1. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 1 G. Oliaro - WBS 5 Central Instrumentation/Data Acquisition and Controls Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory NCSX PDR 5/22/02 Princeton NJ 08543

2. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 2 WBS 5 Project Elements WBS 51 TCP/IP network Infrastructure WBS 52 Central Facilities I&C WBS 53 Diagnostic Data Acquisition and Facility Computing WBS 54 Facility Timing and Synchronization WBS 55 Real Time Plasma and Power Supply Control System WBS 56 Central Safety and Interlock System WBS 57 Control Room Facility

3. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 3 Primary Design Basis of WBS 5 The NCSX Design Leverages the NSTX Technology and Experience Base and Provides a Low Risk - Cost Effective Implementation. – Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) – Maximize Use of Open Source (Free) Software – Just-In-Time Design & Purchase – Steer Current NSTX Upgrades to Benefit NCSX Network CAMAC Replacement to CPCI & PCI Synchronization System Plasma Control (FIMM) – CAMAC Instrumentation Will Not Be Used In Design

4. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 4 WBS 51 TCP/IP network Infrastructure Common Backbone For All NCSX Data Communications Minimum 100Mbps with possible 1Gbps uplinks – Cost Base – Experience Base Use existing PPLnet backbone for Physics requirements Extend existing NSTX Engineering Network to lower costs Utilize existing firewall protection for Engineering network Provide Fiber Optic network infrastructure for machine platform environment Provide a total of 12-24 new day 0 network drops for NCSX Facility at D-Site and C-Site

5. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 5 WBS 51 TCP/IP network Infrastructure Hub and Fiber Patch Point modifications in 5 PPPL Locations – D-Site FCPC, D-Site MG, C-Site S1, C-Site NCSX Control Room, PPLCC, and NSTX Control Room Use Existing Network C-Site to D-Site Fiber Optic Runs Share Engineering Subnet with NSTX to Allow Seamless Sharing of Common Resources 2X60 fibers C-Site/D-Site for Plasma Control/Utility I&C, Timing and Synchronization 96 Diagnostic Fiber Optic Cables Between Test Cell and Control Room

6. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 6 WBS 52 Central Facilities I&C Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) Distributed Control System (DCS) Well Established World Wide User Community Multi-Platform & OS Base Scales to hundreds of thousands of points Multiple I/O Capability – PLCs – Native EPICS Input Output Controller (IOC) – VME, PCI, CPCI, … – Interfaces to Standard DCS Capabilities – Trending – Alarms & Alarm Logging – Graphical Mimics, Control & Monitoring

7. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 7 WBS 52 Central Facilities I&C NCSX Day 0Current NSTX I/O Points2002000 Access to PLC I/O Points 1003000 Internal/External EPICS records 500(?)8000+ Number of Subsystems 515 Control, Monitoring & Test Pages & Mimics 20150 Display Stations422 NCSX/NXTX EPICS Parameter Comparison

8. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 8 WBS 52 Central Facilities I&C Support for 5 Day 0 Engineering Subsystems WBS 21 Fueling Systems WBS 22 Vacuum Pumping Systems WBS 43 Magnet Power Systems WBS 62 Water Systems WBS 63 Cryogenic Systems Support for additional Subsystems after 1 st year WBS 23 First Wall Conditioning, Thermocouples for Bakeout, GDC WBS 24 RF Heating Systems, ICH WBS 25 Neutral Beam Heating Systems WBS 42 Motor Generators

9. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 9 WBS 53 Diagnostic Data Acquisition and Facility Computing Design Objectives – All Data Available Online for Life of Machine – Access to All Engineering Process Control Data – Redundancy All Data on RAID 5 Battery Backup Cache Dual Power Supply Auto Configured Hot Spare RAID 5 Disk – Archive 3 Copies of Raw & Process Data Nightly Backup of Local Data Acquisition Computer & Central Data Server Data continuously Maintained on Central RAID 5 Storage Array

10. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 10 WBS 53 Diagnostic Data Acquisition and Facility Computing MDSplus (MIT) Set of Tools – Setup, Data Acquisition, Post-Processing Analyses, and Display – Pulsed Mode Experiments MDSplus is becoming “standard” in fusion research throughout the world Rich interface to platforms and languages – MDSplus Ported to VMS, Windows, UNIX – API’s for FORTRAN, C, Java, IDL, Visual Basic, and LabView. PPPL will have a strong base of UNIX based MDSplus experience for NCSX design and startup requirements

11. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 11 WBS 53 Diagnostic Data Acquisition and Facility Computing Deploy 2 remote Data Acquisition I/O Processors (VME, CPI, CPCI) – 32 channels of magnetics sensors -16 bit,100KHz – E-Beam Measurements, 32 channels – 16 bit, 10 KHz – 32-64 channels of digital input & output points – One frame grabber Deploy Primary UNIX Based MDSplus Data Acquisition Server with small data store of under 1TB After the first year of operations: – Augment PPPL Facility Tape Backup System to 0.5 -1.0 PB – Augment PPPL Facility Compute Cluster

12. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 12 WBS 54 Facility Timing and Synchronization A new PCI based Timing And Synchronization System designed for NSTX will be deployed for NCSX. – Xilinx XC2S200, Spartan II, 200,000 logic & RAM gate FPGA – CeSys PCI XC2S board ~$400 – Each board has 6 multi-function channels Timing Timed Gate Time Interval Counter Clock Generator Timing & Sequencing – A Signal Conditioning and Interface board has been designed to allow full output capabilities, (TTL, transformer & opto isolated)

13. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 13 WBS 54 Facility Timing and Synchronization NCSXNSTX (TFTR 1970s) Guaranteed Simultaneity 1us20 us-1ms Event Codes25616 Resolution100ns (10MHz)1us (1MHz) Single Clock Generator with Multiple Receiver System

14. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 14 WBS 55 Real Time Plasma and Power Supply Control System Use Existing Hardware and Software System In Use For NSTX – Two Merlin 4 333MHz PPC Boards (20+ GFLOPS Total) – Clone Software With Parameter Changes for NCSX Power Supply RTC (PSRTC) Software GA Plasma Control System (PCS) Software Add 64 Digitizer Channels in NCSX Test Cell in Two Crates – Systran FiberExtreme Fiber Channel (1 Gbps) to Power Supply Building – DMA (160MBps) Into Array Processor Using PPPL Developed FPDP Input Multiplexing Module (FIMM)

15. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 15 WBS 56 Central Safety and Interlock System Multi Site – Access Control at 2 Doors – Door Interlocks – E-Stop – Inputs from all Day 0 subsystems Fail Safe Design – PLC monitoring and display – Outboard Mechanical Watch Dog Timers – Hard Wire Backup – Planned At This Time – UPS (?) EPICS Monitoring

16. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 16 WBS 57 Control Room Facility 3200 sq.ft. Main Control Room & 600 sq.ft. Diagnostic Rack Space (Only a small portion of this will be used for Day ) operations) – Installation of 4 dual workstation tables wired for network and power. – Installation of 12-15 equipment racks wired for network and power. – Test Cell PA system – Wireless Ethernet for the Physics network to support visitors and laptop computers

17. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 17 Conclusions The NCSX Design Leverages the NSTX Technology and Experience Base and Provides a Low Risk - Cost Effective Implementation. – Schedule Mirrors Actual NSTX Experience – Backend Loading Saves Cost and Optimizes Technology Choices – PPPL IT Infrastructure Upgrades Today Will Benefit NCSX – Technology Empowers Small (<10) Experienced NSTX Team

18. NCSX NCSX Project Design Review ‒ October 7-9, 2003 G. Oliaro 18 WBS 5 Cost & Schedule Central I&C (WBS 5) cost summary by expense class (WBS Level 3) Central I&C (WBS 5) cost summary by year of expenditure (WBS Level 2)