Design of a hardware testing system for the D zero detector

Testing a system as large as the D Zero data acquisition system is difficult. The use of IBM compatible personal computers in a hardware test system that can run on any size system from an engineer’s test bench to the entire subsystem in the D Zero Detector is described. The test system uses a PC to W E bus interface for the local testing and the Token Ring network for more global testing. This system has been implemented for several different hardware systems in D Zero.