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TY - CONF AU - Monera Martinez, A. AU - Andersson, R. AU - Hilbes, C. AU - Nordt, A. AU - Zaera-Sanz, M. ED - Corvetti, Lou ED - Riches, Kathleen ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Overview and Design Status of the Fast Beam Interlock System at ESS 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 - The ESS, consisting of a pulsed proton linear accelerator, a rotating spallation target designed for an average beam power of up to 5 MW, and a suite of neutron instruments, requires a large variety of instrumentation, both for controlling as well as protecting the different hardware systems and the beam. The ESS beam power is unprecedented and an uncontrolled release could lead to serious damage of equipment installed along the tunnel and target station within only a few microseconds. Major failures of certain equipment will result in long repair times, because it is delicate and difficult to access and sometimes located in high radiation areas. To optimize the operational efficiency of the facility, accidents should be avoided and interruptions should be rare and limited to a short time. Hence, a sophisticated machine protection system is required. In order to stop efficiently the proton beam production in case of failures, a Fast Beam Interlock (FBI) system with a targeted reaction time of less than 5 microseconds and very high dependability is being designed. The design approach for this FPGA-based interlock system will be presented as well as the status on prototyping. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 409 EP - 412 KW - interface KW - FPGA KW - operation KW - linac KW - electronics DA - 2015/12 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-148-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-MOPGF138 UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/mopgf138.pdf ER -