An FPGA-Based Quench Detection and Protection System for Superconducting Accelerator Magnets

Author

Carcagno, R.H. ; Feher, S. ; Lamm, M. ; Makulski, A. ; Nehring, R. ; Orris, D.F. ; Pischalnikov, Y. ; Tartaglia, M.

Author_Institution

FNAL, Batavia, IL 60510, U.S.A., ruben@fnal.gov

fYear

2005

fDate

16-20 May 2005

Firstpage

3502

Lastpage

3504

Abstract

A new quench detection and protection system for superconducting accelerator magnets was developed for the Fermilab’s Magnet Test Facility (MTF). This system is based on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) module, and it is made of mostly commercially available, integrated hardware and software components. It provides all the functions of our existing VME-based quench detection and protection system, but in addition the new system is easily scalable to protect multiple magnets powered independently and provides a more powerful user interface and analysis tools. The new system has been used successfully for testing LHC Interaction Region Quadrupoles correctors and High Field Magnet HFDM04. In this paper we describe the system and present results.

Keywords

Accelerator magnets; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Independent component analysis; Magnetic analysis; Power system protection; Superconducting magnets; System testing; Test facilities; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8859-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2005.1591519

Filename

1591519