JORWAY CORPORATION 
" A CAMAC Company "
Computer Automated Measurement and Control
for Science and Industry

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ABOUT JORWAY

The Jorway Corporation founded in 1968 now celebrates over 36 years in business.  Jorway has designed and manufactured numerous products to serve the instrumentation needs of the scientific and industrial community.  We thank our old customers for their continued business and welcome new customers hoping we can assist with their instrumentation needs.

Prior to 1970, Jorway built high speed readout (Nixie) scalers used widely in high energy physics.  With the advent of "CAMAC" IEEE Std. 595, Jorway began building many of the first CAMAC controllers and modules to be available commercially.  We have participated in a number of SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) federal grants which have been used to create innovative solutions to high speed data acquisition.

One of our specialties has been the interfacing of CAMAC to popular processors used in physics research and industry. We have strived to provide economical solutions to the constantly changing interface requirements.  Today, we offer CAMAC interfaces to the SCSI and USB bus making the same interface hardware usable for a large variety of modern processors from work stations to PC’s, MAC’s and laptops.

CAMAC has often been criticized for being too slow.  Certainly, many newer instrumentation techniques, i.e., FASTBUS, VME, VXI, have addressed this speed problem.  Notwithstanding, CAMAC still remains a useful instrumentation concept especially in support roles, small experiments and test setups.  It is simple, economical, and easy to use.  In 1995 Jorway, in conjunction with the LeCroy Corporation and Yale University, received a USDOE grant to develop a non-proprietary technique which is now called FASTCAMAC.   FASTCAMAC, an extension to the CAMAC standard, while maintaining backward compatibility with old CAMAC modules significantly increases the data transfer rate.   Rates are extended in levels with increases in data transfer speed from the standard speed of  3 megabytes per second to as high as 60 megabytes per second for modules having FASTCAMAC circuitry.

We have, over the years, tried to make our design staff available to discuss your questions and problems. Many of the our products came about as result of conversations with you, the users.  So please feel free to contact us and inquire whether we can assist in satisfying your needs.

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Last modified: February 21, 2005