CAMAC, an acronym for Computer Automated Measurement And Control, is an IEEE-standard (583), modular, high-performance, realtime data acquisition and control system concept.
Since 1969, CAMAC has been used in many thousands of scientific, industrial, aerospace, and defense test systems around the world.
CAMAC is a non-proprietary, open-architecture concept providing:
The CAMAC standard allows a wide range of modular
instruments to be interfaced to a standardized backplane,
called a DATAWAY, to create high performance data acquisition
and control systems. The modular concept permits computer
interaction with virtually any type of sensor, transducer, or final
control element. Also available is a standardized data acquisition
Serial Highway that operates at transmission rates up to 50 Mbit/s
over distances to 3 kilometers between remote locations.
This series of powered CAMAC crates fully complies with CAMAC
specification IEEE-583. Crates include the CAMAC Dataway with an
86-contact PC edge connector a each station. All units include one
or more self-contained blowers as well as a power supply which
converts the ac source to the mandatory DC CAMAC Dataway voltages
(+/-6 V and +/-24 V) and also provide the optional +/-12 V outputs.