ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Kalantari, B.)

Paper

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Current Status and Perspectives of the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility Control System

378

P. Chevtsov, D.A. Armstrong, M. Dach, E.J. Divall, M. Heiniger, C.E. Higgs, M. Janousch, G. Janser, G. Jud, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, T. Korhonen, R.A. Krempaska, M.P. Laznovsky, A.C. Mezger, V. Ovinnikov, W. Portmann, D. Vermeulen
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) Injector Test Facility at Paul Scherrer Institute has been in operations for more than three years. The Injector Test Facility machine is a valuable development and validation platform for all major SwissFEL subsystems including controls. Based on the experience gained from the Test Facility operations support, the paper presents current and some perspective controls solutions focusing on the future SwissFEL project.

Poster MOPPC112 [1.224 MB]

TUPPC066

10 Years of Experiment Control at SLS Beam Lines: an Outlook to SwissFEL

729

J. Krempaský, U. Flechsig, B. Kalantari, X.Q. Wang
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
T. Mooney
ANL, Argonne, USA
M.L. Rivers
CARS, Argonne, Ilinois, USA

Today, after nearly 10 years of consolidated user operation at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) with up to 18 beam lines, we are looking back to briefly describe the success story based on EPICS controls toolkit and give an outlook towards the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL, the next challenging PSI project. We focus on SLS spectroscopy beam lines with experimental setups rigorously based on the SynApps "Positioner-Trigger-Detector" (PTD) anatomy [2]. We briefly describe the main beam line “Positioners” used inside the PTD concept. On the “Detector” side an increased effort is made to standardize the control within the areaDetector (AD) software package [3]. For the SwissFEL two detectors are envisaged: the Gotthard 1D and Jungfrau 2D pixel detectors, both built at PSI. Consistently with the PTD-anatomy, their control system framework based on the AD package is in preparation. In order to guarantee data acquisition with the SwissFEL nominal 100 Hz rate, the “Trigger” is interconnected with the SwissFEL timing system to guarantee shot-to-shot operation [4]. The AD plug-in concept allows significant data reduction; we believe this opens the doors towards on-line FEL experiments.
[1] Krempaský et al, ICALEPCS 2001
[2] www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/index.php
[3] M. Rivers, SRI 2009, Melbourne
[4] B. Kalantari et al, ICALEPCS 2011

WECOCB05

Modern Technology in Disguise

1032

T. Korhonen, D. Anicic, B. Kalantari, R. Kalt, M.P. Laznovsky, T. Schilcher, D. Zimoch
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

A modern embedded system for fast systems has to incorporate technologies like multicore CPUs, fast serial links and FPGAs for interfaces and local processing. Those technologies are still relatively new and integrating them in a control system infrastructure that either exists already or has to be planned for long-term maintainability is a challenge that needs to be addressed. At PSI we have, in collaboration with an industrial company (IOxOS SA)[*], built a board and infrastructure around it solving issues like scalability and modularization of systems that are based on FPGAs and the FMC standard, simplicity in taking such a board in operation and re-using parts of the source code base for FPGA. In addition the board has several state-of-the-art features that are typically found in the newer bus systems like MicroTCA, but can still easily be incorporated in our VME64x-based infrastructure. In the presentation we will describe the system architecture, its technical features and how it enables us to effectively develop our different user applications and fast front-end systems.
* IOxOS SA, Gland, Switzerland, http://www.ioxos ch

Slides WECOCB05 [0.675 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPC112	Current Status and Perspectives of the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility Control System	378
	P. Chevtsov, D.A. Armstrong, M. Dach, E.J. Divall, M. Heiniger, C.E. Higgs, M. Janousch, G. Janser, G. Jud, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, T. Korhonen, R.A. Krempaska, M.P. Laznovsky, A.C. Mezger, V. Ovinnikov, W. Portmann, D. Vermeulen PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	The Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) Injector Test Facility at Paul Scherrer Institute has been in operations for more than three years. The Injector Test Facility machine is a valuable development and validation platform for all major SwissFEL subsystems including controls. Based on the experience gained from the Test Facility operations support, the paper presents current and some perspective controls solutions focusing on the future SwissFEL project.
	Poster MOPPC112 [1.224 MB]

TUPPC066	10 Years of Experiment Control at SLS Beam Lines: an Outlook to SwissFEL	729
	J. Krempaský, U. Flechsig, B. Kalantari, X.Q. Wang PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland T. Mooney ANL, Argonne, USA M.L. Rivers CARS, Argonne, Ilinois, USA
	Today, after nearly 10 years of consolidated user operation at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) with up to 18 beam lines, we are looking back to briefly describe the success story based on EPICS controls toolkit and give an outlook towards the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL, the next challenging PSI project. We focus on SLS spectroscopy beam lines with experimental setups rigorously based on the SynApps "Positioner-Trigger-Detector" (PTD) anatomy [2]. We briefly describe the main beam line “Positioners” used inside the PTD concept. On the “Detector” side an increased effort is made to standardize the control within the areaDetector (AD) software package [3]. For the SwissFEL two detectors are envisaged: the Gotthard 1D and Jungfrau 2D pixel detectors, both built at PSI. Consistently with the PTD-anatomy, their control system framework based on the AD package is in preparation. In order to guarantee data acquisition with the SwissFEL nominal 100 Hz rate, the “Trigger” is interconnected with the SwissFEL timing system to guarantee shot-to-shot operation [4]. The AD plug-in concept allows significant data reduction; we believe this opens the doors towards on-line FEL experiments. [1] Krempaský et al, ICALEPCS 2001 [2] www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/index.php [3] M. Rivers, SRI 2009, Melbourne [4] B. Kalantari et al, ICALEPCS 2011

WECOCB05	Modern Technology in Disguise	1032
	T. Korhonen, D. Anicic, B. Kalantari, R. Kalt, M.P. Laznovsky, T. Schilcher, D. Zimoch PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	A modern embedded system for fast systems has to incorporate technologies like multicore CPUs, fast serial links and FPGAs for interfaces and local processing. Those technologies are still relatively new and integrating them in a control system infrastructure that either exists already or has to be planned for long-term maintainability is a challenge that needs to be addressed. At PSI we have, in collaboration with an industrial company (IOxOS SA)[], built a board and infrastructure around it solving issues like scalability and modularization of systems that are based on FPGAs and the FMC standard, simplicity in taking such a board in operation and re-using parts of the source code base for FPGA. In addition the board has several state-of-the-art features that are typically found in the newer bus systems like MicroTCA, but can still easily be incorporated in our VME64x-based infrastructure. In the presentation we will describe the system architecture, its technical features and how it enables us to effectively develop our different user applications and fast front-end systems. IOxOS SA, Gland, Switzerland, http://www.ioxos ch
	Slides WECOCB05 [0.675 MB]