# Presentation: 219981

## ILCTA Controls Status

**April 12, 2007**

## Getting Updates

**Most of these slides stolen from CD ILC-Forum talk last week – all were invited. **
**Please review monthly status reports. For the most part, we are writing them for you. They are available in DocDB**
**http://docdb.fnal.gov/ILC-public/DocDB/DocumentDatabase**
**Please read these and help us prioritize. Personnel effort is so small, that every request you make, slows down progress somewhere else. **
**Second monitor for coupler**

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## SCRF Focus 

**Infrastructure support**
**Core controls system(s) support, development, and configuration management including code packaging and distribution**
**Controls systems include EPICS, DOOCS and diagnostic systems such as LabView and MatLab**
**Develop cavity data management system **
**not the group of people that you interface with**
**Additional component support including system management, electronic logbook, cavity data management system **
**Test area specific**
**NML specific development**
**Develop timing and clock system that are required for first beam operation**
**Develop interfaces for new components for instrumentation and control **
**Develop controls interface for ATCA BPMs**
**Develop/configure NML application software**
**HTS/VTS ongoing support – updating processes, and user interfaces as more experience with the cavities is gleaned. **

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## Labor Resources Needed

**Labor - ~12 FTE annually**
**Infrastructure support**
**NML specific support**
**HTS/VTS support**
**Cavity Data Management Development (1 year only)**
**Details later**
**CD: Ron, Luciano, Margaret, New Hire, Bakul, Rob Kutschke, Connie/Troy**
**AD: Mike Kucera (SCRF Controls Deputy Head), Sharon Lackey (Head while Margaret gone), Dennis Nicklaus, Jerry Firebaugh, Jimmy You, Michele McCusker-Whiting**
**PPD: Geoff Savage, Vladimir Sirotenko**
**UofI contract – Micheal Davidsaver**
**Does not include support for Tim**
**3.0 -> 3.5 FTEs effort reported this quarter. **
**4 != 12**

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## Annual Labor Details

**About 8.5 possible FTEs identified spread over 25 people in 4 divisions (bulk in AD and CD)**
**Connie/Troy starting sys admin support**
**Two new people in AD/Controls starting. Large learning curve**
**In processing of hiring new full time person. Interviewing is taking away people’s time.  **
**In process of establishing collaboration with UofI. Student arriving midMay**

| NML Specific Software Development | 3 FTE |
| --- | --- |
| NML Specific Hardware Engineering | 2 FTE
 |
| New instrumentation interfaces | 0.5 FTE, increases over time |
| Network Switch installation | 0.2 FTE |
| Data Management Development  | 2.5 FTE, decreases over time |
| ILCTA infrastructure | 3.5 FTE  |
| HTF Support  | 0.5 FTE
 |
| VTS Support | 0.25 FTE |

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## Global Infrastructure

**Establishing EPICS installation layout**
**Epics has it’s own build system that is different than the FNAL/CD standard way. **
**Primarily paths are hardcoded, not determined via environment variables. This has a large implication on build and distribution strategies. **
**Have a proposal almost done for managing built software. Need to work on how to manage area-specific configuration information. **
**Naming convention for EPICS variables**
**Proposal in AD Doc database**
**http://beamdocs.fnal.gov/AD-public/DocDB/ShowDocument**
**Consistent for HINS and ILC**
**Make data transition between DOOCS and EPICS easier**
**Front end supprt**
**Including dumping of SPARC boards**
**System Management**
**Connie/Troy helping here **
**Custom kernels, many behind AD firewall, in remote locations, etc. **
**CRL installed and in use**

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## VTS

**Not much to say**
**Controls system in LabView. Provided by JLab as part of MOU. **
**Needs to interface to CRL and cavity data management system. **

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## MDB Controls Overview

**...**

**LabView App**
**(Diagnostics)**

**MatLab App**
**(Diagnostics)**

**EPICS APP**
**(State Machine)**

**Electronic**
**Logbook (CRL)**

**Data **
**Management**

** ****1G Ethernet**

**...**

**EPICS APP**
**(Archiving)**

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## HTF/CC2

**Primarily EPICS, but LLRF in DOOCS**
**Todo list**
**Establish “standard” EPICS (and friends) installation so we can support it. **
**LLRF Controller is SPARC board. It’s old and problematic. Working on replacing it with an X86 running Linux.**
**Hit by roadblocks, eg Matlab version increase with know prior knowledge. **
**Still includes ACNET for RF interface**
**New interlock crates with additional digitizers will fix this**
**Want to Alarm/Archive in EPICS**
**Get Doocs2Epics interface running. **
**Upgrade DOOCS Driver with new server (firmware has changed)**
**Automation, Automation, Automation**
**Dennis Nicklaus away at LHC for summer May -> September. **
**Documentation**

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## A0

**Prototype of many pieces of equipment moving to NML**
**Photoinjector**
**OTR devices**
**BPMs**
**Strictly DOOCS**
**Various operational support issues**
**Servers didn’t start after March shutdown. Lot of confusion due to second ip address assigned to spitefire06. **

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## A0 Layout

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## DOOCS Display of A0

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## NML Controls Work

**Weekly status meetings**
**Monthly report (all of ILC controls activity)**
**Requirements document started**
**Lack of progress on timing is turning out to be a big deal**
**MS Project Plan started**
**Control room outfitting in progress, equipment being ordered**
**Cosylab Epics embedded IOC ordered and being tested. **
**Cryo components being brought online**
**Would like website to help document**
**Lower priority than other ILCTA areas (HTF/VTS/A0)**
**=> suffers in schedule delay because personnel often the same. **
**Instrumentation effort has discovered that Ron (and Luciano) are great at integration.**

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## NML Controls Overview

**Electronic**
**Logbook (CRL)**

**Data **
**Management**

** ****1G Ethernet**

**...**

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