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RIS citation export for MOPGF058: Neutron Scattering Instrument Control System Modernization - Front-End Hardware and Software Adaption Problems

TY - CONF
AU - Drochner, M.
AU - Fleischhauer-Fuss, L.
AU - Kleines, H.
AU - Wagener, M.
AU - van Waasen, S.
ED - Corvetti, Lou
ED - Riches, Kathleen
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - Neutron Scattering Instrument Control System Modernization - Front-End Hardware and Software Adaption Problems
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 - When the FRM-2 neutron source went into operation (2002) and many instruments were moved from the closed-down Jülich reactor to the new facility, it was agreed on a choice of front-end hardware and the TACO middleware from ESRF. To keep up with software standards, it was decided recently to switch to TACO's successor - the TANGO control software. For a unified "user experience", new graphical user interface software "NICOS-2" is being developed by the software group at FRM2. While general semantics of TACO and TANGO don't look very different at a first glance, and adaption of device servers seemed to be straightforward at first, various problems in practical operation were found. The problems were due to differences in state handling, timing behavior and error reporting. These problems, and the changes that had to be made to ensure reliable operation again, will be described.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 233
EP - 235
KW - TANGO
KW - device-server
KW - controls
KW - detector
KW - software
DA - 2015/12
PY - 2015
SN - 978-3-95450-148-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-MOPGF058
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/mopgf058.pdf
ER -