1 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Overview architecture of SOLEIL technical solutions for Beam Lines Control « A control system is a sea of network objects, every part of the control system should be a network object whether it is a low-level, high- level or application oriented frameworks »

2 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Plan  Introduction  Devices Hardware Equipment and sub-system devices Process and Calculation devices  High level applications Tango generic tools GlobalScreen Salsa Passerelle  Status of the control of a beamline: SAMBA

3 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Software Architecture Supervision Applications Archiving Applications Process Driving Applications

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5 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Hardware devices and  The electronics group has standardized many hardware systems for Machine and BeamLines with commercial solutions: Vacuum control done via PLC and Profibus -> Siemens Motor Control -> Galil All cPCI acquisition boards :  Digital I/O boards -> ADLink  Counting boards -> National Instruments  Analog I/O boards -> ADLink  Video acquisition -> National Instruments … and  So all the « generic » devices developed for these systems are used on Machine and BeamLines : Vacuum: VacuumValve, Thermocouples, IonPump … Motor: ControlBox, GalilAxis, GalilSlit… CPCI acquisition board: ImgGrabber, SingleShotDIO, EventCounting… …  For non standardized systems such as detectors: Specific devices were developed.

6 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Equipment and sub system devices  For beamline systems such as : Mirrors Monochromators Diffractometers  Some libraries were developed based on a long term specification work done with beamline scientists : MonochromatorLib HKL lib…  The devices are then developed on top of these libraries: If possible a generic device is developed: (GenericBender, DiffractometerEulerian4C, …) If not possible: a device per beamline (MonochromatorDiffabs, MonochromatorSamba, …)  These libraries allow: Reduced the device development cycle (One week per Monochromator) Standardized optics devices control software interface

7 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Process And Calculation devices  As for other devices, we tried to standardize: ScanServer DataFitter TangoParser Java Generic Devices (statecomposers, attributelistewriters,..) BeamImgAnalyzer Archiving devices DataRecorder: data storage in Nexus Format (see next presentation of S.Poirier) …

8 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 High Level Applications

9 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Generic Tango Applications  Intensively used for tests and commisionning by beamline teams: Jive ATKPanel Astor ATKTuning ATKTrend DeviceTree

10 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Supervision: GlobalScreen  As for the Machine, we provide the GlobalScreen IDE which allows non software developers to realize their own Supervision Applications: A work group in Experiment Division has defined « graphical views » for common equipments:  Front End  Mirror, Monochromator, … Each beamline has developed its own application using these elementary components.

11 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Process Driving: Salsa  Salsa is the application on top of the Scan Server device to realize: TimeScan 1D Scan 2D Scan  Deployed and will be used on all Beamlines  Used also on the Machine

12 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 PASSERELLE allow to graphically design sequences by drag and drop and execute them Process Driving: Passerelle  PASSERELLE is provided by a company called ISENCIA That realized process driving for industrial companies.  PASSERELLE is based on an environment for scientific modelisation and simulation: PTOLEMY (developed by the Berkeley University)

13 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Principle  We connect « boxes » and « wires »: The « boxes » are called ACTORS, they execute an action. The « wires » are called MESSAGES, they transfer data.  The graphic language for editing sequences provided all functionnalities to build complex logics: Loops Comparison Error management Parameterization  Every actor is configurable with parameters.  Our team is developing actors that control Tango devices.

14 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Passerelle users’ environments: IDE  IDE: development, configuration, execution, debugging:

15 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Passerelle users’ environments: Generic HMI  Graphical panel on top of any Passerelle sequence.  Possibility for users to customize the configuration panel : Selection of the visible parameters. Parameters’ labels. Panels organization.  Allow to launch it, and visualize User logs

16 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Passerelle users’ environments: Specific HMI  Principle: Some beamlines were not happy with the generic HMI  For complex sequences the parameterization with the generic HMI is too complicated. Allow end users to do acquisition on the beamline without any knowledge about Tango or Passerelle  These GUI appear to be « the beamline acquisition application » But it is only possible for fixed range of sequences:  Because sequences modification may imply the evolution of the configuration interface.  For the moment, these Specific HMI are developed by us (Java): But our aim is to provide « something » that could be developed/customized by beamline teams (as for GlobalScreen)

17 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Passerelle users’ environments: Specific HMI  At the moment, 4 Specific HMI have been developed:

18 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Passerelle users’ environments: Bossa Nova, a prototype  An application that allows to create « a batch » of many passerelle sequences: A table where the user gives the list of sequences to execute The Passerelle Generic HMI to edit the parameters of each sequence of the table

19 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 SAMBA Presentation of the control of a Beamline: SAMBA

20 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Optical Hutch Main equipment Ctrl Installed Generic devices Specific device Library used Absorber I/O boards :ASL Primary Slit Mirror 1 (TPP+Bender)Mirror + Generic Bender Beam Imager 1VSL + ISL Monochomator 1 (DCM)Monochromator Mono 2 (Quick EXAFS: 2008) Monochromator Beam Imager 2VSL + ISL Secondary Slit Mirror 2 (TPP+Bender)Mirror + Generic Bender Beam Imager 3VSL + ISL Shutter (+ support)

21 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Experimental Hutch 1: EXAFS Main equipment Ctrl Installed Generic devices Specific device Library used Exafs Slit support Exafs table Ionisation Chamber I0 (Alim Iseg) + Femto + counters Counting board library Ionisation Chamber I1 (Alim Iseg) + Femto + counters Counting board library Ionisation Chamber I2 (Alim Iseg) + Femto + counters Counting board library Sample support table Cryostat, fluo detectorCounting board library Combined Experiment: RAMAN, UV-Visible, DSC Shutter

22 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Experimental Hutch 2: SURFAS Main equipment Ctrl Installed Generic devices Specific device Library used Surfas Slit support SurfAs table Event countingCounting board library

23 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Samba: High level application progress  Tango Generic Tools: used intensively by beamline team  GlobalScreen: used intensively by beamline team. BeamLine is currently developing a new version.  Salsa: Beginning to use it (tomorrow with Hercules students).  Passerelle: A specific HMI is installed and is in test by us.  DataStorage system: installed and ready to be used.  SnapShot system: installed and ready to be used.

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28 20th March 2007 – Tango Meeting – G.Abeillé ICALEPS 2005 Conclusion  A big effort has been made by both the electronics and computing teams to standardize as much as possible: We spend many time in specifications meetings with our client before starting coding something.  We have adopt the iterative cycle for development of user tools: We now provide versions devices/applications in cycle of 1-3 weeks so that client can test it and precise its specifications.  There is still many work to do for us: Quality, e.g.:  many documentation still to been done  It is not clear what version of devices are deployed. Integration: we provide many graphical tools the users see as small bricks. At the end, it should be integrated in one/few applications.  Because everything is done in Java, there are no technical difficulties to do it.  The problem is that the clients do not have a clear vision of how they want to have !!

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