Overview of the Control Monitoriting and Event Readout 
(Data Acquistion Software)

1.15.1 Run and Data Acquisition Software

This is the software and hardware framework to control and monitor 
the data flow in
the data acquistion system. 
The actual software needed to transfer the
data itself is included elsewhere - in the description of the level 3 
processing farm and in the mass storage system. 
We have a lot of experience with this 
infrastructure - from Vaxonline, PanDA, and DART to the Run II experiments.
Our WBS values are based on our experiences with these projects.
The online software of BTeV is on the same scale of these latter projects, 
although
the hardware architecture and technology choices will be different. 

In most
cases, the software estimates are based on the software being written inhouse.
Since the software market is extremely volatile, commercial alternatives
were not considered unless it was a technology that has a projected long 
lifetime.
Cost comparisons will be made at
the time to determine any saving that can be made by purchasing commercial
software or if there is sufficient open source software available. 

The overall online estimate is on the order of 6 manyears of a software
engineer with additional estimate for a commercial message passing
system. An additional 3 manyears of software engineering and a physicist
1/2 time for a year is needed to design and implement the online 
database schema. 

The online system cost is domintated by software development time. The
hardware for the and data base servers and host machine(s) are small
in comparison. We estimated two high database server for the online
requirements based on Run II experiments plus the necessary database
development machines. More disk and cpu might be needed for unanticipated 
BTeV requirements. 

The online server machines themselves are simply performant commercially
available PCs and monitors. 
 
These machines will require a full time online system manager. A computer
professional for two years prior to beam has been costed. Presumable once
the run starts this is operating money? 

This is not
a high risk part of the overall BTeV costing estimate. 

1.5.2 Test Stand Software

This is the framework needed for teststand and test beam users
to test and develop detector modules and components. The hope would
be to model it after an older infrastructure estimated .75 manyears to i
modernize. The cost estimate takes a conservative approach and 
estimates an entire rewrite requireing 2.5 manyears. Support of 
either infrastructure over the lifetime of the teststands is 
.5 manyears.

1.5.3

This is the hardware and software framework for the 
slow control systems to actually monitor the detector itself - temperatures,
pressures, high voltages, etc. 
Historically, the bulk of manpower effort for this work has been the
physicists involved in the building of the detector. ? Estimates from
run II experiments are 20 manyears of effort. 

Estimates assumes use of a commercial software package for monitoring
and alarms and 10 subsystems that would require the license. 

1.5.4 ES&H Reviews

The online hardware is commercial and installed in a normal working environment.
Most attention needs to be concentrated on the detector control system.

1.5.5 Testing at C0

This is the final testing of equipment in the assembly Hall. One man year
of effort is estimated at from the online and slow controls systems.

1.5.6 Project Management

Based on Run II experience, the slow controls system requires 1 Physicist
manager full time for 2 years and the online software one engineer for
3. 80% of this time is spent on project coordination and 20% on reviews.

More here for ES&H reviews for slow controls ?