Industrial Controls Engineering Department Proposals for an Improved CERN PXI Support First CERN PXI Users Group meeting - 19 th October H. Reymond - EN/ICE

Industrial Controls Engineering Department Why to Establish the CERN PXI Users Group ? 2  To allow knowledge sharing about PXI  Experience about HW / SW  Known issues on drivers, cards, LV-RT, …  To promote the use of PXI at CERN by helping new users  Selecting the best PXI solution that fits their needs  Best programming practices (i.e. RT, fast triggering, …)  To be stronger actors when requesting new features/improvements  Asking development of CERN specific using  Improving existing PXI cards for our needs

Industrial Controls Engineering Department CERN PXI Users Group 3  Mandate of the CERN PXI Users group :  Validate a catalogue of recommended components  Build knowledge base for configuration & use  Define the critical spare parts, managed by EN-ICE

Industrial Controls Engineering Department 4  More than 1500 PXI products are available  Proposal for a reduced list of well known equipment  From National Instruments and other firms  Based on most popular PXI cards used at CERN…  … and on domain specific components Catalogue of recommended components RF Generation & Analysis Instrument control VME GPIB RS-232/422/482 VXI Sound & Vibration

Industrial Controls Engineering Department 5  Several cards have the same purpose but with different specifications  i.e. DAQ cards  We propose to keep multifunction cards with the highest capabilities  The idea of this catalogue is to give a best support to the recommended components  It will be established on yearly basis and will be updated according to new requirements and obsolete devices Catalogue of recommended components

Industrial Controls Engineering Department 6 An Example from ITER

Industrial Controls Engineering Department Shared knowledge base 7  Build a knowledge base for configuration & use  People interested will be asked for examples, proven solutions, …  EN/ICE will gather information from CERN users  A Web tool will be developed  Examples of code for specific PXI cards  Programming structures by app. area (RT, fast ACQ, multi cards trig.)  Known issues / fixes  Information about restrictive features or device behavior  This will not be a copy of the  Only data to use or debug PXI systems  No specifications or guidelines for selecting components

Industrial Controls Engineering Department Shared knowledge base 8 PXI Support

Industrial Controls Engineering Department Critical spares identification 9  Define the critical spare parts, managed by EN/ICE  Based on risk analysis & impact on accelerator availability  Criticality is different for a test bench & operational system  Depending on the number of cards in use  On request also specific cards could be added to the spare list  For chassis, controllers and cards  EN/ICE will buy and store these components  They will be available for participating clients  On demand a spare component will be delivered  The user will then refund EN/ICE to replace this component  For operational systems the delivery could be done by SBS (24/24)

Industrial Controls Engineering Department Support for recommended & critical systems 10  Monitoring tools (based on DIAMON or MOON)  Technical Support, through our actual LabVIEW support (Odd O. Andreassen, Cedric charrondiere, Alessandro Raimondo, Adriaan Rijllart, Hubert Reymond)  For obsolescent systems, proposal for staged update  Remote reboot (standard BE/CO solution)  Extended warranty from NI  Discussions in progress

Industrial Controls Engineering Department PXI in CERN Accelerator Complex 11 LINAC 4

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