Author: Gaspar, C.
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MOPGF052 A Framework for Hardware Integration in the LHCb Experiment Control System 221
 
  • L.G. Cardoso, F. Alessio, J. Barbosa, C. Gaspar, R. Schwemmer
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • P-Y. Duval
    CPPM, Marseille, France
  
  LHCb is one of the four ex­per­i­ments at the LHC ac­cel­er­a­tor at CERN. For the LHCb up­grade, hun­dreds of new elec­tron­ics boards for the cen­tral data ac­qui­si­tion and for the front-end read­out of the dif­fer­ent sub-de­tec­tors are being de­vel­oped. These de­vices will need to be in­te­grated in the Ex­per­i­ment Con­trol Sys­tem (ECS) that dri­ves LHCb. Typ­i­cally, they are con­trolled via a server run­ning on a PC which al­lows the com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the hard­ware reg­is­ters and the ex­per­i­ment SCADA (WinCC OA). A set of tools was de­vel­oped that pro­vide an easy in­te­gra­tion of the con­trol and mon­i­tor­ing of the de­vices in the ECS. The fwHw is a tool that al­lows the ab­strac­tion of the de­vice mod­els into the ECS. Using XML files de­scrib­ing the struc­ture and reg­is­ters of the de­vices it cre­ates the nec­es­sary model of the hard­ware as a data struc­ture in the SCADA. It al­lows then the con­trol and mon­i­tor­ing of the de­fined reg­is­ters using their name, with­out the need to know the de­tails of the hard­ware be­hind. The fwHw tool also pro­vides the fa­cil­ity of defin­ing and ap­ply­ing recipes - named sets of con­fig­u­ra­tion pa­ra­me­ters which can be used to eas­ily con­fig­ure the hard­ware ac­cord­ing to spe­cific needs.  
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