Conveners
IOC Developments
- Álvaro Marqueta (ITER Organization)
IOC Developments
- Katy Saintin (CEA)
Description
Drivers, devices and details
We have designed a bunch-by-bunch beam position monitor (BPM). The BPM consists of a four button pickup and a four channel 500MS/s 14-bit ADC electronic system. The core processor of the electronic system is a Xilinx ZYNQ-7000 SoC, equipped with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 and a Kintex®-7 based programmable logic array. EPICS and the Linux operating system will run on the ARM core of the ZYNQ....
Introducing the lua EPICS support module, an integration of the lua scripting language into EPICS. The module provides:
- A lua shell environment that can be used as a replacement of, or in addition to, the iocsh shell environment
- A record type that uses lua to customize record behavior
- Device type support to customize basic record processing
- Extensibility support to add new...
Keywords: EPICS, White Rabbit, LIPAc, Interlocks, RF control, amplifiers, control system
Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc), located in Rokkasho, Japan is a linear accelerator whose objective is to validate the final IFMIF accelerators concept. LIPAc includes 18 RF power chains, distributed in a nine meters RFQ cavity with 8 chains, 2 buncher cavities with one chain per cavity and a...
Development efforts are affected by the increasing number of applications that relies on client-server-based control systems, so new research lines appear in order to simplify the implementation and integration of device drivers in distributed control environments.
NDS has been designed as a control-system independent layer (namely the NDS Core). The interface to a specific control-system is...
The usage of FPGA-based DAQ systems has been growing in instrumentation and control systems for Big Science experiments over the last years. The combination of flexibility and performance that FPGAs give to DAQ and processing systems allow to apply them in multiple applications such as data acquisition, processing algorithms, complex timing and triggers mechanisms, interlock operations, and...
During the past year we have developed EPICS drivers for several different data acquisition boards that support sampling rates from 100MHz to GHz range. Common properties of these boards include the MTCA.4 form factor, and with it, PCIe bus, while their differences mostly reside in number of input channels, sampling rates, different driver APIs, etc.
EPICS drivers were structured based on...
CEA Irfu Saclay is contributing in many facilities (ESS, IFMIF, SARAF…) through several collaborations and, especially in the last few years, in different RF conditioning test stands. Between 2015 and 2020, 10 RF test stands will have been installed . Due to different hardware choices made by the projects, we do not necessarily use the same hardware. However the scientific need is very...
Reflections on the costs and benefits of developing and testing hardware drivers using software simulations. Experiences with Serial, Ethernet, PCI, and VME devices.
StreamDevice has received quite some updates over the last years. In particular version 2.8 introduces several new features. More changes are planned for the future.
