The Duke storage ring control system

Author

Wu, Y. ; Burnham, B. ; Litvinenko, V.N.

Author_Institution

FEL Lab., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

1-5 May 1995

Firstpage

2214

Abstract

The Duke storage ring is a dedicated facility for the UV-VUV FEL operation. The low level computer control system for the Duke storage ring is developed using EPICS. The control hardware employs several different architectures including CAMAC, GPIB, Allen Bradley, and VME. The high level control is implemented in Tcl-Tk scripts running on SPARCstations. Tcl-Tk provides the global control capabilities such as the energy ramping, the orbit compensation, and the tune and chromaticity control. The Duke storage ring control system was tested and operational for storage ring commissioning in Nov. 1994. During commissioning, additional control tools were developed to facilitate the operation

Keywords

CAMAC; accelerator control systems; computerised control; electron accelerators; physics computing; storage rings; Allen Bradley; CAMAC; Duke storage ring control system; EPICS; GPIB; SPARCstations; Tcl-Tk scripts; UV-VUV FEL operation; VME; chromaticity control; control hardware; energy ramping; global control capabilities; high level control; low level computer control system; orbit compensation; storage ring commissioning; tune; CAMAC; Computer architecture; Control systems; Hardware; Laboratories; Level control; Local area networks; Notice of Violation; Storage rings; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.505502

Filename

505502