PCaPAC2012 - List of Authors (Sahoo, S.)

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Modular Beam Diagnostics Instrument Design for Cyclotrons

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N. Chaddha, R.B. Bhole, P.P. Nandy, S. Pal, S. Sahoo
VECC, Kolkata, India

The Cyclotrons at VECC, Kolkata i.e. Room Temperature Cyclotron (RTC) and Superconducting Cyclotron (SCC) comprise of internal and external beam diagnostic systems. These systems provide the beam developer with position, intensity, beam profile, a visual impression of the size & shape of ion beam, and operational control over diagnostic components like 3-finger probe, Beam Viewer probe, Deflector probe, Faraday cup, X-Y slit, Beam viewer etc. Automation of these components was initially done using customized modules for individual sub-system. An expansion of this facility and various levels of complexity demand modular design to cater easy modification and upgradation. The overall requirements are analysed and modular cards are developed based on basic functionalities like valve operation, probe/ slit/ viewer control, position read-out, interlock, aperture control of beam line and communication. A 32-bit Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) based card with embedded EPICS is chosen as the master controller and FPGA/ microcontroller is used for functional modules. The paper gives a comprehensive description of all modules and their integration with the control system.

Poster THPD10 [0.522 MB]

FRCC03

Development and Performance Analysis of EPICS Channel Access Server on FPGA based Soft-core Processor

274

S. Sahoo, T. Bhattacharjee, S. Pal
VECC, Kolkata, India

A soft core processor is a flexible hardware description language (HDL) model of a specific processor (CPU) that can be customized for a given application and synthesized for an FPGA as opposed to a hard core processor which is fixed in silicon. Combined with an on-board ethernet port, the technology incorporates integrating the IOC and digital control hardware within a single FPGA thus reducing the overall hardware complexities of field devices. In this paper, the technical details of porting EPICS Channel Access Server on MicroBlaze soft-core processor are explained. The EPICS performance on the Microblaze processor is analyzed. For this, the CPU load and server processing time for different numbers of Process Variables (PVs) have been studied for this platform. On the basis of the analysis, critical parameters of EPICS on this embedded platform have been derived and a few modifications in the channel access protocol are proposed for MicroBlaze soft-core processor.

Slides FRCC03 [2.238 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
THPD10	Modular Beam Diagnostics Instrument Design for Cyclotrons	154
	N. Chaddha, R.B. Bhole, P.P. Nandy, S. Pal, S. Sahoo VECC, Kolkata, India
	The Cyclotrons at VECC, Kolkata i.e. Room Temperature Cyclotron (RTC) and Superconducting Cyclotron (SCC) comprise of internal and external beam diagnostic systems. These systems provide the beam developer with position, intensity, beam profile, a visual impression of the size & shape of ion beam, and operational control over diagnostic components like 3-finger probe, Beam Viewer probe, Deflector probe, Faraday cup, X-Y slit, Beam viewer etc. Automation of these components was initially done using customized modules for individual sub-system. An expansion of this facility and various levels of complexity demand modular design to cater easy modification and upgradation. The overall requirements are analysed and modular cards are developed based on basic functionalities like valve operation, probe/ slit/ viewer control, position read-out, interlock, aperture control of beam line and communication. A 32-bit Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) based card with embedded EPICS is chosen as the master controller and FPGA/ microcontroller is used for functional modules. The paper gives a comprehensive description of all modules and their integration with the control system.
	Poster THPD10 [0.522 MB]

FRCC03	Development and Performance Analysis of EPICS Channel Access Server on FPGA based Soft-core Processor	274
	S. Sahoo, T. Bhattacharjee, S. Pal VECC, Kolkata, India
	A soft core processor is a flexible hardware description language (HDL) model of a specific processor (CPU) that can be customized for a given application and synthesized for an FPGA as opposed to a hard core processor which is fixed in silicon. Combined with an on-board ethernet port, the technology incorporates integrating the IOC and digital control hardware within a single FPGA thus reducing the overall hardware complexities of field devices. In this paper, the technical details of porting EPICS Channel Access Server on MicroBlaze soft-core processor are explained. The EPICS performance on the Microblaze processor is analyzed. For this, the CPU load and server processing time for different numbers of Process Variables (PVs) have been studied for this platform. On the basis of the analysis, critical parameters of EPICS on this embedded platform have been derived and a few modifications in the channel access protocol are proposed for MicroBlaze soft-core processor.
	Slides FRCC03 [2.238 MB]