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| MOPHA052 | Evolution Based on MicroTCA and MRF Timing System | 334 |
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| For many years our Institute CEA IRFU has had a sound experience in VME and EPICS. For the accelerator projects SPIRAL2 at Ganil in Normandy and IFMIF/LIPAc at JAEA/Rokkasho (Japan) the EPICS control systems were based on VME. For 5 years our Institute has been involved in several in-kind collaboration contracts with ESS. For the first contracts (ESS test stands, Source and LEBT controls) ESS recommended us to use VME based solutions on IOxOS boards. Our close collaboration with ESS, their support and the requirements for new projects have led us to develop a standardized hardware and software platform called IRFU EPICS Environment based on microTCA.4 and MRF timing system. This paper describes the advantages of the combination of these recent technologies and the local control system architectures in progress for the SARAF project. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA052 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 30 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 11 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020 | |
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| WEPHA040 | IRFU EPICS Environment | 1172 |
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The 3 years collaboration with ESS* at Lund (Sweden) has given us the opportunity to use new COTS hardware and new tools. Based on that experience, we have developed the IEE (IRFU** EPICS Environment) by retaining relevant and scalable ESS solutions. This platform centralized several functionalities, fully installed by scripting, on a server that is running on a virtual machine. The functionalities are an EPICS environment and the root file system with the kernel for each embedded systems. In order to provide homogeneous EPICS modules between all collaborators, a template was designed and used as containers for new developments. Furthermore, a development and a production workflow is also proposed and strongly recommended. Due to the current responsibility of CEA IRFU to provide an EPICS platform for SARAF** at Tel Aviv (Israel), IEE was chosen as the standard platform for the whole accelerator. This paper will present the new standard IRFU EPICS Environment based on MTCA and virtual machines.
*ESS, https://europeanspallationsource.se/ **IRFU, https://irfu.cea.fr/en/ ***SARAF, http://soreq.gov.il/mmg/eng/Pages/SARAF-Facility.aspx |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA040 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 27 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 19 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020 | |
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| THAPP04 | EPICS Tools for Small Experiment Based on PLC | 1549 |
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IRFU* software control team is involved from feasibility studies to equipment deployment into many different experiments by their size and running time. For many years, IRFU is using PLC solution for controlling part of the experiment, and two different SCADA: - MUSCADE, in-house SCADA dedicated to small experiments. - EPICS** for big facilities. With MUSCADE, IRFU has developed a set of tools that gives an easy and a fast way for PLC developers to configure the SCADA. As EPICS projects are growing in our department, we are working now on adapting those tools to EPICS: - PLCParser, which generates an EPICS database for PLC communication (S7PLC, Modbus). - CAFEJava (Channel Access For EPICS Java) API, which runs a simulated EPICS IOC to test EPICS synoptic, and provides EPICS process variables access for any Java application. - Dxf2Opi, which converts Autocad DXF files into OPI files for CSS*** software. - MOONARCH (Memory Optimizer ON ARCHiver Appliance), which reduces EPICS Archiver Appliance**** data files storage.
*IRFU, http://irfu.cea.fr **EPICS, https://epics-controls.org ***CSS, https://controlsystemstudio.org ****Archiver Appliance https://slacmshankar.github.io/epicsarchiverdocs |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-THAPP04 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 11 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 11 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020 | |
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