Author: Rijllart, A.
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TUPPC095 Low Cost FFT Scope using LabVIEW cRIO and FPGA 801
 
  • O.O. Andreassen, L. Arnaudon, I.T. Matasaho, A. Rijllart
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  At CERN, many digitizers and scopes are starting to age and should be replaced. Much of the equipment is custom made or not available on the market anymore. Replacing this equipment with the equivalent of today would either be time consuming or expensive. This paper looks at the pros and cons of using COTS systems like NI-cRIO and NI-PXIe and their FPGA capabilities as flexible instruments, replacing costly spectrum analyzers and older scopes. It adds some insight on what had to be done to integrate and deploy the equipment in the unique CERN infrastructure, and the added value of having a fully customizable platform, that makes it possible to stream, store and align the data without any additional equipment.  
poster icon Poster TUPPC095 [5.250 MB]  
 
TUPPC117 Unifying Data Diversity and Conversion to Common Engineering Analysis Tools 852
 
  • H. Reymond, O.O. Andreassen, C. Charrondière, M.F. Gomez De La Cruz, A. Rijllart
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The large variety of systems for the measurements of insulation, conductivity, RRR, quench performance, etc. installed at CERN’s superconducting magnet test facility generates a diversity of data formats. This mixture causes problems when the measurements need to be correlated. Each measurement application has a dedicated data analysis tool used to validate its results, but there are no generic bridge between the applications that facilitates cross analysis of mixed data and data types. Since the LHC start-up, the superconducting magnet test facility hosts new R&D measurements on a multitude of superconducting components. These results are analysed by international collaborators, which triggered a greater need to access the raw data from many typical engineering and analysis tools, such as MATLAB®, Mathcad®, DIAdem™, Excel™… This paper describes the technical solutions developed for the data formats unification and reviews the present status.  
poster icon Poster TUPPC117 [11.140 MB]