Speaker
Antonio Carpeno
(Telematics and Electronics Department)
Description
The iRIO-3DLab platform has been devised to enhance the learning process and reduce the development time for engineers in charge of designing intelligent DAQ systems based on PXIe technology and distributed control systems such as EPICS. iRIO-3DLab consists of an Opensim-based virtual world that aims to promote the understanding of how such a kind of DAQ system works, and how the EPICS IOC should be configured according to the configuration and monitoring demanded by diagnostic requirements. This contribution describes how to use iRIO-3DLab to implement a Neutron-Diagnostic use case using a PXIe platform, which includes: setting up the hardware remotely and configuring the EPICS-IOC and the interface with the application using CSS.
The PXIe platform includes: PICMG 1.3 compliant computer, PXIe chassis, PXI synchronization module using IEEE 1588 standard , PXIe FlexRIO FPGA-based device, and adapter module with four 14-bit, 250 MS/s analog inputs.
iRIO-3DLab allows users to connect the virtual replicas of this equipment to the cubicle and select the application to be implemented in the FPGA. The FPGA deals with pulse, campbelling and current mode measurements of the acquired signals. When the user selects the application there is an associated EPICS IOC implementing the data gathering. For each action performed by the user a message is sent to the real system through the Internet, so the real IOC matches this virtual configuration. The virtual world allows the user, firstly to set the waveform generator used to generate predefined signal patterns in order to check the correct measurement, and secondly to interface with the OPI panel to assess the results obtained. Finally, the contribution describes the correlation of the actions executed by the user and the internal command and data flow of the hardware and software platform to understand all the technologies involved in this complex DAQ setups.
Co-authors
Antonio Carpeno
(Telematics and Electronics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Eduardo Barrera
(Telematics and Electronics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Eduardo Mayoral
(Telematics and Electronics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Guillermo de Arcas
(Telematics and Electronics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Mariano Ruiz
(Telematics and Electronics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Sergio Esquembri
(Telematics and Electronics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Sergio Lopez
(Telematics and Electronics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
