1. Wayne Salter, CERN The LHC Experiments’ Joint Controls Project Framework ALICE DCS Day 10 th September 2001

2. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 2 Control System Framework

3. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 3 Control System Framework PVSS Core SCADA (PVSS) Framework Supervisory Application FSM, DB, Web, etc. Supervision Front-end VME/PC (Linux) SLiC FE Application PLC UNICOS FE Application Communication OPC, DIM, ?

4. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 4 Components of the Framework uPVSS Development Guidelines Document uDevices FA framework device is a representation of a real- world device or a logical entity FDevice consists of  PVSS Data Point Type  Library  Panels uUtilities FAct on the Devices  configure  browse  operate  etc

5. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 5 Supported Devices uAnalog-Digital devices FAnalog Input/Output FDigital Input/Output FProcess Monitor uCAEN devices FCrate SY127 FCrate SY403 FCrate SY527 FCAEN board FCAEN channel

6. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 6 Supported Devices (II) uWiener Fan Tray uELMB uNode FMeans to build hierarchies of devices FComposite device

7. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 7 Utilities uEditor/Navigator uExternal Alarm Handler uDevice Support Extension uGeneric External Handler uImport of Front-End Configuration uControls Hierarchy + FSM

8. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 8 Future Work uCAEN crate 1527 (underway) uMass configuration tool uHistorical data handling utility uIntegrate UNICOS framework

9. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 9 Controls Technologies

10. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 10 Control System Components 1 Standards defined by Controls Board, JCOP, IT/CO uSupervision: PVSS SCADA Toolkit uProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs): Siemens and Schneider (with UNICOS PLC library) uField Buses CAN Bus, ProfiBus, WorldFIP, (and possibly Ethernet) uOLE for Process Control (OPC) Interface for Commercial H/W available on Windows uDistributed Information Manager (DIM) Interim solution for non-commercial H/W Information/Support for a variety of equipment: Wago, Wiener, Applicom, SoftPLCs, N.I., Beckhoff, etc. IT/CO Home Page: http://itcowww.cern.ch/welcome.html

11. W. SalterALICE DCS Day – 10 th September 2001 11 Control System Components 2 JCOP “Framework”: customisation for HEP //itcowww.cern.ch/jcop/subprojects/Framework/welcome.html uProvides standard utilities and pre-defined components Drivers & Panels for HV, ADCs, Fan Trays,... uPVSS implementation Guidelines uFinite State Machine (SMI) integrated with PVSS uCustom Front-End “SLiC” C++ Class library + Communications & Error Handling... For VME and PC H/W (LINUX + possibly NT) Details: //itcofe.web.cern.ch/itcofe/Projects/SLiC/welcome.html uLab. Systems: National Instruments LabView