Speaker
Alexander Mamonov
(Russian Federal Nuclear Center (RU))
Description
We report on the development of a software simulator of the detector control system for the ALICE Photon Spectrometer (PHOS). PHOS is an electromagnetic calorimeter, part of the ALICE experiment installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The simulator was design and developed based on the experience acquired during the first years of operation of the detector, from 2009 to 2012. It simulates the behavior of all detector subsystems and auxiliary services: cooling and thermal stabilization of the crystal matrix, low-and high-voltage power supplies, LED monitoring system, gas supply, water cooling and front-end electronics. The simulator is written in ETM PVSS II SCADA environment C-like programming language CONTROL based Microsoft Windows XP platform. It allows to autonomously develop alarm and software protections, remotely train the ALICE shifters and to fine-tune, commission and configure the software updates before deployment in the experiment.
Authors
Alexander Mamonov
(Russian Federal Nuclear Center (RU))
Iouri Vinogradov
(Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF))
