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TY - CONF AU - Donadio, M.P. AU - Piton, J.R. AU - de Almeida, H.D. ED - Corvetti, Lou ED - Riches, Kathleen ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Quick Experiment Automation Made Possible Using FPGA in LNLS J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2015, Melbourne, Australia, 17-23 October 2015 C1 - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 15 LA - english AB - Beamlines in LNLS are being modernized to use the synchrotron light as efficiently as possible. As the photon flux increases, experiment speed constraints become more visible to the user. Experiment control has been done by ordinary computers, under a conventional operating system, running high-level software written in most common programming languages. This architecture presents some time issues as computer is subject to interruptions from input devices like mouse, keyboard or network. The programs quickly became the bottleneck of the experiment. To improve experiment control and automation speed, we transferred software algorithms to a FPGA device. FPGAs are semiconductor devices based around a matrix of logic blocks reconfigurable by software. The results of using a NI Compact RIO device with FPGA programmed through LabVIEW for adopting this technology and future improvements are briefly shown in this paper. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 229 EP - 232 KW - FPGA KW - software KW - experiment KW - Linux KW - EPICS DA - 2015/12 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-148-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-MOPGF057 UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/mopgf057.pdf ER -