The RD13 DAQ System and the Object Management Workbench

This paper describes the progression towards an object-oriented (OO) environment for software development as used in the RD13 research project for data acquisition systems of high energy physics experiments. A general description of the RD13 DAQ system and the existing software development environment is followed by an overview of the selected OO method and associated CASE tool. How the method and CASE tool relate to the existing environment is explored. As examples, a number of applications developed using the OO environment are explained. The paper concludes with an attempt to indicate what will be the most significant changes for DAQ software development between the present day and start-up date of the LHC detectors