Virtual instrumentation interface for SRRC control system

Abstract

Virtual instrumentation system has been developed for the control system of SRRC. Almost of the measurement instruments are to provide IEEE-488 interface, they are distributed around the accelerator facilities, the virtual instrumentation system connects these instruments by local area network, Ethernet, to GPIB adapter. The man-machine interface developed by using LabVIEW, which is running at Sun's workstation. The workstation to be played as an instrument server, the operator can access remote instruments simply by point and click operation. The information provided by instruments can be analyzed and extracted the desire machine parameters at workstation. The main control system can access these parameters by standard network protocol. The major goals of the virtual instrumentation interface are to provide the automatic measurement of the machine parameters and to minimize the interlude of the machine physicists and operators. Machine parameters, such as tune, beam spectrum, filling pattern, bunch length, can be online displayed at main control panel or archived for various applications.