Author: Minolli, S.M.
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TUAPL05 PandABox: A Multipurpose Platform for Multi-technique Scanning and Feedback Applications 143
 
  • S. Zhang, Y.-M. Abiven, J. Bisou, F. Langlois, G. Renaud, F. Ta, G. Thibaux
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • M.G. Abbott, T.M. Cobb, C.J. Turner, I.S. Uzun
    DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  • S.M. Minolli
    NEXEYA Systems, La Couronne, France
  
  PandABox is a development project resulting from a collaboration between Synchrotron SOLEIL and Diamond Light Source started in October 2015. The initial objective driving the project was to provide multi-channel encoder processing for synchronizing data acquisitions with motion systems in experimental continuous scans. The resulting system is a multi-purpose platform well adapted for multi-technique scanning and feedback applications. This flexible and modular platform embeds an industrial electronics board with a powerful Xilinx Zynq 7030 SoC (Avnet PicoZed), FMC slot, SFP module, TTL and LDVS I/Os and removable encoder peripheral modules. In the same manner, the firmware and software framework has been developed in a modular way to be easily configurable and adaptable. The whole system is open and extensible from the hardware level up to integration with control systems like TANGO or EPICS. This paper details the hardware capabilities, platform performance, framework adaptability, and the project status at both sites.
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THPHA158 First Step to Manage Migration to Siemens S7-15XX PLCs using TANGO Framework 1776
 
  • P. Rommeluère, Y.-M. Abiven, A. Buteau, P. Monteiro
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • P. Betinelli-Deck
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • S.M. Minolli
    NEXEYA Systems, La Couronne, France
  
  Over the past years, SOLEIL* uses SIEMENS PLCs** as a standard for signal monitoring and security. SOLEIL is today thinking about a major upgrade of the facilities, and has to adapt its organization to face efficient operation and R&D. In this context, automation experts are now merged in a single group. In a middle term, migration from the existing 3XX series PLCs to the new 15XX series will be necessary. As the new 15XX series PLCs do not support Fetch/Write protocol anymore, a first step is the upgrade of TANGO*** PLCServer. This software device ensures data exchange with supervisory applications using TANGO infrastructure. It opens multiple TCP/IP connections to the PLC hardware, manages asynchronous communication to read/write PLC Datablocks and acts as a server for other clients. The upgrade of PLCServer is based on Snap7**** open source Ethernet communication suite for interfacing with Siemens PLCs using the S7 native protocol. This paper details the evolutions, performances and limitations of this new version of the PLCServer.
*French synchrotron light facility
**Programmable Logic Controller
***Toolkit for distributed control systems, supervisory and data acquisition (www.tango-controls.org)
****snap7.sourceforge.net
 		 
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