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| WEP038 |
CompactPCI Express for Control Applications
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- H. Kleines, M. Drochner, W. Erven, M. Ramm
FZJ, Jülich
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CompactPCI (CPCI) is well established in control applications as a standard for industrial PCs and as a standard for front-end instrumentation, e.g. by means of the transparent optical PCI/CPCI Bridge MXI-4 from National Instruments. In both application areas increasing performance requirements ask for a replacement of the parallel CPCI bus by a backplane based on high speed serial links, similar to the replacement of PCI by PCIe in the desktop environment. CompactPCI Express (CPCIe) and its derivative PXI Express (PXIe) both provide a smooth and cost-efficient transition path from CPCI to high speed serial links on the backplane. Forschungszentrum Jülich has developed a CPCIe carrier board for CMC daughter modules that is compatible to the SIS1100 boards from company Struck Innovative Systeme. The CPCIe carrierboard is based on a single lane PCIe implementation with the PEX8311 ASIC from PLX. A development environment has been setup, that consists of crates from Schroff, CPUs from MEN and the transparent electrical PXIe/PCIe bridge MXI-Express from National Instruments. The design and application of the new board as well first experiences with the new technology are presented.
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| THP030 |
New Developments for the JCNS Neutron Scattering Instruments
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- M. Drochner, A. Erven, L. Fleischhauer-Fuss, J. Heinen, H. Kleines, D. Korolkov, S. Mattauch, M. Monkenbusch, M. Wagener
FZJ, Jülich
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Since the Juelich 'Dido' research reactor was shut down 5 years ago, the larger part of its neutron scattering instruments was moved to the new FRM2 neutron source at Munich, and some newly constructed. While we used a set of standard components as far as feasible, we had to accept some compromises due to the time pressure to get things going. In particular, we have a number of different graphical and command-line user interfaces now which is difficult to handle for users who work on multiple instruments. After the initial rush, we are now working towards some consolidation, both on a common GUI philosophy and a high-level scripting language. The design of the new user interface will be presented.
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Poster
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