FASTER software

FASTER modules are developed with :

• VHDL for hardware modules. VHDL (Very-high-speed integrated circuits Hardware Description Language) is used to program the FPGA in the FASTER hardware nodes.
• Ada for software nodes. Ada in an advanced, modern programming language, designed and standardized to support widely recognized sotfware engineering principles :
  • • reliability,
    • portability,
    • modularity,
    • re-usability.
• Python for describing nodes interconnections and building graphical user interfaces. Python’s flexibility allows quickly describing and building FASTER acquisition trees by interconnecting hardware and software nodes.