Progress in control and data acquisition for the ITER neutral beam test facility

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• 作者：Adriano Luchetta ; Gabriele M ; uchi ; Cesare Taliercio ; Anton Soppelsa ; Francesco Paolucci ; Filippo Sartori ; Paolo Barbato ; Roberto Capobianco ; Mauro Breda ; Federico Molon ; Modesto Moressa ; S ; ro Polato ; Paola Simionato ; Enrico Zampiva
• 关键词：Negative ion source ; Neutral beam injector ; Control ; Data acquisition
• 刊名：Fusion Engineering and Design
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：88
• 期：6-8
• 页码：492-496
• 全文大小：1045 K

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SPIDER, the ion source test bed in the ITER neutral beam test facility, is under construction and its operation is expected to start in 2014. Control and data acquisition for SPIDER are undergoing final design. SPIDER CODAS, as the control and data acquisition system is referred to, is requested to manage 25 plant units, to acquire 1000 analogue signals with sampling rates ranging from a few S/s to 10 MS/s, to acquire images with up to 100 frames per second, to operate with long pulses lasting up to 1 h, and to sustain 200 MB/s data throughput into the data archive with an annual data storage amount of up to 50 TB. SPIDER CODAS software architecture integrates three open-source software frameworks each addressing specific system requirements. Slow control exploits the synergy among EPICS and Siemens S7 programmable controllers. Data handling is by MDSplus a data-centric framework that is geared towards the collection and organization of scientific data. Diagnostics based on imaging drive the design of data throughput and archive size. Fast control is implemented by using MARTe, a data-driven, object-oriented, real-time environment. The paper will describe in detail the progress of the system hardware and software architecture and will show how the software frameworks interact to provide the functions requested by SPIDER CODAS. The paper will focus on how the performance requirements can be met with the described SPIDER CODAS architecture, describing the progress achieved by carrying out prototyping activities.