# Presentation: 881845

## ILC Controls in CD

## CD involved on 2 fronts

- Global Effort – design of the ILC controls system
- FNAL involvement started at Snowmass
- Prior to that design was based on NLC and TTF
- Part of global collaboration -
- Close collaboration with ANL, SLAC and AD/TD
- Produced BCD in Fall 2005; now working on RDR
- First group to give Cost estimates to GDE
- FNAL FY07 request for global controls effort ~2.5 FTE
- ILCTA Controls – test areas needed for cavity testing
- Work in progress for over a year.
- Has been ad hoc
- SLAC and ANL interested in collaborating a low level
- FNAL FY07 request for ILTCA controls ~11 FTE
- Efforts managed jointly (at least budget authority) past spring
- Margaret Votava task lead, Mike Kucera (AD/Controls) deputy

## Global - RDR

- First pass at WBS and costing for RDR meeting in Vancouver
- CD provided experience and expertise in electronics packaging,  network architecture, commodity computing, data acquisition, and data storage.
- CD worked with other divisions to provide LLRF, architecture, and remote operations expertise.
- Effort is very collaborative among ANL, FNAL, and SLAC
- KEK participates in weekly meetings (horrible time difference)
- DESY on and off
- FNAL Personnel
- AD Brian Chase (LLRF), Jim Patrick (architecture)
- CD Patty McBride, Vince Pavlicek, Margaret Votava, Gustavo Cancelo
- PPD Erik Gottschalk (remote operations)

## Global – R&D

- ATCA
- Just purchased ATCA crate – to be delivered
- Goals – joint effort with ILC instrumentation
- Gain practical experience in technology
- Test viability as a technology for instrumentation
- Build a ATCA digitizer board for use at NML
- Primarily AD effort (Charlie Briegel and Alexei Sememov)
- FY07 R&D proposals
- High availability studies
- “Gap” analysis study – evaluating existing control system
- Timing and phase distribution

## ILCTA - Controls Management

- Budget, Effort reporting, Project planning, etc.
- Workforce very distributed
- AD – horizontal test facility, cryo
- CD – A0/TTF test facility, infrastructure
- PPD – cryo, epics expertise
- TD – vertical test facility
- Difficult to manage
- Some staffing is “best effort” – people only have time to do it on the side.
- Controls system schizophrenia
- DOOCS, EPICS, Labview, Matlab
- Visions/priorities from the top not always clear, sometimes conflicting
- Communication weak
- Not successfully utilizing SLAC personnel nor ANL, but ANL may have to back out of ILCTA due to lack of funds.

## ILCTA – Controls system choices

- ACNET
- Not seriously considered a choice, but still highly favored by AD personnel
- DOOCS
- Provides interfaces to other controls system including epics
- Hardware coming from TTF will most likely have DOOCS interfaces already available.
- EPICS
- Provides interfaces to other controls system except DOOCS
- Utility provided by DESY to do this, but needs upgrading.
- On our todo list, would be nice to get ANL help
- APACS
- Underlying proprietary software used for MDB and NML cryo
- IFIX
- Commercial SCADA system will be used to commission MDB cryo
- Engineering development tools
- Preferred method (by test stand users) to do curve fitting, data analysis
- Labview, Matlab. Licenses are expensive, especially if floating

## ILCTA - Committees

- Helps to provide consistency across test areas
- Electronic Logbook
- 8 member team, cross divisional, cross lab (SLAC, ANL). Headed by Rob Kutschke (CD)
- Completed evaluation end of June
- Recommended CRL+ (ie, CRL + 6 months development work)
- Awaiting cross divisional agreement on support
- Data Management
- Just forming. Headed by Peter Kasper (AD)
- Started as an idea to manage data produced at FNAL ILCTA test areas, but has grown to be repository of production data for all cavity data produced in the US.
- Something ready in 6 months

## ILCTA – A0

- “oldest” of the areas, Several components from DESY
- Done on a shoestring budget, HW and SW done piecemeal, includes some components from DESY.
- ACNET cryo
- DOOCS – LLRF, BPM, HRM, Signal Generator (GPIB) (FANL/CD)
- EPICS –
- photoinjector, 3.9 GHz coupler conditioning, capture cavity 2 (before) - (mostly CD)
- Sequencer for coupler conditioning not yet done, both in DOOCS and EPICS
- Who is in charge of coupler conditioning across test areas?
- Ron Rechenmacher (CD), Luciano Piccoli (CD)

## ILCTA – MDB

- horizontal test facility and coupler processing
- Including capture cavity 2
- Cryo is EPICS based (providing human interface to APACS)
- Driving effort for EPICS only
- Wrote EPICS interface to LLRF (previously only DOOCS) (FNAL/AD)
- EPICS Interfaces for
- Timing board (FNAL/AD)
- Interlocks (FNAL/PPD)
- Signal generator?
- Dennis Nicklaus (AD), Paul Joireman (AD), Sharon Lackey (AD), Vladimir Sirotenko (PPD), Geoff Savage (PPD)

## ILCTA IB1, NML

- IB1 (mostly TD)
- Cryo is IFIX. Might consider EPICS
- Headed for EPICS only
- Will use LLRF EPICS port from AD
- Extensive Labview expertise
- Jerzy Nogiec (TD), Dennis Shpakov (TD)
- NML (mostly not done ;-) )
- Requirements still being discussed
- Cryo modeled after MDB (EPICS)
- Photoinjector (with DOOCS interface) will not move?
- ATCA digitizer board test site

## FY07 Goals

- Global group
- RDR complete
- Big strides in TDR
- Understand viable control system alternatives
- ATCA outlook
- ILCTA
- Vertical and Horizontal test stands are fully automated
- Controls for cryomodule test facility (NML) is designed.
- Data management system/Elogbook is in place for all test areas