Conveners
Session 6
- Thomas Holzapfel (Industry Partner)
The Injection Kicker system at the Spallation Neutron Source is responsible for minimizing the average beam current and space charge. This is accomplished through configurable waveforms that are stored and sent to the Injection Kicker Magnet Power Supplies at 60Hz by the control system. These waveforms then must be verified at the beam repetition rate by a monitoring system that is connected...
Various Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) are developed based on the MicroTCA.4 technology. The standard always requires basic functionality including: Module Management and Rear-Transition Module Controllers, fabric interface, power supply, clock and synchronization. The module usually provides some programable resources that can be used by the final application.
A second version of...
DESY has developed a MicroTCA.4-based multi-axis motion controller: DAMC-MOTCTRL. This board is a contribution to the ecosystem since it enables controlling motion in big experiments from within the MicroTCA crate. It is designed to move up to 48 stepper motors per card in parallel - which means each card replaces up to 6 VME cards. One major benefit is the possibility to aggregate multiple...
In order to simplify the software architecture that has been developed for the Sirius Beam Position Monitors (BPM) and Fast Orbit Feedback (FOFB) systems, currently running on MicroTCA crates with FPGA devices communicating over PCIe, a new library and accompanying EPICS IOC have been developed. The hardware interaction is done entirely in userspace by means of the Linux sysfs filesystem;...
