TY - CONF AU - White, G.R. AU - Cobb, T.M. AU - Dalesio, L.R. AU - Davidsaver, M.A. AU - Hartman, S.M. AU - Hickin, D.G. AU - Johnson, A.N. AU - Junkes, H. AU - Kasemir, K.-U. AU - Konrad, M.G. AU - Korhonen, T. AU - Kraimer, M.R. AU - Lange, R. AU - Pearson, M.R. AU - Rivers, M.L. AU - Sekoranja, M. AU - Shankar, M.V. AU - Shen, G. AU - Shroff, K. AU - Veseli, S. AU - Vodopivec, K. AU - Zimoch, D. ED - Boland, Mark ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Button, David ED - Dowd, Rohan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tan, Eugene TI - The EPICS Software Framework Moves from Controls to Physics J2 - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019 CY - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 10 LA - english AB - The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS), is an open-source software framework for high-performance distributed control, and is at the heart of many of the world’s large accelerators and telescopes. Recently, EPICS has undergone a major revision, with the aim of better computing supporting for the next generation of machines and analytical tools. Many new data types, such as matrices, tables, images, and statistical descriptions, plus users’ own data types, now supplement the simple scalar and waveform types of the former EPICS. New computational architectures for scientific computing have been added for high-performance data processing services and pipelining. Python and Java bindings have enabled powerful new user interfaces. The result has been that controls are now being integrated with modelling and simulation, machine learning, enterprise databases, and experiment DAQs. We introduce this new EPICS (version 7) from the perspective of accelerator physics and review early adoption cases in accelerators around the world. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1216 EP - 1218 KW - EPICS KW - controls KW - detector KW - database KW - experiment DA - 2019/06 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-208-0 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-TUZZPLM3 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/tuzzplm3.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Kamerdzhiev, V. AU - Bekman, I. AU - Böhme, C. AU - Gebel, R. AU - Lorentz, B. AU - Modic, R. AU - Niedermayer, P. AU - Oven, Ž. AU - Simon, M. AU - Thelen, M. ED - Boland, Mark ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Button, David ED - Dowd, Rohan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tan, Eugene TI - Progress of the Machine Control Upgrade at COSY/JüLICH J2 - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019 CY - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 10 LA - english AB - The Cooler Synchrotron COSY operated at the Research Center Jülich is undergoing staged machine control upgrades driven by the requirements of the JEDI (Jülich Electric Dipole moment Investigations) collaboration. The upgrades aim towards better beam control e.g. beam orbit, tune, and chromaticity control improvements. A better orbit control was achieved through the upgrade of BPM electronics and migration from initial Tcl/Tk based control system to Control System Studio (CSS) utilizing EPICS. Currently, a design for improved beam tune control is in development. The main part of work is the transition towards a faster and less restrictive magnet control. It further includes improved tune measurement tools as well as the migration of control for quadrupole magnets to EPICS. Ultimately the control of all systems should be centralized around EPICS to enable ease of operation, automation, setup of services, etc. The decision path, technical details of the upgrade and performance of the upgraded sub-systems are presented. We also showcase how the COSY team’s physics and research goals are complemented by Cosylab’s technical design and implementation to form a synergetic collaboration. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2473 EP - 2476 KW - controls KW - EPICS KW - operation KW - experiment KW - quadrupole DA - 2019/06 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-208-0 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPGW007 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/wepgw007.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Modic, R. AU - Della Faille, P. AU - Mekuc, P. AU - Vandeplassche, D. ED - Boland, Mark ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Button, David ED - Dowd, Rohan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tan, Eugene TI - MYRRHA DAQ Development J2 - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019 CY - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 10 LA - english AB - An approach to a generic Data Acquisition (DAQ) solution for the MYRRHA test stand at Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) will be described in this paper. Need for better sampling performance, signal quality, arbitrary processing and storage of measurements was a motivation for this work. A full integration of the DAQ system in the global EPICS control environment was a strong requirement. An intermediate DAQ platform was put in place to satisfy the control and experiment needs. The NI PXI platform is selected to minimize integration and development effort. NI LabVIEW is used to create a generic DAQ application. CALab library supported by BESSY is used to connect LabVIEW and EPICS. CSS GUI provides the user with the necessary control, visualization and configuration capability. The technical and organizational approach to the collaboration will be detailed in the paper. Necessary customizations of CSS and CALab and experience on using NI PXI for DAQ platform will be explained. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2645 EP - 2646 KW - controls KW - EPICS KW - GUI KW - LabView KW - software DA - 2019/06 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-208-0 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPGW074 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/wepgw074.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Šuštar, T. AU - Bucher, P. AU - Modic, R. AU - Theidel, G. ED - Boland, Mark ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Button, David ED - Dowd, Rohan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tan, Eugene TI - A Novel Approach to Triggering and Beam Synchronous Data Acquisition J2 - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019 CY - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 10 LA - english AB - SwissFEL, the new Free-Electron Laser facility is a 740 m long accelerator with the goal of providing pulses of light between 6 and 30 fs long at a wavelength of 1 to 7 Å at 100 Hz*. To support shot-to-shot photon diagnostic* and link the measurements to other measurements along the machine that belong to the same machine pulse, a new triggering and data acquisition system was developed. A new protocol was introduced which allows deterministic triggering, configuration and data transfer via one full-duplex optical connection. The measurement data is stamped with an unique pulse identifier, delivered from the SwisFEL Timing System**. A readout and control interface was developed to support data delivery to the Data Acquisition Dispatching Layer* and for controlling the system. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 4224 EP - 4227 KW - FPGA KW - controls KW - interface KW - EPICS KW - data-acquisition DA - 2019/06 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-208-0 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPTS054 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/thpts054.pdf ER -