Experiment Architecture (sbRIO)

Experiment Architecture

We have several mouse boxes placed on a Weill rack. The individual joystick is connected to a control board on the box itself that handles sensor inputs so that only a single DB15 cable is required to link a joystick box to the data acquisition system.

Each joystick unit is connected by a DB15 cable to an sbRIO rack mounted inside the server cart. Each of these sbRIO units is a U rack containing an sbRIO 9626/9636 with mounted ports for connecting to the joystick boxes. We are currently using two models, the sbRIO 9636 which can handle up to 4 boxes, and the sbRIO 9626, which can handle up to 8 boxes.

Each of these sbRIO units sends information via a network stream to a computing node, which stores the information as .dat files in the appropriate directory (See Post Processing Analysis for more information). Currently each sbRIO unit is assigned 1 node, but multiple sbRIO units can be linked to a single computing node.