Author: Dolton, W.
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MOPMU013 Phase II and III The Next Generation of CLS Beamline Control and Data Acquisition Systems 454
 
  • E. D. Matias, D. Beauregard, R. Berg, G. Black, M.J. Boots, W. Dolton, D. Hunter, R. Igarashi, D. Liu, D.G. Maxwell, C.D. Miller, T. Wilson, G. Wright
    CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
 
  The Canadian Light Source is nearing the completion of its suite of phase II Beamlines and in detailed design of its Phase III Beamlines. The paper presents an overview of the overall approach adopted by CLS in the development of beamline control and data acquisition systems. Building on the experience of our first phase of beamlines the CLS has continued to make extensive use of EPICS with EDM and QT based user interfaces. Increasing interpretive languages such as Python are finding a place in the beamline control systems. Web based environment such as ScienceStudio have also found a prominent place in the control system architecture as we move to tighter integration between data acquisition, visualization and data analysis.