Adding PCs to SLC control system

Author

Lahey, T. ; Levitt, S. ; MacKenzie, R. ; Spencer, N. ; Underwood, K.

Author_Institution

Linear Accel. Center, Stanford Univ., CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

1969

Abstract

The SLAC Controls Department has interfaced IBM-Compatible PCs to the SLC Control System, for use by the Final Focus Test Beam (FFTB) experimenters, who are building new accelerator equipment and developing and testing it at their home institutions. They will bring the equipment to SLAC and integrate it into the control system using a new software package. The machine physicists and operators will use the existing SLC control system applications and database device types to control and monitor the equipment. The PCs support a limited control enviroment: they run DOS and exchange messages with the existing control system via TCP/IP over ethernet, using the new SLC Area Message Service. This mechanism will also allow SLC to implement other commercial device controllers that can communicate over ethernet and run the same software interface code

Keywords

computerised control; electron accelerators; electronic messaging; linear accelerators; local area networks; microcomputer applications; physical instrumentation control; physics computing; protocols; Final Focus Test Beam; IBM-Compatible PCs; SLC Area Message Service; SLC control system; SLC control system applications; TCP/IP; commercial device controllers; database device types; ethernet; limited control enviroment; Application software; Condition monitoring; Control systems; Databases; Ethernet networks; Life estimation; Particle beams; Personal communication networks; Software packages; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.309194

Filename

309194