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Description
The data acquisition software, EUDAQ1, was originally developed to read out
data from beam telescope systems. This was successfully used in many
beam tests in which an external position reference was required. The
software has recently undergone a significant upgrade, EUDAQ2, ensuring that
it is agnostic to the hardware and is a generic, modular system for use by
many detectors, including calorimeters. The software can run in different
triggering or event building modes and combine the data to produce a common
event. EUDAQ2 is also ideal as an overarching software that links to
individual detector DAQ systems and so can ease the integration of multiple
detectors for data taking. The system has been verified in a beam test
involving the analogue hadronic calorimeter, a development within the CALICE
collaboration which carries out R&D on linear collider calorimeters, and the
beam telescope; these have very different timing and readout structures. The
software was also successfully used in a beam test of the ATLAS inner tracker
upgrade. The EUDAQ2 software has been developed within the AIDA-2020 EU
programme to provide a common framework for linear collider beam tests, but
can also be used by other systems or project. The software is now released,
freely available and ready for use.
