Title :
Real Time Control of the SSC String Magnets
Author :
Calvo, O. ; Flora, R. ; MacPherson, M.
Author_Institution :
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory P.O. Box 500 MS 308 Batavia, IL 60510
Abstract :
The system described in this paper, called SECAR, was designed to control the excitation of a test string of magnets for the proposed Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) and will be used to upgrade the present Tevatron Excitation, Control and Regulation (TECAR) hardware and software . It resides in a VME crate and is controlled by a 68020/68881 based CPU running the application software under a real time operating system named VRTX.
Keywords :
Centralized control; Clocks; Communication system control; Control systems; Decoding; Embedded software; Hardware; Magnets; Microprocessors; Operating systems;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1987.4334731