EAR day April 21st, 2004

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BI Hardware Renovation(in the Experimental
Areas of the SPS)

• Main Activities of AB/BDI/EA
• EA Renovation Program
• Old Function-Oriented Hardware
• New Equipment-Oriented Hardware
• Industrial Control
• Improvements for exploitation
• East Area, AD, Isolde,
• Conclusion

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Main Activities of AB/BDI/EA (in the
Experimental Areas of the SPS)

• Installation of BDI
• Commissioning
• Modification Notes
• Detector Development
• EA Renovation Program
• Development of New Hardware
• Industrial Control
• Exploitation and Piquet Service

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Renovation Background (1)

• Most of the beam instrumentation in the
  Experimental Areas of the SPS was developed 25
  years ago.
• The electronics was implemented in functional
  building blocks that made it easy to tryout new
  features.
• Some twenty barracks regroups the hardware of 200
  detectors and 400 motor controls.
• Many installations in the Experimental Areas are
  not permanent but are changing every year.
• Due to lack of money and manpower, only a small
  fraction of the electronics have been upgraded
  during the LEP era.

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Renovation Background (2)

• The old function-oriented design requires a high
  level of specialist knowledge, both for
  installation and for trouble-shooting.
• Many electronic modules have now become obsolete.
• Diagnostic tools are also getting obsolete due to
  change of technologies.
• Similar detectors are often implemented in
  different ways depending on the year of
  installation.
• Time needed for maintenance goes up !
• Available manpower goes down !

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EA Renovation Program (1)

• The Maintenance goes up, Manpower goes down
  problem had to be dealt with.
• The long-term maintenance load had to be eased.
• Budget for an instrumentation hardware renovation
  was granted.
• But a consolidation of the instrumentation
  hardware alone was not enough to ease
  maintenance.
• Other CERN services had to be involved as well.
• EA Renovation Program Committee born in 2000.

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EA Renovation Program (2)
EA Renovation

• The EA Renovation Program Committee coordinates
• Instrumentation developments with AB/BDI
• Standardization of detector mechanics with ATB/EA
• New control structure with CESAR in AB/CO
• New installation database within AB/CO
• Timing upgrade with AB/CO
• Ethernet upgrade within SL/CO (now IT)
• Standardization of vacuum control with AT/VAC
• Upgrade of junction-crates with AB/PO
• Interlock and access within TS/MA
• Barrack surveillance within TS/CO

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The Magic Mystery Tour
EA Renovation

• Have a look inside our barracks !

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FunctionOrientedHardware
History
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Equipment-Oriented Hardware

• Racks arranged by detector family.
• CEDARs are function-oriented hardware
• Equipment-Oriented Developments in VME
• Scintillators
• Delay Wire Chambers and Spectrometers
• FISCs and Caloriemeters
• Cerenkov detectors,
• Updated local electronics
• MWPC
• DWC

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New Family of VME Modules(Equipment-oriented
design)
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Industrial Control (1)

• Siemens Industrial PLCs for Vacuum Control
• First barrack with 15 pumps now operational
• Step7
• Temporary Siemens control tool for 2004
• PVSS under AT/VAC responsibility from 2005
• Schneider PLCs for Standard Input/Output

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Industrial Control (2)

• Siemens Industrial PLCs for Vacuum Control
• Schneider PLCs for Standard Input/Output
• In/Out Motors, Status of Power Supplies and
  temperature measurement
• Two barracks are equipped so far, PL7 tested
• Temporary control with modified DM code!
• Creation of future control standard with AB/CO
• FESA development starting from August 2004

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Industrial Control (3)

• Siemens Industrial PLCs for Vacuum Control
• Schneider PLCs for Standard Input/Output
• Fase out old CAMAC and PCAs
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Improvements for Exploitation

• Easier maintenance of hardware
• Thanks to more simple implementation
• New Diagnostic tools with CESAR
• To replace the Nodal Piquet Tree
• New installation database
• To document an equipment chain
• Naming convention
• To ease exchange of information

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East Area, AD, ISOLDE, (have a look in the
crystal ball)

• Similar Instrumentation
• No remote control
• New detector needs
• Renovation Program ?

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• Evolution of resources in AB/BDI/EA (estimate)

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Conclusion

• The SPS EA consolidation progress as planned.
• Still a lot of installation work ahead.
• Hardware renovation expected complete in 2005.
• Diagnostic tools to be developed (within CESAR?).
• Piquet service ended with the 2003 run.
• Easier maintenance as from 2006.
• East Area, AD, Isolde New Renovation Program?

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Have a look at the FISC
(Old function-oriented hardware)

• DISCRIMINATOR NIM
• QUAD COINCIDENCE NIM
• PROGRAMABLE FAN OUT CAMAC
• LED DRIVER NIM
• DELAY DRIVER CAMAC
• QUAD DELAY 19 chassis
• ADC MODULE CAMAC
• RELAY MULTIPLEXER 19 chassis
• DAC MODULE CAMAC
• HIGH VOLTAGE SUPPLY CIM
• POSITION CONTROLLER EUROPE
• SCALER CAMAC
• TWELVE DIFFERENT MODULES !