1. Progress, plans and experiences
Controls Generic Front-End Software (CGFES) & CO Hardware Abstraction Layer (COHAL)
Progress, plans and experiences
Steen Jensen on behalf of / in collaboration with:
CLIC-ACM team: F. Locci, S. Magnoni, B. Bielawski FESA team: S. Deghaye, G. Sivatskiy CCDB team: Z. Zaharieva, J. Lopez De Coca, A. Fernandes CMX team: F. Ehm, Y. Fischer, P. Jurcso Timing team: J.-C. Bau, I. Kozsar, X. Piroux Driver team: D. Cobas, M. Arruat, J. Lewis, L. Gago Installation team: C. Dehavay, E. Said, S. Catin HW team: M. Cattin, T. Wlostowski OASIS team: A. Poncet, R. Bella

2. Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013
Presentation
Context and architecture overview
Objectives
CGFES workflow
COHAL progress
CGFES progress
Device migration planning
Experiences and suggestions
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

3. Context and architecture overview
- After LS1, equipment groups will be responsible for their own systems/FECs and will provide first line support for them - Some controls-related FEC functionalities are generic and is provided by CO - CGFES (CO Generic Front-end Software) provides FESA classes supporting the following functionalities: Function generation Digital input/output Analog input/output
Delay of pulses
- COHAL = CO Hardware Abstraction Layer
Applications / Working sets / Knobs
InCA/LSA/AcqCore
CMW
FESA framework
CGFES (FESA classes)
COHAL
Driverlib
Driver
Firmware
FEC module
Field bus
Machine hardware
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

4. Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013
Objectives
Migrate a maximum number of GM devices to FESA3
Migrate a maximum number of FESA2 devices to FESA3
Align the COHAL layer with CO standards
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

5. Class/instance migration workflow
FESA2
class GM
class
Class code
Class design
Class design
GM Class design
Instance data
“D1” (GM )
“D1-OLD”
Instance file
(“D1-NEW”)
Device
migration map
Instance data
FESA3 instances
“D1-NEW” (FESA3)
@FEC1
Class
migration map
Meta-data
Deploy Unit Design
Deploy Unit
“D1” (FESA3)
@FEC1
WorkingSet/Knob definitions
FESA3 developer workspace
CCDB
Deploy Unit
D1 Reference
Settings
Working set D1
Knob D1
D1 (FESA3 )
InCA DB
FEC1
Consoles
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

6. CGFES - Classes June 2013 New November 2013
Machine hardware
Field bus
FEC module
Firmware
Driver
Driverlib
COHAL
CGFES (FESA classes)
FESA framework
CMW
InCA/LSA/AcqCore
Applications / Working sets / Knobs
CGAFG
CGPFG
LN2WDog
CGDIO
CGAO
CGAI
FEAlimMonitor
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dio ao ai
fecdiag
SNMP
CVORB
CVORG
GFAS
VMOD-TTL
VMOD-DOR
ICV196
VMOD-12A2
VMOD-12E8
WIENER crate
Todo: 3 classes - bitmaps, enums and values
New
CGAFG
CGPFG
Ln2WDog
CGDIO
CGAO
CGAI
FEAlimMonitor
CGTDEL
cohal-diag
cohal-diag
cohal-diag
cohal-diag
cohal-diag
cohal-diag
November 2013
cohal-fg
cohal-dio
cohal-ao
cohal-ai
cohal-fecdiag
cohal-tim
SNMP
CVORB
CVORG
GFAS
VMOD-TTL
VMOD-DOR
ICV196
VMOD-12A2
VMOD-12E8
WIENER crate
FMC-FINE-DELAY
Done: New ICV196 driver integrated
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

7. Progress COHAL now conforms to CO standards
Moved to Make generic
Releasing to SVN as <project>/<project-product>
Deploying using major.minor.tiny versioning
Documentation re-enabled and linked with CGFES Wiki
No support for LynxOS in new version
Compiles for SLC5 and SLC6
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

8. Progress COHAL now provides diagnostics
Exceptions standardized and catchable by FESA
cmwLogging integrated
CMX integrated
New timing library (timdt) integrated
No timing service provided to FESA classes
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

9. CGFES Class/instance migration
FESA2
class GM
class
Class code
Class design
Class design
GM Class design
Instance data
“D1” (GM )
“D1-OLD”
Instance file
(“D1-NEW”)
Device
migration map
Instance data
FESA3 instances
“D1-NEW” (FESA3)
@FEC1
Class
migration map
Meta-data
Deploy Unit Design
Deploy Unit
“D1” (FESA3)
@FEC1
WorkingSet/Knob definitions
FESA3 developer workspace
CCDB
Deploy Unit
D1 Reference
Settings
Working set D1
Knob D1
D1 (FESA3 )
InCA DB
FEC1
Consoles
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

10. CGFES progress Class implementations nearly done
CGFES Class
Status
Functionality
CGAFG
Done: Migrated from FESA2 to FESA3
Arbitrary Function Generation
CGPFG
Periodic Function Generation
CGDIO-B
Done: New FESA3 class implemented
Digital I/O, bitmap
CGDIO-E
Being implemented
Digital I/O, enumeration
CGDIO-C
Digital I/O, continuous
CGAO
Done: Upgraded to latest FESA3 version
Analogue output
CGAI
Analogue input
CGTDEL
Pulse delays
FEAlimMonitor
Todo: Migration to FESA3 + ELMA support
FEC power supply monitoring via SNMP
SISL2Watchdog
Todo: Upgrade to latest FESA3
Linac2 watchdog
Legend: Ok
Minor work remains
Some work remains
Problems
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

11. CGFES progress Class migration maps nearly done
Status
GFAS -> CGAFG
Done
DIGIO->CGDIO-B
(Done)
DIGIO->CGDIO-E
Todo
DIGCTL->CGDIO-C
AIOX->CGAO
AIOX->CGAI
CGTDEL
FEAlimMonitor
SISL2Watchdog
Legend: Ok
Minor work remains
Some work remains
Problems
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

12. CGFES / COHAL estimates Developments/tests
Class
Todo
Effort
Who
COHAL
Diagnostics
3 days
Steen
CGAFG
Test
1 day
Stefano
CGPFG
CGDIO_E
Develop/test
2 days
Bartek/Steen
CGDIO_C
CGAO
CGAI
FEAlimMonitor
Move to FESA3 + ELMA support
SISL2Watchdog
Upgrade FESA3
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

13. Planning Device migrations
Machine
Migration
Submit by
Ready by
Needed by
PSB
4 DIGIO -> CGDIO
29 Nov2013
13 Dec 2013
01 Feb 2014*
CPS
75 GFAS -> CGAFG
29 Nov 2013
07 Apr 2014*
6 DIGIO -> CGDIO
13 DIGCTL -> CGDIO
3 PTIMD -> CGTDEL
LEI
4 AIOX -> CGAO
Dec 2014
3 GFAS -> CGAFG
17 Jan 2014
> March 2014
12 DIGCTL -> CGDIO
2 PTIMD -> CGTDEL AD
17 Jan 2013
31 Jan 2013
6 DIGCTL -> CGDIO
CTF
13 PTIMD -> CGTDEL
As requested
* No EIS devices => not needed for access tests in Feb 2014
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

14. Experiences and suggestions
Product
Issue
Suggestion / comment
CCDB
Migration of instance data
Class-by-Class solution involving expert
Promotion requires manual DU renaming/deletion
Solved: Tool available since Tuesday 19 Nov
Event mapping FESA2 -> FESA3
Automate
FESA
Rolling buffer
Seems to work now
USER.ALL
Solved: isRealUser()
Alarm key length check
Todo
Plugin functionality – guidance and reporting
Issues solved
CMX/CLIC
CMX atomic operations (SIP4C, 13 Nov 2013)
Must be stabilized soon
CLIC agents not up to date
Update for CMX compatibility
Timing
Crash of timdt on initialization
Reported as fixed yesterday, not yet tested by CGFES
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

15. Experiences and suggestions
Product
Issue
Suggestion
Driver
Bugs – ICV196, Fine-Delay, CVORB load delay
Pre-release testing
driverLib
Deploy-location not clear
Decide deploy location
Deploy-approach not as in other projects
Follow CO convention of project/product based
Versioning
Follow CO convention of major.minor.tiny
Firmware
Bugs – Fine-Delay address space, CVORB loading
No release/deploy management
Implement release/deployment management
Different version in operational modules
Test procedure in connection with physical installation
Hardware
Failures – Fine-delay
Test stand for testing modules
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

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Conclusions
Changes in many components lead to big debugging overhead
COHAL layer aligned with CO conventions
CGFES FESA3 development 90% done, will be ready on time
Device migrations will be ready on time
Required in order to prepare for operation:
Stabilize FESA / CCDB
Stabilize CMX
driverLib versioning, preferably as project/product
Firmware deployment procedure
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

17. Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

18. Device migrations – GM to CGFES
Machine
GFAS
DIGIO
DIGCTL
PTIMD
FDELAY
AIOX
CPS
101/~75/0
15/6/0
35/13/0
35/3/0
0/0/0
PSB
73/0/18
6/4/0
55/0/0
14/0/2
LEI - tbc
3/3/0
13/12/0
8/2/0
4/4/0 AD
23/0/0
17/6/0
67/6/0
14/2/0
11/2/0
CTF - tbc
10/0?/0
13/?/0
48/0?/0
127/0?/0
LN2
5/0/0
LN3
7/0/0
1/0/0
LN4
SPS
LHC
REX
ISO
current/todo/done
Legend: Ok
Minor work remains
Some work remains
Problems
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013

19. Device migrations – FESA2 to FESA3
Machine
CGAFG
CGPFG
CGDIO
CGAO
CGAI
CGTDEL
CPS
23/?/0
0/0/0
SPS
1/?/0
LEI
59/?/0 AD
52/52/0
CTF
4/?/0
24/?/0
REX
12/12/0
ISO
1/1/0
LN2
LN3
LN4
PSB
LHC
current/todo/done
Legend: Ok
Minor work remains
Some work remains
Problems
Steen Jensen, BE-CO-FE - CO Technical Commitee, 21 November 2013