The directorate's main goal is to solve monitoring, measuring and controlling problems in experimental scientific research (e.g. experimental physics, biomedicine). The activities are twofold: solving measurement and data processing problems related to the experiments and development of hardware and software devices to be used in laboratory automation. An example to the first issue is solving the beam position monitoring in particle accelerator machines (COSY, KFA Jülich 1993, ELSA, University Bonn 1998) and for the second topic developing fast electronics, CFD in VME for the NA49 experiment (CERN) and developing analog electronics as new generation charge-sensitive preamplifier-array for multistrip particle detectors (KFA Jülich, Grenoble 1994). In addition there is a long tradition in developing real-time modules and multichannel analysers.

Regarding all the above, a great deal of specialized knowledge accumulated at the Directorate (former Department) of Laboratory Automation in developing real-time devices based on internationally known and standardised bus systems (CAMAC, VME, VXI, MultibusII, PC/AT-bus). We also have a great deal of experience in designing and realising systems based on user requirements. Real-time devices developed by our directorate are widely used by other research laboratories too, for realising of their systems.

Main fields of activities:

* Nuclear Measurement

* Real-Time systems

* Biomedical Engineering.

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