ICALEPCS1991 - List of Authors (Deloose, I.)

Paper	Title	Page
S04SRS02	A PC Based Control System for the CERN ISOLDE Separators	162
	R. Billinge, A. Bret, I. Deloose, A. Pace, G. Shering CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	The control system of the two isotope separators of CERN, named ISOLDE, is being completely redesigned with the goal of having a flexible, high performance and inexpensive system. A new architecture that makes heavy use of the commercial software and hardware available for the huge Personal Computer (PC) market is being implemented on the 1700 geographically distributed control channels of the separators. 8 MS-DOS™ i386-based PCs with about 80 acquisition/control boards are used to access the equipments while 3 other PCs running Microsoft Windows™ and Microsoft Excel™ are used as consoles, the whole through a Novell™ Local Area Network with a PC Disk Server used as a database. This paper describes the interesting solutions found and discusses the reduced programming workload and costs that are expected to build the system before the start of the separators in March 1992.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S04SRS02
About •	Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992
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S13MMI03	The Replacement of Touch-Terminal Consoles of the CERN Antiproton Accumulator Complex (AAC) by Office PCs As Well as X-Windows Based Workstations	456
	V. Chohan, I. Deloose, G. Shering CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	With aging hardware and expensive maintenance and replacement possibilities, it was decided to upgrade the CERN Antiproton Accumulator Complex (AAC) touch terminal consoles with modern hardware. With significant amount of operational application software developed with touch terminals over 10 years, the philosophy adopted was to attempt a total emulation of these console functions of touch actions, graphics display as well as simple keyboard terminal entry onto the front-end computer controlling the AAC. The PC based emulation by mouse and multiple windows under MS-DOS and later, under the Windows 3 environment was realized relatively quickly; the next stage was therefore to do the same on the Unix platform using software based on X-Windows. The communications channel was established using the TCP/IP socket library. This paper reviews this work up to the operational implementation for routine control room usage for both these solutions.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S13MMI03
About •	Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992
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S18BPA02	Frequency Domain Analyses of Schottky Signals Using a VME Based Data Server and a Workstation Client	579
	A. Chapman-Hatchett, V. Chohan, I. Deloose, F. Pedersen CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Schottky signals are extensively used for observation, setting-up and operation of CERN’s Antiproton rings, namely the AC, the AA and LEAR. Measurement of these signals is, at present, carried out by a series of commercial instruments. These instruments have to be individually controlled and read by each application program. The operational use of the system is limited by the capabilities of the individual instruments. The first objective for the new system was to provide, as far as possible, a true "server". The "client" application program simply requests the data it requires. It is then supplied with measured and processed data. This provides the operator with a fast response by having ready processed data always available. Our second goal was to make the system operationally simple, with multiple windows and presentation on a single screen. This paper discusses some aspects of this implementation and applications for the antiproton production, collection, and storage rings.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S18BPA02
About •	Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992
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A PC Based Control System for the CERN ISOLDE Separators

162

R. Billinge, A. Bret, I. Deloose, A. Pace, G. Shering
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

The control system of the two isotope separators of CERN, named ISOLDE, is being completely redesigned with the goal of having a flexible, high performance and inexpensive system. A new architecture that makes heavy use of the commercial software and hardware available for the huge Personal Computer (PC) market is being implemented on the 1700 geographically distributed control channels of the separators. 8 MS-DOS™ i386-based PCs with about 80 acquisition/control boards are used to access the equipments while 3 other PCs running Microsoft Windows™ and Microsoft Excel™ are used as consoles, the whole through a Novell™ Local Area Network with a PC Disk Server used as a database. This paper describes the interesting solutions found and discusses the reduced programming workload and costs that are expected to build the system before the start of the separators in March 1992.

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S13MMI03

The Replacement of Touch-Terminal Consoles of the CERN Antiproton Accumulator Complex (AAC) by Office PCs As Well as X-Windows Based Workstations

456

V. Chohan, I. Deloose, G. Shering
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

With aging hardware and expensive maintenance and replacement possibilities, it was decided to upgrade the CERN Antiproton Accumulator Complex (AAC) touch terminal consoles with modern hardware. With significant amount of operational application software developed with touch terminals over 10 years, the philosophy adopted was to attempt a total emulation of these console functions of touch actions, graphics display as well as simple keyboard terminal entry onto the front-end computer controlling the AAC. The PC based emulation by mouse and multiple windows under MS-DOS and later, under the Windows 3 environment was realized relatively quickly; the next stage was therefore to do the same on the Unix platform using software based on X-Windows. The communications channel was established using the TCP/IP socket library. This paper reviews this work up to the operational implementation for routine control room usage for both these solutions.

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Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992

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S18BPA02

Frequency Domain Analyses of Schottky Signals Using a VME Based Data Server and a Workstation Client

579

A. Chapman-Hatchett, V. Chohan, I. Deloose, F. Pedersen
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Schottky signals are extensively used for observation, setting-up and operation of CERN’s Antiproton rings, namely the AC, the AA and LEAR. Measurement of these signals is, at present, carried out by a series of commercial instruments. These instruments have to be individually controlled and read by each application program. The operational use of the system is limited by the capabilities of the individual instruments. The first objective for the new system was to provide, as far as possible, a true "server". The "client" application program simply requests the data it requires. It is then supplied with measured and processed data. This provides the operator with a fast response by having ready processed data always available. Our second goal was to make the system operationally simple, with multiple windows and presentation on a single screen. This paper discusses some aspects of this implementation and applications for the antiproton production, collection, and storage rings.

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Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992

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