• M. Kawase, M. Kinsho, O. Takeda, Y. Yamazaki, M. Yoshimoto
  JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken

The charge exchange device for 3GeV RCS in J-PARC, which require that a broken foil is exchanged for a new foil by remote control and automatically in vacuum. The control system's important task will be to control under the unified management of the vacuum system and foil driving system and to support EPICS. This device consists of the vacuum system using PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and the foil driving system using MCU (Multi Control Unit). A workstation (WS) was required, and we developed control system which control under the unified management of 2 different type of system. The uniform management control system became complex system. In fact, therefore control system was unfinished system, it did not protect trouble such as the vacuum gate valve closed while transfer rod insert in the ring. Each algorithm of PLC, MCU and WS was reviewed, and the control system that was able to do the unified management was restructured. Each algorithm of PLC, MCU and WS was debugged so that this control system is made remote control using EPICS. We introduce the reconstruction of the control system for the charge exchange system at the RCS in J-PARC.

• H.-J. Kwon, E.-M. An, Y.-S. Cho, I.-S. Hong, J.-H. Jang, D.I. Kim, H.S. Kim, K. Min, B.-S. Park, K.T. Seol, Y.-G. Song, S.P. Yun
  KAERI, Daejon

The 20MeV proton accelerator has been operating since 2007 when it got an operational license at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) by Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP). Beam property such as an emittnace was measured at the low energy beam transport (LEBT) to characterize the beam into the RFQ. In addition, several parts were modified to test the adaptability of those which would be used for the 100MeV linac. The modulator for the 100MeV linac was installed and tested in the 20MeV linac test bench. In addition, low level RF (LLRF) system was modified in the overall configuration and the operator interface (OPI) with EPICS. In this paper, the beam property measurement results and modification of the linac are presented.

• E.D. van Garderen, A. C. Starritt, Y.E. Tan, K. Zingre
  ASCo, Clayton, Victoria

Thirty two Bergoz Beam Position Monitors are located in the Australian Synchrotron booster ring. They currently suffer from a poor signal-to-noise ratio and a low sample rate data acquisition (DAQ) system, provided by a portable DAQ device. This architecture is being upgraded to offer better performance. Phase matched low attenuation cables are being pulled and readout electronics will be located in two sites to reduce cable length. Data acquisition will be upgraded using a high accuracy PCI DAQ board. The board's trigger, originally delivered by a Delay Generator, will be generated by an Event Receiver output following our recent upgrade of the timing system. The new Linux driver will be EPICS-based, for consistency with our control system.

• T.J. Ma, C. Li, W.B. Li, P. Lu, B. Sun, L.L. Tang, Y.L. Yang
  USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui

A new beam current monitor (BCM) has been implemented on Hefei Light Source (HLS) recently. It has been used for bunch-by-bunch beam current measurement, which is useful for filling control and longitudinal feedback, etc. The BCM consists of three parts: the front-end circuit, a high sampling rate oscilloscope for beam current signal acquisition and the data processing system. The signals from the beam position monitor of the storage ring are manipulated by the front-end circuit first, then sampled by the Agilent MSO7104 oscilloscope and transported into the control computer for data processing. The sampling rate of the oscilloscope is up to 4GHz and the trigger rate is 4.533 MHz. The data processing program is supported by the LabVIEW. The measurement of beam current in multi-bunch operation mode is described. Some important results are summarized.

• Y.B. Leng, Y.B. Yan, L.Y. Yu, W.M. Zhou
  SSRF, Shanghai

Bunch charge uniformity control is very important for storage ring top-up operation. In order to monitor filling pattern and measure bunch charge precisely an PXI waveform digitizer based data acquisition system was developed to retrieve bunch charge information from BPM pickup signals. Effective sampling rate could be extended to 400GHz by waveform rebuilding technology, which folds multi turns data into single turn with real time sampling rate of 8GHz. Online evaluation shows charge resolution could be better than 0.5% for 1nC range.

• Y.-G. Song, E.-M. An, Y.-S. Cho, D.I. Kim, H.-J. Kwon
  KAERI, Daejon

The PEFP (Proton Engineering Frontier Project) is constructing a 100-MeV proton accelerator, consisting of a 50-keV proton injector, LEBT (Low Energy Beam Transport), a 3-MeV RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole), a 20-MeV DTL (Drift Tube Linac), 100-MeV DTL, and beam lines. In order to monitor signals measured from RF components and beam current monitors equipped to the 20-MeV proton accelerator, the commercial digital sampling oscilloscopes (DSO) are used. The signals, which are measured from the DSOs, must be calibrated and transmitted promptly to accelerator operators. So LabView as Window PC-based software, which equipped with various VISA (Virtual Instruments Software Architecture) interface as a standard I/O language for instrumentation programming, was chosen to do this data acquisition. The LabView was built with EPICS middleware by using the Window-based shared memory approach. In this paper, the preliminary design and implementation on integrating EPICS and LabView for the RF and beam current monitor are described.

• S.T. Boogert, G.E. Boorman, C. Swinson
  JAI, Egham, Surrey
• R. Ainsworth, S. Molloy
  Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
• A.S. Aryshev, Y. Honda, T. Tauchi, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa
  KEK, Ibaraki
• J.C. Frisch, J. May, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, T.J. Smith, G.R. White, M. Woodley
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• A. Heo, E.-S. Kim, H.-S. Kim, Y.I. Kim
  Kyungpook National University, Daegu
• A. Lyapin
  UCL, London
• H.K. Park
  KNU, Deagu
• M.C. Ross
  Fermilab, Batavia
• S. Shin
  PLS, Pohang

The Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) in KEK, Japan, is a prototype scaled demonstrator system for the final focus required for a lepton linear collider. The ATF2 beam-line is instrumented with a total of 38 C and S band resonant cavity beam position monitors (BPM) with associated mixer electronics and digitizers. The current status of the BPM system is described, with a focus on operational techniques and performance.

• L. Shaw, C.D. Ziomek
  ZTEC Instruments, Albuquerque

Off-the-shelf instruments based on the LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI) standard that include embedded EPICS input/output controllers (IOCs) are an ideal solution for many particle accelerator applications. These applications require responsive remote control and real-time waveform monitoring for critical accelerator systems including machine protection, beam position monitoring and others. These instruments have the same feature sets and powerful analysis capabilities that today's high-end benchtop instruments have. With an embedded EPICS controller, the instruments easily integrate into the EPICS environment without the need for EPICS drivers or external controllers. They can be controlled and monitored by EPICS applications such as EDM and MEDM. These EPICS oscilloscopes and digitizers perform advanced real-time waveform math and analysis using on-board FPGAs and DSP. The paper will detail how ZTEC Instruments' EPICS oscilloscopes are being used at facilities around the world for real-time control and monitoring via EPICS.

• S. Xu, H. Bui, G. Decker, R. Laird, F. Lenkszus, H. Shang, C. Yao
  ANL, Argonne

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a third-generation synchrotron light source in the United States. The BPM electronics plays an important part in the beam stability control. This paper presents comparative measurements of two BPM electronics: Libera Brilliance and APS FPGA-based BSP100. Some important parameters such as beam current dependence, electronics resolution and fill pattern dependence have been measured. These measurements were carried out in the lab and in the real system. The results will be useful for deciding which BPM electronics to deploy in the APS upgrade project.

• P. Chu, S. Chevtsov, J. Wu
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• G.B. Shen
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York

High level applications often suffer from poor performance and reliability due to lengthy initialization, heavy computation and rapid graphical update. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is trying to separate the initialization and computation from applications to distributed service providers. Heavy computation such as beam tracking will be done periodically on a dedicated server and data will be available to client applications at all time. Industrial standard service architecture can help to improve the reliability and maintainability of the service providers. Robustness will also be improved by reducing the complexity of individual client applications.

• N. Malitsky, I. Pinayev
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• R.M. Talman
  CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
• C. Xiaomeng
  Stony Brook University, Stony Brook

Model Independent Analysis (MIA) is an essential approach for measuring optical properties of accelerators. In the paper, we evaluate its application in the context of the NSLS-II Light Source storage ring. It is the first application of the new high-level application environment based on the EPICS-DDS middle layer. Using a full-scale virtual accelerator, the paper explores the tolerance of the MIA approach against the different conditions such as measurement noise in the beam position monitors, magnet errors, misalignments, etc.

• N. Kamikubota, S. Yamada
  KEK, Ibaraki
• T. Iitsuka, S. Motohashi, M. Takagi, S.Y. Yoshida
  Kanto Information Service (KIS), Accelerator Group, Ibaraki
• H. Nemoto
  ACMOS INC., Tokai-mura, Ibaraki
• N. Yamamoto
  J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken

The beam commissioning of the J-PARC Main Ring started in May, 2008. Data archive system has been developed using Channel Archiver, which is a tool developed and maintained in the EPICS community. Various machine parameters and status information of Main Ring have been recorded. The number of records registered extends 17,000 as of December, 2009. The archive data can be retrieved in a form of graphical representation by Web browser. In addition, the mechanism to provide bit-type information, such as interlock and on/off, in time series format is available. They have been used in daily operation of Main Ring. Addition to them, we are trying to develop a new scheme to record large waveform data of beam diagnostic signals. Status and progress of the archive system will be discussed.

• T.T. Nakamura, A. Akiyama, K. Furukawa
  KEK, Ibaraki

Most of the magnet power supplies of the KEKB rings and beam transport lines are connected to the local control computers through ARCNET. For this purpose we have developed the Power Supply Interface Controller Module (PSICM), which is designed to be plugged into the power supply. It has a 16-bit microprocessor, ARCNET interface, trigger pulse input interface, and parallel interface to the power supply. According to the upgrade plan of the KEKB accelerators, more power supplies are expected to be installed. Although the PSICMs have worked without serious problem for 11 years, it seems too hard to keep maintenance for the next decade because some of the parts have been discontinued. Thus we decided to develop the next generation of the PSICM. Its major change is the use of the Ethernet instead of the ARCNET. On the other hand the specifications of the interface to the power supply are not changed at all. The new PSICM is named ePSICM (Ethernet-based Power Supply Interface Controller Module). The design of the ePSICM and the development of the prototype modules are in progress.

• J.-I. Odagiri, K. Akai, K. Furukawa, S. Michizono, T. Miura, T.T. Nakamura
  KEK, Ibaraki
• H. Deguchi, K. Hayashi, J. Mizuno, M. Ryoshi
  Mitsubishi Electric TOKKI Systems, Amagasaki, Hyogo

Gazing at SuperKEKB project, a new control subsystem was designed and implemented to upgrade the low level RF system of the KEKB accelerator based on Experimental and Industrial Control System (EPICS). The new control subsystem comprises a uTCA, a PLC, and an industrial PC. Each card plugged in the uTCA chassis and the PLC function as an embedded Input / Output Controller (IOC) by running the EPICS core program on the Linux operating system. The industrial PC runs Extensible Display Manger on Linux to serve as an Operator Interface (OPI). This paper describes the details of the design and the implementation of the fully embedded EPICS-based low level RF control subsystem for SuperKEKB.

• H. Takahashi, T. Kojima, S. Maebara, T. Narita, H. Sakaki, K. Tsutsumi
  JAEA, Rokkasho, Kamikita, Aomori

Control System for IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator prototype consists of the six subsystems; Central Control System (CCS), Local Area Network (LAN), Personnel Protection System (PPS), Machine Protection System (MPS), Timing System (TS) and Local Control System (LCS). The subsystems have been designed and their test benches been fabricated at JAEA. The IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator prototype provides a deuteron beam with the power more than 1 MW, which is as same as that in cases of J-PARC and SNS. In the control system, MPS and TS with high performance and precision are strongly required to avoid the radio-activation of the accelerator components. The prototypes of the MPS and TS are testing in conjunction with the injector test starting at CEA/Saclay from autumn in 2010. These results will feedback the design and the fabrication of the control components. This paper presents the development status of the TS modules and EPICS drivers for TS and MPS, and the prospects to apply them to the Injector test.

• S. Hatakeyama, N. Hayashi
  JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura
• D.A. Arakawa, Y. Hashimoto, S. Hiramatsu, J.-I. Odagiri, M. Tejima, M. Tobiyama, T. Toyama, N. Yamamoto
  KEK, Ibaraki
• K. Hanamura
  MELCO SC, Tsukuba
• K. Satou
  J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken

The Data Acquisition System of Beam Position Monitors(BPMs) in J-PARC Main Ring are consist of 186 Linux-based Data Processing Cirquits(BPMCs) and 12 EPICS IOCs. They are important tool to see the COD and turn-by-turn beam positions. This report describes the process of the data reconstruction which include how the various calibration constants are applied.

• L.R. Shen, D.K. Liu
  SINAP, Shanghai

SSRF control system is a hierarchical standard accelerator control system based on EPICS. The VME 64X system, special embedded controller and PLCs are used for low level devices control or interlocks system. Using a uniform 1000Base-T backbone redundancy control network instead of field bus for mostly device controller with VLAN technique adopted, and integrate with EPICS using soft IOC. Digital technology such as digital power supply control system, new event timing system and digital phase control system are used and also integrated with some embedded EPICS IOC. An uniform System development and run time environment of hardware and software is adopted at the whole process. The high level physical application environment using MatLab 2007a with Accelerator Toolbox (AT) & middle layer with MatLab CA (Channel Access) connected component MCA/LabCA. The high level physical application can be integrated with the control system easily and conveniently. With the SSRF centre database, an enhanced distributed archive engine based on RDBS with native XML data type is been testing.

• Y.B. Yan, Y.B. Leng
  SINAP, Shanghai

Soft IOC is an ideal solution for high level global application of accelerator control and beam diagnostics due to easy online modification and rebooting. SSRF beam diagnostics system employees two soft IOCs to handle global tasks such as BPMs group access, orbit performance analyze and online data reliability analyze, which are hardly performed in bottom level IOC side and OPI side. This paper introduces the current status and future upgrade plan.

• M. Eguiraun
  ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio
• I. Arredondo
  ESS Bilbao, Bilbao
• I. Badillo, J. Jugo
  University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao

The use of distributed control systems for improving control system's performance is a hot research topic. Thus, the importance of developing control systems across networked environment is rising, a lot of research is focused on developing middleware based solutions. On the other hand, EPICS is an extended control system middleware, which is based on TCP/UDP protocol. This protocol has non-deterministic characteristics, limiting its use for networked control systems. Despite of these characteristics, the interest on TCP based networks in industrial field has been increasing due to its advantages in cost and easy integration. In this work, EPICS as a networked control system is analyzed in order to develop strategies to improve its performance. For this purpose, an EPICS based networked control scheme is presented, where control loop is closed over the net. As opposed to usual way of working with EPICS, two IOCs are used located in different hosts. The first one performs data acquisition, while the second one calculates the control signal. The analysis and control performance study of such scheme is presented by using periodic sampling, as well as event based sampling approach.

• Y.K. Chen, J. Chen, Y.-S. Cheng, P.C. Chiu, K.T. Hsu, K.H. Hu, C.H. Kuo, C.Y. Wu
  NSRRC, Hsinchu

Modbus-TCP is a widely used in industry for a long time and accelerator control system recently. Modbus protocol over Ethernet has advantages for non real-time applications due to its maturity. The TPS (Taiwan Photon Source) project will have many Modbus-TCP enable devices which distributed in utility system and accelerator system. The accelerator control environment of TPS project is an EPICS toolkit based system. Modbus-TCP might adopt for some subsystems. There are several possible Modbus-TCP devices including the prototype power supply for magnet field mapping application equip with Modbus-TCP interface, vacuum system local controller, front-end controller, and some monitoring devices. In this paper, we will summarise preparation efforts to accommodate the Modbus-TCP support in the TPS control system.

• Y.-S. Cheng, J. Chen, Y.K. Chen, K.T. Hsu, K.H. Hu, C.H. Kuo, C.Y. Wu
  NSRRC, Hsinchu

To enhance waveform and spectrum remote access supports in the Taiwan Light Source (TLS), development of the EPICS support of Ethernet-based oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer for the TLS is under way. The EPICS platforms which built to interface these instruments could access the waveform and spectrum through the PV (Process Variable) channel access. By using remote operations of waveform and spectrum acquisition, long distance cabling could be eliminated and signal quality be improved. The EDM (Extensible Display Manager) tool is used to implement the operation interface of control console and provide waveform display. According to specific purpose use, different graphical user interfaces to integrate waveform and spectrum acquisition are built. This project is the preparation for future control room integration with the Taiwan Photon Source control room. The efforts will be described at this report.

• K.T. Hsu, Y.-T. Chang, J. Chen, Y.K. Chen, Y.-S. Cheng, P.C. Chiu, S.Y. Hsu, K.H. Hu, C.H. Kuo, D. Lee, Y.R. Pan, C.-J. Wang, C.Y. Wu
  NSRRC, Hsinchu

Implementation of the Control system for the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) is on going. The TPS control system will provide versatile environments for machine commissioning, operation, and to do accelerator experiments. The control system is based on EPICS toolkits. Test-bed has set up for various developments. The open architecture will facilitate machine upgrade, modification easily and minimize efforts for machine maintenance. Performance and reliability of the control system will be guaranteed from the design phase. Development status will be summary in this report.

• P.C. Chiu, J. Chen, Y.K. Chen, Y.-S. Cheng, K.T. Hsu, C.H. Kuo, C.Y. Wu
  NSRRC, Hsinchu

In order to help early development of TPS control system and user interface, a virtual accelerator model is constructed. The virtual accelerator has been created by AT toolbox and simulated beam behavior; the Middle Layer providing high level accelerator application is also used. LabCA interfaces between Matlab and EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System). Such a system could speed development of commissioning required software and examine the correction of all procedures.

• C.Y. Wu, J. Chen, Y.-S. Cheng, C.-S. Fann, K.T. Hsu, S.Y. Hsu, K.H. Hu, C.H. Kuo, D. Lee, K.-K. Lin
  NSRRC, Hsinchu
• K. Furukawa, J.-I. Odagiri
  KEK, Ibaraki

The EPICS embedded programmable logic controller (PLC) has been developed based on F3RP61-2L, a CPU module of a FA-M3R series PLC running Linux OS. The EPICS IOC resided in F3RP61-2L module can access the registers of sequence CPU modules and I/O modules of the PLC. The embedded EPICS PLC was applied to control the prototype of pulse magnet power supply and support functionality testing remotely. The system comprises various input/output modules and a CPU module with built-in Ethernet interface. The control information (status of the power supply, ON, OFF, warn up, reset, read/write voltage, etc.) can be accessed remotely using EPICS client tools. The EDM is selected to develop the GUI for itself. Efforts are summarized in this report.

• C.M. Gulliford, I.V. Bazarov, J. Dobbins, R.M. Talman
  CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
• N. Malitsky
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York

Commissioning of the high brightness photoinjector for the Energy Recovery Linac at Cornell University continues. To aid in this process we have developed a 'Virtual Accelerator' application, which provides the beam physicist with an online high-level physics description of the machine. This application combines a linear optics model called Numerical Transfer Matrix (NTMAT), developed at Cornell, and EPICS-DDS, a middle-layer software based on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) toolkit and the Data Distribution Service (DDS) data-centric publish/subscribe model. We present the initial results of implementing this new software tool and its deployment in the Cornell ERL injector control room.

• G.B. Shen
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• P. Chu, J. Wu
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• M.R. Kraimer
  ANL, Argonne

A modular environment for beam commissioning and operation is under development, which is based on the client/server model. The service oriented architecture consists of a server for each supported service. At NSLS-II, a so-called "virtual accelerator" has been developed, which wraps simulator engines such as Tracy and Elegant onto an EPICS system. However, with the current solution, access to data is not flexible. We are designing a new online simulator server using structured data to provide a flexible method for accessing the simulation data. This paper describes recent results of the simulator server development.

• G.B. Shen, L. Yang
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• M.R. Kraimer
  ANL, Argonne

A fundamental infrastructure of software framework for beam commissioning for NSLS-II storage ring is in development. It adopts client/server model, and consists of various servers for data communication and management. Based on this structure, some physics applications are developed to satisfy the requirements of day-1 beam commissioning. This paper describes our status of infrastructure development and its applications.

• P. Hartmann, S. Khan, D. Schirmer, G. Schünemann, P. Towalski, T. Weis
  DELTA, Dortmund

A stable beam orbit is essential for safe operation of particle accelerators. This applies to electron machines and even more to hadron machines running high beam currents. Based on developments at DELTA, basic designs of fast orbit feedbacks systems for the FAIR rings SIS18 and HESR (planned) and COSY at the Forschungszentrum Jülich are presented.

• C.H. Kuo, J. Chen, P.C. Chiu, K.T. Hsu, K.H. Hu
  NSRRC, Hsinchu

As the latest generation light source, TPS (Taiwan Photon Source) has stringent requirements to perform submicron beam stability with low emittance. The slow and fast correctors of integrated orbit feedback system have been designed for TPS project, therefore some feedback system designed based on them an operation experiences from TLS. This report will present performance simulation and the initial design of system infrastructure for large scale calculation and wide bandwidth communication. To perform this requirement, FPGA-based platform will be implemented to achieve low latency and fast computation. Some studies of integrated feedback loop, communication structure, devices control such as BPM electronics and corrector power supplies are also described.

• M. Gu, R. Chen, Z.H. Chen, G.-Y. Jiang, R. Wang, Q. Yuan
  SINAP, Shanghai

The undulator controller based on Siemens S7-300 PLC is mainly consisted of controlling motion of two stepper motor, monitoring real-time gap position of upstream and downstream through position feedback derived from four linear absolute encoders (LAEs) with 0.1μm resolution, monitoring cooling water's temperature and flux (CWTF), monitoring magnet array temperature (MAT), providing remote access for EPICS via Ethernet, as well as MPS and PPS interlock interface to and from upper-level protection system. In addition, the controller is equipped with considerate motion safety protection tactics. As for the gap position protection, besides mechanical hard stop, software limit, photo-interrupter limit and kill switch are available to achieve it. As for the taper protection, software limit is available to achieve it.

• Y. Yamamoto, H. Hayano, E. Kako, S. Noguchi, M. Sato, T. Shishido, K. Umemori, K. Watanabe
  KEK, Ibaraki

Vertical test for 1.3GHz 9-cell cavity has been routinely carried out over one year since 2008 in KEK-STF. Temperature mapping (T-mapping) system using 352 carbon resistors was introduced to identify the heating location at thermal quenching of the cavity. T-mapping system in STF identified perfectly the heating location in every vertical test for S1-Global project. As X-ray-mapping system, 142 PIN diodes were used, and the x-ray emission site was detected under heavy field emission. During the vertical test, it is convenient to display the result of T-mapping and X-ray-mapping by online monitor system. For this purpose, the new online monitor system was developed by using EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) and Java script, and introduced in recent several vertical tests. As a data acquisition system, nine data loggers (MW100, YOKOGAWA) are used, and signals from totally 540 channels are stored every 0.1 sec. The online display for T-mapping and X-ray-mapping is updated automatically every 5 seconds. In this report, the summary of T-mapping/X-ray-mapping result and the online monitor system will be described in detail.

• T.A. Treado, P. Brown, S. Evans, M.E. Marks
  CPI, Beverley, Massachusetts

The VIL409 Heatwave IOT-based RF amplifier was designed to meet the requirements of the EMMA accelerator at the Daresbury Laboratory. The VIL409 was successfully commissioned in September 2009. The VIL409 provides up to 90 kW RF output power ver a 5.5 MHz bandwidth centered at 1.3 GHz. It operates at a fixed 1.6 millisecond pulse at up to 20 Hz. Within limits, the user has control of the IOT beam voltage and the IOT grid bias voltage. Normal operation is to achieve smooth control of the output via the LLRF input alone. The IOT grid may be pulsed or operated at a constant voltage; pulsing achieves greatly enhanced energy efficiency. The VIL409 has an embedded processor that controls all internal functions of the amplifier system and interfaces directly to the EPICS control system. The embedded controller provides real-time pulse data to EPICS and operates slow-moving interlocks. Safety and IOT-protective interlocks are hard-wire circuits which operate in the microsecond timeframe. The VIL409 can be operated locally or controlled remotely on the EPICS controls network. This paper describes the VIL409 high power RF amplifier system.

• F. Méot
  CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
• J.S. Berg
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• Y. Giboudot
  Brunel University, Middlesex
• D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida
  STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
• B.J.A. Shepherd
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• S.C. Tygier
  UMAN, Manchester

The EMMA (Electron Model for Many Applications) FFAG experiment at Daresbury will involve on-line modeling (a ‘‘Virtual EMMA'') based on stepwise ray-tracing methods. Various aspects of the code of concern and of its interfacing to real world - machine and users - are addressed.