Front-End Group Home Page¶
Welcome to the Front-end Group's home Wiki page! The members of the Controls Department Front-End Group are:
Name | Extension | Misc |
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Dennis Nicklaus | x6410 | Group Leader |
Jerry Firebaugh | x4749 | |
Pierrick Hanlet | x5555 | |
Beau Harrison | x4756 | |
Rich Neswold | x3454 | |
Mike Sliczniak | x5637 | |
Jiaming You | x6682 |
Our group's home page is here: Front-End Group Home Page.
Comments about coding practices: Coding Rants
Front End Change Log¶
The Front End Change Log is for Front End programmers to describe recent changes to their front ends and how to undo these changes should they cause some unforeseen problems when the programmer is unavailable.
"How-To" Pages¶
"How-To" pages describe how to complete tasks that are fairly involved, yet aren't done frequent enough to commit to memory.
In order to get VxWorks to boot on your hardware, you first need to install the VxWorks boot ROM. These pages describe how to install a boot image on several VME processor boards.
Booting a machine in our control system requires a few, final configuration steps.
Creating a linux-based VME controller.
Our front-end development environment has gone through a few changes in the last year. Its documentation can be found following the link.
Use this link to request a new front end be added to Acnet
Moving a CVS repository to GIT.
Public Modules¶
Our group provides many generic VxWorks modules that are used in many front-end systems. You can learn more about them by following the corresponding link.
Library | Description |
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frontend.mk | A make include file that implements the front-end development environment |
MOOC | A VxWorks framework that implements the higher-level ACNET protocols. Drivers are written in C/C++. |
ACSys/FE | A Linux framework that implements the higher-level ACNET protocols. Drivers can be written either in Erlang or C++. |
ACNET | Provides ACNET connectivity to a VxWorks system |
vwpp | A library that wraps low level VxWorks primitives in a C++ interface. |
errlog | A logger library that replaces the internal VxWorks logger |
We also provide modules that control hardware:
Library | Description |
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SLD | CAMAC Serial link decoder. Also contains TCLK decoder. |
SSMLite | Software to communicate with the "SSM-Lite" |
V473 | A module that operates the VME 473 ramp generator |
Dabbel Documentation¶
Some systems provide documentation on the details of creating an Acnet device to access their hardware. This "Dabbel documentation" typically includes details on the various bit-fields of an SSDN. This documentation is automatically extracted from source code files and posted to the web at the FE Dabbel Help area.
Specific Front-End Systems¶
These links take you to documentation that's specific to a particular front-end architecture. For a more complete list of keepers and backup keepers, please see application D98.
System | Keeper(s) | Backup | Description |
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Beam Cycle Coord | Rich Neswold | Mike Sliczniak | Decodes beam cycles to help monitor beam transfers |
BeamLine | Rich Neswold | Dennis Nicklaus | These are CAMAC-based front-ends found in the fixed target lines |
Booster BPMs | Jimmy You | Booster BPM system | |
CAMAC | Rich Neswold | Dennis Nicklaus | These front-ends manage the CAMAC hardware |
Collimators | Rich Neswold | ||
ESECON | Dennis Nicklaus | Rich Neswold | LLRF Front-ends using CD's ESECON board |
Frig | Dennis Nicklaus | Cryogenic controls | |
GPIB | Jerry Firebaugh | Provides ACNET access to GPIB hardware | |
IRMs | Mike Sliczniak | ||
Linac | Mike Sliczniak | ||
Motion Controllers | Rich Neswold | ||
Multiwire | Jiaming You | Dennis Nicklaus | |
"Peanuts" | Jerry Firebaugh | ||
PLC | Jerry Firebaugh | Provides ACNET access to PLCs | |
RF Interlocks | Dennis Nicklaus | Jerry Firebaugh | RF Interlocks at HTS and NML |
QXR | Jerry Firebaugh | ||
SWICs | Jiaming You | Dennis Nicklaus | |
UCD | Rich Neswold | Dennis Nicklaus | Provides the TCLK multicast |
Vacuum | Jerry Firebaugh | Rich Neswold | Controls and monitors the vacuum system |
Other Pages¶
- Inventory of Industry Packs
- Inventory of PMC Hardware
- Inventory of VME cards
- Comparison of EPICS IOC and ACNET FEs
- Comparison of EPICS UI tools and ACNET UI tools
- Migrating our repo from
cvs
togit
- Timestamp Precision