iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Science (LABS) was established in the 1980s to support the nuclear physics research community and to produce radioisotopes for nuclear medicine applications. This paper outlines the development of the iThemba LABS accelerator control system from mini-computers running RTE and CAMAC instrumentation, through to a system based on a LAN of PCs running...
A brief discussion of the Oxfordshire series of EPICS Meetings.
The talk will give an overview of the Documentathon: what was achieved and what are the plans moving forward.
In a collaborational effort (ITER/HZB-BESSY/ESS/PSI), a Device Support for the OPC UA industrial SCADA protocol is under development. Goals, status and roadmap will be presented.
Recent developments and future plans for EPICS Base from the EPICS Core Developer's Group.
The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source accelerators have been controlled using Vsystem running on OpenVMS / Itaniums, while beamlines and instruments are controlled using EPICS. We outline the work in migrating accelerator controls to EPICS using the pvAccess protocol with a mixture of conventional EPICS IOCs and custom Python-based IOCs primarily deployed in containers on Linux servers. The...
The SIRIUS synchrotron light source uses soft IOCs that extensively communicate with other IOCs and soft IOCs, in the accelerator itself and at the beamlines, to perform high level computations or orchestrations. Most of these soft IOCs are implemented in Python using the PCASpy library and, in some specific cases, the EPICS Sequencer module was also employed. This presentation not only aims...
The Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has been in operation for over 20 years now. It originally started with a custom control system using custom hardware control boards. After adding a second independent control system to be able to handle PLCs, the arrival of new diagnostics for the accelerator with built-in EPICS support triggered the...
The Diamond-II upgrade Project has been awarded funding from the UK Government. This talk will present the project and the impact on the control systems.
The open source EtherCAT Motion Control (ECMC) framework originally developed at the European Spallation Source is a real-time Ethernet-based fieldbus system for distributed and synchronized systems. ECMC is built on top of the open source Etherlab master to communicate with and control EtherCAT devices, and is available as an EPICS module. The ECMC framework together with commercially...
We describe a program at SLAC to truly understand accelerator cyber vulnerabilities as the exist at SLAC and similar facilities, improve accelerator cyber security generally, engage the U.S. Department of Energy in collaboration and funding and provide the concomitant upgrades to EPICS base for the accelerator community.
This talk describes plans to add a Transport Security Layer (TLS) to EPICS.
