Author: Suñé, R.
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MOPMU023 The MRF Timing System. The Complete Control Software Integration in Tango. 483
 
  • J. Moldes, D.B. Beltrán, D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, J.J. Jamroz, J. Klora, O. Matilla, R. Suñé
    CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  
  The de­ploy­ment of the Tim­ing sys­tem based on the MRF hard­ware has been a im­por­tant part of the con­trol sys­tem. Hun­dreds of el­e­ments are in­te­grat­ed in the scheme, which pro­vides syn­chro­niza­tion sig­nals and in­ter­locks, trans­mit­ted in the mi­crosec­ond range and dis­tribut­ed all around the in­stal­la­tion. It has in­flu­enced sev­er­al hard­ware choic­es and has been large­ly im­proved to sup­port in­ter­lock events. The op­er­a­tion of the tim­ing sys­tem re­quires a com­plex setup of all el­e­ments. A com­plete so­lu­tion has been de­vel­oped in­clud­ing li­braries and stand alone Graph­i­cal User In­ter­faces. There­fore this set of tools is of a great added value, even in­creased if using Tango, since most high level ap­pli­ca­tions and GUIs are based on Tango Servers. A com­plete soft­ware so­lu­tion for man­ag­ing the events, and in­ter­locks of a large in­stal­la­tion is pre­sent­ed.  
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WEAAUST01 Sardana: The Software for Building SCADAS in Scientific Environments 607
 
  • T.M. Coutinho, G. Cuní, D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, J. Klora, C. Pascual-Izarra, Z. Reszela, R. Suñé
    CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  • A. Homs, E.T. Taurel
    ESRF, Grenoble, France
  
  Sar­dana is a soft­ware for su­per­vi­sion, con­trol and data ac­qui­si­tion in large and small sci­en­tif­ic in­stal­la­tions. It de­liv­ers im­por­tant cost and time re­duc­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with the de­sign, de­vel­op­ment and sup­port of the con­trol and data ac­qui­si­tion sys­tems. It en­hances Tango with the ca­pa­bil­i­ties for build­ing graph­i­cal in­ter­faces with­out writ­ing code, a pow­er­ful python-based macro en­vi­ron­ment for build­ing se­quences and com­plex macros, and a com­pre­hen­sive ac­cess to the hard­ware. It scales well to small lab­o­ra­to­ries as well as to large sci­en­tif­ic in­sti­tu­tions. It has been com­mis­sioned for the con­trol sys­tem of Ac­cel­er­a­tors and Beam­lines at the Alba Syn­chrotron.  
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WEPMS023 ALBA Timing System - A Known Architecture with Fast Interlock System Upgrade 1024
 
  • O. Matilla, D.B. Beltrán, D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, J.J. Jamroz, J. Klora, J. Moldes, R. Suñé
    CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  
  Like most of the newest syn­chrotron fa­cil­i­ties the ALBA Tim­ing Sys­tem works on event based ar­chi­tec­ture. Its main par­tic­u­lar­i­ty is that in­te­grat­ed with the Tim­ing sys­tem a Fast In­ter­lock Sys­tem has been im­ple­ment­ed which al­lows for an au­to­mat­ed and syn­chronous re­ac­tion time from any-to-any point of the ma­chine faster than 5μs. The list of ben­e­fits of com­bin­ing both sys­tems is large: very high flex­i­bil­i­ty, reuse of the tim­ing ac­tu­a­tors, di­rect syn­chronous out­put in dif­fer­ent points of the ma­chine re­act­ing to an in­ter­lock, im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Fast In­ter­lock with very low cost in­crease as the tim­ing optic fiber net­work is reused or the pos­si­bil­i­ty of com­bined di­ag­nos­tic tools im­ple­men­ta­tion for trig­gers and in­ter­locks. To en­hance this last point a glob­al times­tamp of 8ns ac­cu­ra­cy that could be used both for trig­gers and in­ter­locks has been im­ple­ment­ed. The sys­tem has been de­signed, in­stalled and ex­ten­sive­ly used dur­ing the Stor­age Ring com­mis­sion­ing with very good re­sults.  
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