Speaker
Martin Killenberg
(DESY)
Description
In the past year, the ControlSystemAdapter and the ApplicationCore libraries of ChimeraTK have done the step from proof of concept implementations to Tools which are ready for productive use. They provide a framework for writing a control application which publishes process variables to a control system without being dependent on a particular middleware. A full LLRF controller server for a System based on MicroTCA.4 hardware has been developed at DESY using ApplicationCore and DOOCS, and has successfully been integrated at the ELBE accelerator at HZDR using OPC UA, without changing a single line of code. Only the configuration for the system integration had to be adapted.
Together with the DeviceAccess library, which comes with ready-to-use PCI-Express drivers, ChimeraTK is geared towards the implementation of control applications in MicroTCA.4. However, living completely in the user space of a CPU and having a flexible hardware abstraction layer, ChimeraTK is not limited to MicroTCA and a powerful, easy to use library for control software which has to be integrated into multiple control system environments.
Primary authors
Martin Hierholzer
(DESY)
Martin Killenberg
(DESY)
