Author: Molon, F.
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WEPKS011 Use of ITER CODAC Core System in SPIDER Ion Source 801
 
  • C. Taliercio, A. Barbalace, M. Breda, R. Capobianco, A. Luchetta, G. Manduchi, F. Molon, M. Moressa, P. Simionato
    Consorzio RFX, Associazione Euratom-ENEA sulla Fusione, Padova, Italy
  
  In Febru­ary 2011 ITER re­leased a new ver­sion (v2) of the CODAC Core Sys­tem. In ad­di­tion to the se­lect­ed EPICS core, the new pack­age in­cludes also sev­er­al tools from Con­trol Sys­tem Stu­dio [1]. These tools are all in­te­grat­ed in Eclipse and offer an in­te­grat­ed en­vi­ron­ment for de­vel­op­ment and op­er­a­tion. The SPI­DER Ion Source ex­per­i­ment is the first ex­per­i­ment planned in the ITER Neu­tral Beam Test Fa­cil­i­ty under con­struc­tion at Con­sorzio RFX, Pado­va, Italy. As the final prod­uct of the Test Fa­cil­i­ty is the ITER Neu­tral Beam In­jec­tor, we de­cid­ed to ad­here since the be­gin­ning to the ITER CODAC guide­lines. There­fore the EPICS sys­tem pro­vid­ed in the CODAC Core Sys­tem will be used in SPI­DER for plant con­trol and su­per­vi­sion and, to some ex­tent, for data ac­qui­si­tion. In this paper we re­port our ex­pe­ri­ence in the usage of CODAC Core Sys­tem v2 in the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the con­trol sys­tem of SPI­DER and, in par­tic­u­lar, we an­a­lyze the ben­e­fits and draw­backs of the Self De­scrip­tion Data (SDD) tools which, based on a XML de­scrip­tion of the sig­nals in­volved in the sys­tem, pro­vide the au­to­mat­ic gen­er­a­tion of the con­fig­u­ra­tion files for the EPICS tools and PLC data ex­change.
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