Author: Rijllart, A.
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WEPHA026 Integrating COTS Equipment in the CERN Accelerator Domain 1136
 
  • O.Ø. Andreassen, C. Charrondière, K. Develle, A. Rijllart, R.E. Rossel, J. Steen, J. Tagg, T. Zilliox
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Successful integration of industrial equipment in the CERN accelerator complex relies mainly on 3 key components. The first part is the Controls Middleware (CMW). That provides a common communication infrastructure for the accelerator controls at CERN. The second part is timing. To orchestrate and align electronic and electrical equipment across the 27 km Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at sub nanosecond precision, an elaborate timing scheme is needed. Every component has to be configured and aligned within milliseconds and then trigger in perfect harmony with each other. The third and last bit is configuration management. The COTS devices have to be kept up to date, remotely managed and compatible with each other at all times. This is done through a combination of networked Pre eXecution Environments (PXE) mounting network accessible storage on the front ends, where operating systems and packages can be maintained across systems. In this article we demonstrate how COTS based National Instruments PXI and cRIO systems can be integrated in the CERN accelerator domain for measurement and monitoring systems.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA026  
About • paper received ※ 27 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 19 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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WEPHA129 Synchronizing LabVIEW Development and Deployment Environment 1394
 
  • O.Ø. Andreassen, C. Charrondière, M.K. Miskowiec, H. Reymond, A. Rijllart
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  LabVIEW with its graphical approach is suited for engineers used to design and implement systems based on schematics and designs. Being a graphical language, it can be challenging to keep track of drivers, runtime engines, deployments and configurations since most of the tools on the market aimed towards this are implemented for textual languages. Configuration management is possible in the development environment via version control systems such as perforce, however at CERN and in the open source software development community in general, the tendency is moving towards Git. In this paper we demonstrate how the combination of automated builds, packaging, versioning and consistent deployment can further ease and speed up development, while ensure robustness and coherency across systems. We also show how an in-house built tool called "RADE Installer" synchronizes both development environments and drivers across workstations, empowering graphical development at CERN, by merging the open source toolchains with the workflow of LabVIEW. RADE installer represents definitively a solution for LabVIEW to keep track of drivers, runtime engines, deployments and configurations.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA129  
About • paper received ※ 27 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 09 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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