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RIS citation export for MOPGF057: Quick Experiment Automation Made Possible Using FPGA in LNLS

TY - CONF
AU - Donadio, M.P.
AU - Piton, J.R.
AU - de Almeida, H.D.
ED - Corvetti, Lou
ED - Riches, Kathleen
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - Quick Experiment Automation Made Possible Using FPGA in LNLS
J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2015, Melbourne, Australia, 17-23 October 2015
C1 - Melbourne, Australia
T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3 - 15
LA - english
AB - Beamlines in LNLS are being modernized to use the synchrotron light as efficiently as possible. As the photon flux increases, experiment speed constraints become more visible to the user. Experiment control has been done by ordinary computers, under a conventional operating system, running high-level software written in most common programming languages. This architecture presents some time issues as computer is subject to interruptions from input devices like mouse, keyboard or network. The programs quickly became the bottleneck of the experiment. To improve experiment control and automation speed, we transferred software algorithms to a FPGA device. FPGAs are semiconductor devices based around a matrix of logic blocks reconfigurable by software. The results of using a NI Compact RIO device with FPGA programmed through LabVIEW for adopting this technology and future improvements are briefly shown in this paper.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 229
EP - 232
KW - FPGA
KW - software
KW - experiment
KW - Linux
KW - EPICS
DA - 2015/12
PY - 2015
SN - 978-3-95450-148-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-MOPGF057
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/mopgf057.pdf
ER -