Author: Goodwin, R.W.
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S08NC01 ARCNET as a Field Bus in the Fermilab Linac Control System 291
 
  • M.F. Shea, R.W. Goodwin, M.J. Kucera, S. Shtirbu
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-76CHO3000
Data acquisition hardware in accelerator control systems is connected by a field bus to networked computers that supply data to consoles. Industry attempts to standardize on a low level field bus have not succeeded in providing a single well­ supported bus. This paper describes a data acquisition chassis that connects to VMEbus computers using ARCNET, a full featured token-passing local area network, as the field bus. The performance of this technique as implemented in the control system for the Fermilab Linac is given.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S08NC01  
About • Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992  
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