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Control Systems for Accelerators: Operational Tools

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Today engineers designing, building, modifying or migrating control systems for accelerators or large physics experiments have free access to very mature, adaptable, reliable, and high-performance control system toolkits, which have been developed by professional, global collaborations. Interconnectivity between the different control systems is well developed, even industrial vendors provide their devices “control system ready”. With respect to software and networking, an abundance of solutions and applications is already available. But the collaborative power of sharing, effort and success fades as it comes to non-standardized hardware. FPGA-based boards and recent attempts, like the “open hardware initiative”, might move this frontier and open up uncharted waters.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In the following control system is frequently used as a synonym for the complex domain-specific IT infrastructure, even if it has a wider scope.

  2. 2.

    An arbitrary list in no particular order: Intellution, Rockwell Software, Wonderware, Citect, GE/Fanuc, Siemens, Iconics, USDATA, National Instruments, Indusoft, Think & Do.

  3. 3.

    CERN, Soleil, GSI, Brazilian Light Source, University of Bristol, Warsaw University of Technology, University of Zurich, University of Pavia, Rockefeller University, University of Cape Town, Heidelberg University

Abbreviations

ACOP:

Advanced Component Oriented Programming

ALS:

Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, USA

ANL:

Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA

API:

Application Programming Interface

APS:

Advanced Photon Source, ANL

ASIC:

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

BESSY:

Berliner ElectronenSpeicherring Gesellschaft für SYnchrotronstrahlung, Berlin, Germany

BOY:

Best Operator interface Yet

BEAST:

The Best Ever Alarm System Toolkit

CAMAC:

Computer Automated Measurement And Control

CERN:

Conseil Europén pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva

COACK:

Component Oriented Advanced Control Kernel

CSS:

Control System Studio

DESY:

Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany

dm2k:

Display Manager 2000

DMZ:

DeMilitarized Zone

DSP:

Digital Signal Processor

edm:

Extensible Display Manager

ELI-ALPS:

Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) - Attosecond Light Pulse Source

EPICS:

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

FPGA:

Field Programmable Gate Array

GIS:

Geographical Information System

GTACS:

Ground Test Accelerator Control System

HDL:

Hardware Definition Language

HERA:

Hadron–Elektron-Ring-Anlage, DESY

HMI:

Human–Machine Interface

IBIC:

International Beam Instrumentation Conference

ICALEPCS:

International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems

IOC:

Input–Output Controller

ISOLDE:

Isotope Separator On Line DEtector, CERN

JaCOW:

Joint Accelerator Conferences Website

jddd:

Java DOOCS Data Display

KEK:

kō-enerugī kasokuki kenkyū kikō, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

KVM:

Keyboard Video Mouse

LCLS:

Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC, Stanford, USA

LINAC:

LINear ACcelerator

LTS:

Long-Term Support

LVDS:

Low-Voltage Differential Signaling

medm:

Motif Editor and Display Manager

NSLS:

National Synchrotron Light Source

PCaPAC:

PC at Particle Accelerator Conference

PCB:

Printed Circuit Board

PLC:

Programmable Logic Controller

PVSS:

ProzessVisualisierungs- und SteuerungsSystem

RCP:

Rich Client Platform

RDB:

Relational DataBase

SACLA:

SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser

SerDes:

Serializer Deserializer

SLS:

Swiss Light Source, PSI, Switzerland

SoC:

System on Chip

SSC:

Superconducting Super Collider, Texas, USA

VME:

Versa Module Eurocard

VXI:

VME eXtension for Instrumentation

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Müller, R. (2016). Control Systems for Accelerators: Operational Tools. In: Jaeschke, E., Khan, S., Schneider, J., Hastings, J. (eds) Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14394-1_17

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