Title :
Smart Rack Monitor for the linac control system
Author :
Shtirbu, S. ; Goodwin, R.W. ; McCrory, E.S. ; Shea, M.F.
Author_Institution :
Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA
Abstract :
The Smart Rack Monitor (SRM) is a low-cost, one-board, data acquisition module for the upgraded linac control system at Fermilab. The SRM is based on the Motorola MC68332 microcontroller in the Business Card Computer (BCC) configuration. It is connected to the linac local control station (to be referred to as local station) by an Arcnet LAN, and can be located close to the controlled hardware. Each local station is connected to several SRMs. The SRM has 64 A-D channels, sixteen D-A channels, and eight bytes of digital I/O on the mother board. Software Components Group´s pSOS is the SRM´s kernel. The SRM´s software is cross-developed on VAX/VMS in C. The SRM does not have an attached console and is fully controlled by the local station.<>
Keywords :
computerised control; control systems; linear accelerators; physics computing; A-D channels; Arcnet LAN; Business Card Computer; C; D-A channels; Fermilab; Motorola MC68332 microcontroller; Smart Rack Monitor; VAX/VMS; controlled hardware; data acquisition module; digital I/O; mother board; pSOS; upgraded linac control system; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Data acquisition; Hardware; Kernel; Linear particle accelerator; Local area networks; Microcontrollers; Reluctance motors; Voice mail;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0135-8
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1991.164677
