ADEAlessandro Raimondo (ICE/MTA)

ICE workshop, 23th April 2009ICE workshop, 23th April 2009

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ADE

Rapid Application Development Environment

based on LabVIEW

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Why RADE?

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Users applications domains:

LabVIEW, MatLab, scripts, etc.

Beam Control JAVA

Beam Control JAVA

SCADA PVSS

SCADA PVSS

Test & Development Test & DevelopmentRADE

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Test & Development applications characteristicsTest & Development applications characteristics

Punctually used applications (i.e. expert diagnostics)

Rapidly evolving applications (i.e. machine development)

Stand-alone systems (i.e. test facilities)

Short development time applications (i.e. specific analysis)

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Fast programming Rapid learning curve Drag and drop GUI development Wide range of analysis libraries Light/independent environment

Test & Development applications requirements

LabVIEWprogramminglanguage

Integration with CERN infrastructures

our effort

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Other reasons for choosing LabVIEW

We have a deep experience (more then 10 years)

EPICS and Tango have made a LabVIEW interface to their environments, mainly for the same reason (rapid application development)

Commonly used for control in other research labs:

Officially supported at CERN

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What’s RADE?

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4. Development help Trainings (cta) RADE events (indico) Documentation (edms) Defined GUI Application templates Configuration files

The building blocks

3. Support Webpage (http://cern.ch/rade) Mailing list (rade-users@cern.ch) Direct user support

1. Installation Clear LabVIEW version policy NFS installation for Linux TS installation (lvtsco) Windows installation Application server (lvdssco) RADE servers (rade1 & abcopm01)

2. Control Integration Maintained interface libraries

- CMW - DIM- RBAC - PLC- ORACLE - JAPC- SDDS

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The framework

Training

Support

Defined GUIApplication templates

Configurationfiles

Documentation

ORACLESDDSJAPC

libs

LabVIEW

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Where RADE is used?

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RADE used for equipment tests

RADE app

3rd party driver

Middleware

Front-End

GUI

Equipment

Integration in the 3 layers control architecture

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Optical Interface Board Tester (TE/MPE)

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RADE used for specialist tools

RADE app

CMW wrapper

JAPC

FESA

Java GUI

Equipment

example of accelerators architecture

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SPS Power Converter View (TE/EPC)

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RADE used for GUIs

RADE app

JAPC

FESA

Java GUI

Equipment

example of accelerators architecture

LV2JAPC

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Bunch Shape Measurement (BE/OP)

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RADE used for offline applications

SDDS

RADE app

SDDS lib

JAPC

FESA

Java GUI

Equipment

example of accelerators architecture

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Post Mortem Analysis (EN/ICE)

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What’s going on?

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Dates: January 2008 (proposal, collection of libs) May 2008 (GUI, templates and configuration) August 2008 (training and documentation)

Some data…

Manpower: 2 FTE (temporary) for development 0.5 FTE (staff) for support

Users: 75 registered users

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20%

40%40%

Domains of use

Machine development

Test facilities

Expert tools

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Training side: LabVIEW Intermediate II (14-15 May)

RADE workshop (26th May)

LabVIEW Basic I (8-10 June)

Next steps…

UNICOS in LabVIEW (~September)

Development side: Jars in LabVIEW (~May) LabVIEW alarms to Laser (~June) LabVIEW to Logging DB (~June)

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Questions?

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