ICEPAP Software Status

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ICEPAP Software Status

• Presented by Manuel Perez
• Member of BLISS group

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ICEPAPs are coming on beamlines
soon
The phone extension 27-49 will be
disabled
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ICEPAPs on beamlines

• Seen as a device connected to the beamline
  network
• The device connected is called MASTER
• Each MASTER can control until 128 DRIVERs
• Each DRIVER can control a motor and its encoder
• Several MASTERs can be connected on the same
  beamline
• The communication is done through sockets
• No Device Server but the MASTER supports
  multi-clients
• Currently there are several tools to access a
  MASTER

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ICEPAPs on beamlines
IP assign
SPEC
Configurator
Updater
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IP Assign tool

• Automatically detect ICEPAP MASTERs on the
  network
• Configure IP/hostname/mask etc

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SPEC control

• Done with macro motors (an ICEPAP axis is usable
  like any other motor for scans, etc)
• Each DRIVER needs several parameters (30)
• Currently set of parameters defined by motor type
  given in the config file (generic parameter)
• The MASTER supports multi-client (can be used by
  several SPEC sessions in parallel)

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SPEC control
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Configuration tool

• Graphical interface (Python/Qt) designed at ALBA
• Each DRIVER needs several parameters (30)
• Talk directly to an ICEPAP MASTER
• Set / Upload / Save / History parameters for each
  DRIVER
• Allows to move a motor (for test purpose)

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Firmware Updater
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ICEPAP MASTER
Linux
Ethernet
Comm
FPGA
DSP
IP Assign
CAN bus
ICEPAP DRIVER
ICEPAP DRIVER
ICEPAP DRIVER
FPGA
DSP
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Firmware Updater
S

• Done with SPEC macros reading from a single meta
  file
• Meta file generated with a tool collecting
  individual firmwares and handling versioning /
  history

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Future

• Graphical interface for the Firmware Packager
• Graphical interface for the Firmware Updater (or
  IP Assign)
• Web interface to MASTERs (get axis status, move,
  etc)
• USB interface (wireless access to ICEPAP, test
  onsite,etc)

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A Demonstration Presentation Version 0.1
(19/08/03) Group Demo Group