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| THCOMA01 | Progress status for the Petra3 EMBL Beamlines | 105 |
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| The EMBL-Hamburg currently commissions three new Beamlines at the DESY Synchrotron Petra3. A small angle solution scattering (SAXS) Beamline and two X-ray crystallography (PX) Beamlines. Beamline Control system is TINE. New TINE features for Beamline control have been developed in close collaboration with DESY. The standard TINE tools like the Alarm Handler the Archive Reader and CDI [Common Device Interface] as well as the high level TINE Motor Server are integrated in the EMBL Beamline control architecture. The Beamline control software consists of a layer concept which will be presented. The control electronics are Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) which run the realtime EtherCAT fieldbus protocol. The PLCs perform analog and digital input/output, motor control, signal synchronization and local feedback between devices. The concept will be presented based on the first experience during Beamline commissioning. | ||
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| THCOMA02 | synApps: EPICS-Application Software for Synchrotron Beamlines and Laboratories | 106 |
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| synApps is a collection of EPICS-application software originally intended to support the needs of scientists working at synchrotron-radiation beamlines. The collection contains general purpose software that extends or exploits capabilities of EPICS base, and a large amount of instrument-specific software that applies EPICS to control and provide a user interface for off-the-shelf electronics. This presentation will provide an overview of synApps, describe how synApps is deployed at the Advanced Photon Source, and highlight recent additions to the collection. | ||
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| THCOMA03 | Using ezcaIDL to connect to EPICS Channel Access from SHADOWVUI for Dynamic X-ray Tracing | 109 |
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Using the ezcaIDL library, for IDL*, to provide an interface to EPICS Channel Access through the EZCA library, a simple XOP** extension was written that initializes ezcaIDL and thus allows access to a set of simplified IDL interface commands to connect to Channel Access from within XOP and also from SHADOWVUI. The XOP widget-based driver program is a commonly used front-end interface for computer codes of interest to the synchrotron radiation community. It models x-ray sources and characterizes optics. Extensions, such as SHADOWVUI, are optionally loaded to easily expand its functionality. An essential tool for x-ray optics calculations is the ray-tracing program SHADOW***. A complete Visual User Interface for SHADOW (SHADOWVUI) is an interactive tool for designing an optical system and visualizing results as graphs, histograms. The working scheme is to define the source and the optical elements by entering parameters. The author has taken the usual SHADOWVUI simulation of an x-ray system a step further by using ezcaIDL to interface with the EPICS control system to access the positions of optical components in real life and then run a corresponding simulation based upon these.
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| THCOMA04 | A simple DAQ system based on LabVIEW, php and MySQL | 112 |
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| A tiny and simple DAQ system has been designed and developed for the application to the control system in our institute. This DAQ system is based on on LabView, MySQL and apache, and shows good compatibility with LabVIEW-based system like the control system for the FFAG complex in our institute. The current status for the development, as well as the recent accelerator-related status in our institute, will be introduced. | ||
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