Embedded Control System for Programmable Multi-Purpose Instruments

Broseta, Manuel; Avila-Abellan, Jose; Blanch-Torné, Sergi; Cuní, Guifre; Fernández-Carreiras, David; Matilla, Oscar; Moldes, Jairo; Rodriguez, Marc; Rubio-Manrique, Sergi; Salabert, Jordi; Serra-Gallifa, Xavier

doi:10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2016-THDAPLCO01

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TY - CONF
AU - Broseta, M.
AU - Avila-Abellan, J.A.
AU - Blanch-Torné, S.
AU - Cuní, G.
AU - Fernández-Carreiras, D.
AU - Matilla, O.
AU - Moldes, J.
AU - Rodriguez, M.
AU - Rubio-Manrique, S.
AU - Salabert, J.
AU - Serra-Gallifa, X.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - Embedded Control System for Programmable Multi-Purpose Instruments
J2 - Proc. of PCaPAC2016, Campinas, Brazil, October 2528, 2016
C1 - Campinas, Brazil
T2 - International Workshop on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls
T3 - 11
LA - english
AB - At ALBA's Computing Division, we have started the development of a high-performant electrometer (Em# project) as a versatile and customizable equipment. It is based on a SPEC board (simple PCIe FMC carrier) with customizable FMC cards and an Single Board Computer, altogether built in a single cost-optimized instrument. The whole device is designed to provide a wide range of functionalities to fulfill unique and complex experiments by means of configuration changes instead of having specific instruments. Within the controls software development group, we started the development of a full embedded control software, based on a Linux OS that communicates with the SPEC's FPGA using the PCIe bus. This approach allows the integration of complex operations and functions in real time to higher software layers, as well as the local control, setup and diagnostics via integrated touch-screen display controlled by I2C. The system provides also SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) allowing an easy integration to any control system. This paper describes the design process, main aspects of the data acquisition and the expected benefits during the integration in the Control System.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 80
EP - 83
KW - ion
KW - controls
KW - FPGA
KW - software
KW - Linux
DA - 2017/09
PY - 2017
SN - 978-3-95450-189-2
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2016-THDAPLCO01
UR - http://jacow.org/pcapac2016/papers/thdaplco01.pdf
ER -