Flash memory-based data acquisition system with NOBLE

Several types of board computers, such as VME, CompactPCI, and so on, are used in high energy physics experiments. They are usually used as a diskless system booted through a network. Such an architecture is easy to use once the setup is completed. However, if the network goes down, the system can no longer be started up. One of the solutions for this problem is to use an on-board flash memory device as a boot device. As the basic architecture of a flash memory-based data acquisition system, we have developed a networked on-board Linux environment (NOBLE) distribution package in order to ensure easy installation of an operating system on a flash memory device.