Spring 2017 EPICS Collaboration Meeting @KURRIEPICS on RTEMS 4.12
H. Junkes (Fritz-Haber-Institut)
Epics was portet to RTEMS 4.12 for MVME6100 and MVME2500 for
fast data acquisition. Uses pva for storing ndntarray onarchiverAppliance.
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Overview of EPICS-based control system for cERL andiBNCTT. Obina (KEK)
EPICS has been used as control system for the compact Energy
Recovery Linac (cERL) at KEK, and for the Ibaraki Boron Neutron
Capture Therapy (iBNCT) facility. Overview of the control system ofeach facility will be reported at first and some of software/hardware
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Single board computers for EPICS IOC and its reliability
at RIKEN RIBF
A. UCHIYAMA (RIKEN Nishina Center)In accelerator control systems, single board computers typified byBeagle bone black and Raspberry Pi are now utilized as a server, which
run EPICS IOC. For network-based control devices in RIKEN RIBF
control system, we introduced PC engines WRAP (Wireless Router
Application Platform), which is the single board computer, as EPICS
IOC in 2006. Currently, PC engines ALIX single board computer as thesuccessor model of WRAP is utilized for soft IOC. In order to buildLinux for ALIX, we used the method of LFS (Linux From Scratch).
Therefore, we can design the compact Linux minimized for EPICS IOC
as one of the features in our system. In April 2017, the control system
continues to grow and implements about 30 ALIX single board
computers, and the EPICS IOCs manage more than 420 network
devices. When using single board computer in EPICS environment, itsreliability and lifetime are often considered. Since the operation of thesingle board computer as EPICS IOC in RIKEN RIBF has already been inimplementation for over 10 years, this presentation will be discussed
its operational status, reliability from the implementation experience,and the future plan.
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LIPAc ProjectA. Marqueta (F4E - IFMIF/LIPAc)
The development of IFMIF (International Fusion Material Irradiation
Facility) to generate a 14 MeV source of neutrons with the spectrumof D-T fusion reactions is indispensable to qualify suitable materials
for the First Wall of the nuclear vessel in fusion power plants. As partof IFMIF validation activities, LIPAc (Linear IFMIF PrototypeAccelerator) facility, currently under installation at Rokkasho (Japan),will accelerate a 125mA CW and 9MeV deuteron beam with a total
beam power of 1.125MW.
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The Design of a Detector Control System Based onEPICS
M. Ye (Institute of High Energy Physics)
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is thesecond phase of the reactor neutrino experiment. The detector of theexperiment was designed as a 20k ton LS with a Inner diameter of34.5 meters casting material acrylic ball shape. There are approximate
10k monitoring point of temperature and humidity and about 20k
channels of high voltage of PMTs, electric crates as well as the powermonitoring points. The paper will introduce the design of theframework _based on EPICS. The implementation of the IOCs of thehigh-voltage crate and modules, stream device drivers, and theembedded temperature firmware will be presented. The software
realization and the remote control method will be presented as wellas the development of the GUIs by CSS (Control System Studio). The
upgrade framework can be widely used in the project with the similar
hardware and software interfaces.
Spring 2017 EPICS Collaboration Meeting @KURRIEPICS environment at J-PARC neutrino facility
K. Nakayoshi (KEK)High intensity neutrino beam is produced at the neutrino facility in JPARC.
Spring 2017 EPICS Collaboration Meeting @KURRIEPICS Education at University
M. Iwasaki (Osaka City University)
In this talk, I'd like to introduce the EPICS education in Osaka CityUniversity.
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Development of MQTT-Channel Access Bridge
J. Fujita (Creighton Universtiy/STAR Experiment)
The integration of the Data Acquisition, Offline Processing andHardware Controls using MQTT has been proposed for the STARExperiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory. _This created theneed to develop a way to bridge MQTT and Channel Accessbidirectionally. _We have developed a prototype for such a MQTTChannel Access bridge.
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ChatOps
M. Clarke (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
As an experiment it was decided to integrate the basic functionality ofcaget into the popular developer communication tool Slack. This talkprovides an overview of what was required to set up a customSlackbot that allows team members to issue a caget command via
Slack.
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USB Human Interface Devices and EPICS
K. C. Lang (Argonne National Laboratory)
Human Interface Devices encompass a large variety of useful ways toexpose different controls to your users, including Keyboards, Mice,Buttons, Joysticks, and Gamepads. This talk will demonstrate theEPICS Human Interface Device library and how easy it makes
incorporating these off-the-rack USB devices into an EPICS _controls
setup, as well as enabling the cheap, easy creation of custom controls
hardware using HID development boards.
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ITER & CODAC Core System - Status Update
R. Lange (ITER Organization)
Within the ITER international organization, 35 nations arecollaborating to build the world's largest fusion facility in the South ofFrance. Most contributions are in-kind - integration of more than 200
separately developed plant systems will be the main challenge whenbuilding the control system.
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Status of fast controller EPICS device supports for ITER
ProjectV. B. PATEL (ITER Organization)
As a large scale scientific project, ITER presents technologicalchallenges to its control system, e.g. scalability for a highly distributed
large system, as well as management challenges, e.g. the distributed
manufacturing of subsystems over a very long time span.
Standardization is a key feature of the ITER CODAC (Control, Data
Access and Communication) system. EPICS has been selected as asoftware standard, and a catalog with controllers and various PXI/PXIe
IO boards has been set up to standardize fast controller hardware. For
the supported hardware, EPICS drivers have been developed and arebeing shipped to ITER domestic agencies and suppliers of ITER
components. This talk presents the status of the EPICS device supportfor ITER fast controller boards.
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ITER AC/DC Converter Control System
R. Lee (Dawonsys)
ITER coil power supply system consists of TF converter, 6 CS
converters, 6 PF converters and 9 CC converters and they are sharedby two contries, Korea and China.
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Status of _I&C System Development for ITER Diagnostic
Systems in JapanT. Yamamoto (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Scienceand Technology)ITER is an experimental nuclear fusion device to validate theengineering design which is basis of a fusion power reactor in future.
ITER is being constructed in south France by seven countries andregion. Plasma diagnostic systems are very important components ofthe fusion reactor to control plasma stably. Japan Domestic Agency(JADA) of the ITER project will provide five diagnostic systems to ITER.
Design activities for the diagnostics systems are carried out by JADA.
All ITER components should be controlled in a same manner to reduce
the risk of integration. EPICS was selected for basis of the control
software for ITER components to ensure the standardization of thecontrol systems.
Development of local control system for ITER Gyrotron
using EPICS
Y. Hashimoto (Japan EXpert Clone Corp.)
In the ITER project, Japan Domestic Agency (JADA) is responsible fordevelopment of eight gyrotrons, which produce 170 GHz radio
frequency. Sixteen gyrotrons will be developed by Europe, India andRussia Domestic Agencies. Therefore, integration of the gyrotron
systems is very important. Plant Control Design Handbook (PCDH)
defines rules and guidelines for instrumentation and control (I&C)
systems. ITER Organization also provides CODAC Core System (CCS)
which is a software tool kit and framework for design anddevelopment of I&C systems. CCS is developed based on EPICS. JADA
developed a prototype of the local control system of power supplies
and super-conducting magnet system for gyrotron operations
complying PCDH. PLCs (programmable logic controllers) were selected
to monitor and control auxiliary devices such as chillers and vacuum
systems. We validated that CCS has enough functionalities to develop
the local control system for gyrotron system. We also found issues ofCCS during the prototyping and resolved the issues discussing with theITER staff. We will report our experience and the issues in ourdevelopment.
Spring 2017 EPICS Collaboration Meeting @KURRI

CS-Studio Display Builder Update
K. Kasemir (ORNL/SNS)The display builder is a comprehensive update of the "BOY" panelbuilder that is now being used on the first SNS beam lines.
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Lessons learned implementing a Channel Accessgateway in Python with pyuv
D. J. Lauk (Paul Scherrer Institute)
At PSI we use multiple channel access gateways to separate thenetworks for office, machines, and beamlines. The gateways allow usto use EPICS across network boundaries, while also providing accesscontrol, and to some extent, reducing the load on both the network ingeneral and IOCs.
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New EVG and EVR features in Delay Compensation
capable timing hardware
J. Pietarinen (Micro-Research Finland Oy)
The latest firmware version of the Event Master integrates an EventSpring 2017 EPICS Collaboration Meeting @KURRI

Status of migration from Channel Archiver to Archiver
Appliance in J-PARC MR.
S. Yamada (KEK / J-PARC)
Archiver Appliance has been deployed for J-PARC Main Ring. We willdiscuss the status of migration from Channel Archiver, which has beenused since operation of J-PARC MR started in 2008.
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Introduction of Device and Driver Support for
Yokogawa F3RP71
S. Yamada (KEK / J-PARC)
Yokogawa F3RP71 is a linux-based controller for Yokogawa FA-M3
series of PLC. Device and drive support for F3RP71 was ported from its
previous model, F3RP61. We will discuss current status ofdevelopment and utilization in J-PARC MR accelerator control.