Speaker
Patryk Dawid Jankowski
(CERN)
Description
The LHC superconducting magnet test benches controls were designed in 1996. They were based on VME data acquisition systems, Siemens PLCs control and interlocks systems. After a review of renovation of superconducting laboratories at CERN in 2009, it was decided to replace the VME systems with a PXI based systems and the ageing Sun/Solaris workstations with Linux PC’s. This lecture covers the process of designing a new DAQ system for superconducting magnets, from gathering requirements, signal conditioning, hardware and software architecture and finally the lessons learned after 14 years of operation.
