TheDAQhardwareoftheISTRA+experimentconsistsoftheVMEsystemcratethatcontainstwoPCI-VMEbridgesinterfacingtwoPC'swithVME,externalinterruptsreceiver,thereadoutcontrollerfordedicatedfront-endelectronics,theread-outcontrollerbuffermemorymodule,theVME-CAMACinterface,andadditionalcontrolmodules,TheDAQcomputingconsistof6PC'srunningtheLinuxoperatingsystemandlinkedintoLAN.ThefirstPCservestheexternalinterruptsandacquiresthedatafromfront-endelectronics,Thesecondoneistheslowcontrolcomputer.TheremainingPC'shostthemonitoringanddataanalysissoftware.TheLinuxbasedDAQsoftwareprovidestheexternalinterruptsprocssing,thedataacquisition,recording,anddistributionbetweenmonitoringanddataanalysistasksrunningatDAQPC's.Themonitoringprogramsarebasedontwopackagesfordatavisualization:home-writtenonandtheROOTsystem.MySQlisusedasaDAQdatabase.
