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A VME based control system has been developed and built at CERN for the servo loops regulating the field in linac accelerating structures. It is an all-digital system built on a single VME card, providing digital detection, processing, and modulation. It is foreseen to be used, in different versions, for the needs of both present and future CERN hadron linacs. The first application will be in the energy ramping RF chain of the CERN Heavy Ion Linac (linac 3). In addition to regulating the cavity field, the system incorporates the measurement and control of the cavity resonance as well as an imbedded loop stabilizing the gain and the phase of the final amplifier operating near saturation. The design principle and the experimental results are described.
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