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Table 2 Structure of the AEḡIS data atom, representing all DAQ data objects

From: CIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments

Name

Alphanumeric String containing a (possibly hierarchical) unique name for the data atom. The format of the data associated with a given name should not be changed.

Timestamp

Instant when the data was acquired, in three formats: 1) character string, parsable by strptime(3); 2) struct timespec containing time since the UNIX epoch; 3) 64-bit unsigned integer with RF clock count, if applicable.

Data

Instance of a scalar, vector, or structured (cluster) data type, compatible with LabVIEW™ types, and their conversion into either JSON-formatted files or ROOT TTrees.