are in the right place.


Introduction

In the early days (i.e. before I got here in 1991) it was decided that data acquisition was an important enough field that it merited it's own support group charged with providing the laboratory with a "state of the art" data acquisition environment which would be common to all experiments and test systems through the laboratory.

The data acquisition group was founded by John Domingo, then associate director of Physics Division. The first group leader was Chip Watson. Chip's wife taught piano and when we were looking for a name for the system Chip thought of CODA. Originally CODA was an acronym, CEBAF Online Data Acquisition, but when the laboratory was renamed we decided to keep the name CODA.


Links

The original CODA manual was a paper manual written using "Framemaker®" this manual was very hard to maintain. The new manual is in the form of web pages which are linked to from the table below.

staff

If you are looking for help, look here for 'phone numbers and E-mail addresses.

manuals and links

The current version of CODA uses several "third party" packages. Look here for manuals and links.

papers

Look here for papers etc.

old

Look here for information about earlier CODA versions.

user guide

Look here for the current user guide.

distribution

You can ftp the software from here.

disclaimer

It's not our fault, honest it isn't...