Status of the DELTA Control System

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Status of the DELTA Control System

• Elke Kasel
• June 2003

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Accelerator Complex
Energy 1.5 GeV Circumference 115.2
m Beam Current 150 mA Lifetime 6
h _at_100 mA Insertion Devices 3 Number
of Beamlines 12 (not all equipped) Start of
User-Operation 3/1999
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The Control System

• Version of EPICS Release 3.13.6
• Number of VME-IOCs 25 (most PPC)
• 4 Testbed VME-IOCs
• 2 Beamline VME-IOCs
• 7 Linux-PCs
• 3 Windows PCs
• 1 HP-Workstation
• Number of EPICS records 8490

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Controls Design
Fields of our own work
official EPICS extensions are not used
(currently)
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Beamline Control

• 2 Beamlines in use
• BL5 Undulator (FZ Jülich) Labview on Mac
• BL9 Wiggler (Univ Dortmund) Spectra (from
  Hasylab) on Linux
• 2 Beamlines under construction
• BL11 Undulator (Univ Dortmund) EPICS on Linux
  PC and VME (build by COSYLab)
• BL12 - TGM3 Dipol (Univ Dortmund) EPICS on VME
• 2 Beamlines currently being designed

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Human Resources

• 1 permanent Group-Leader
• 1 permanent Technician (Hardware Installation,
  Network)

• 3 PhD Students

• 3 PhD Students

(two gone and one going to leave at the end of
this year)
(two gone and one going to leave at the end of
this year)
Control GROUP?
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Future Plans

• consolidate status quo (accelerator control)
• integration of beamlines (provide machine
  information via EPICS for beamlines)
• migrate controls of insertion devices to EPICS
• U250-Undulator old DELTA system
• U55-Undulator Labview on Windows
• SAW-Wiggler Labview on Windows

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The End