Organization of SINQ Data Acquisition

Client Server Data Acquisition

SINQ uses SICS as its data acquisition program. SICS is a client server system. Thus at any given time at least two programs are required to operate SICS:

1. A SICS client. SICS clients can run on any computer
2. A SICS server. The SICS server runs on the instrument computer.

The two programs communicate with each other through the TCP/IP network and a simple ASCII command protocol.