The xDAQ framework has been developped by CERN and is extensively used in the CMS experiment.
The current implementation has been developped for CALICE by Christophe Combaret and Laurent Mirabito (both at IPN Lyon).
The code is available on the IPNL svn server An installation procedure is documented here for SCL5 on Laurent's personnal pages.
The configuration files are described in this HowTo file.
Addtional HowTo's are located on IPNL ELOGProcedure_XDAQ_version_python_v2.pdf: Installation note for XDAQ+USB by Guillaume Vouters.
-- VincentBoudry - 08-Aug-2011