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Design and implementation of an instrumentation & control system for cathodes and radio-frequency interactions in extremes (CARIE) project

WEPC57
22 May 2024, 16:00
2h
Country (MCC Exhibit Hall A)

Country

MCC Exhibit Hall A

Poster Presentation MC2.T02 Electron Sources Wednesday Poster Session

Speaker

Heath Watkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

The Accelerator Operations and Technology division at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is working on designing and implementing an Instrumentation and Controls System (ICS) for the Cathodes and Radio-frequency Interactions in Extremes (CARIE) project. The system will utilize open-source Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) developed for scientific facilities for control, monitoring, and data acquisition. The hardware form factors will include National Instrument’s (NI) cRIO automation controller for industrial-like slow inputs/outputs and NI’s PXIe for high-speed data acquisition for diagnostic signals featuring masked and event-based time window capture. In this paper, we will discuss the reasons that led to the design, the hardware and software design specifics, the challenges that we faced during implementation, including the EPICS device support for NI PXIe, as well as the advantages and drawbacks of our system given the experimental nature of the CARIE project.

Funding Agency

U.S. Department of Energy through the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by Triad National Security, LLC. LA-UR-23-33888

Region represented North America
Paper preparation format Word

Primary authors

Deepak Rai (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Tyagi Ramakrishnan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Walter Barkley (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Brian Haynes (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Evgenya Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Muhammed Zuboraj (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Torben Grumstrup (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Jonathan Quemuel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Heath Watkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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