Evolution Based on MicroTCA and MRF Timing System

Francoise Gougnaud (1) , Patrick Bargueden (1) , Quentin Bertrand (1) , Jean Francois Denis (1) , Guillaume Ferrand (1) , Alexis Gaget (1) , Francis Gohier (1) , Patrice Guiho (1) , Ilanit Hoffman Moran , Tom Joannem (1) , Ange Lotode (1) , Yves Lussignol (1) , Yannick Mariette (1) , Victor Nadot (1) , Eyal Reinfeld , Ilan Shmuely , Nicolas Solenne (1)

1 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers

For many years our Institute CEA IRFU has had a sound experience in VME and EPICS. For the accelerator projects SPIRAL2 at Ganil in Normandy and IFMIF/LIPAc at JAEA/Rokkasho (Japan) the EPICS control systems were based on VME. For 5 years our Institute has been involved in several in-kind collaboration contracts with ESS. For the first contracts (ESS test stands, Source and LEBT controls) ESS recommended us to use VME based solutions on IOxOS boards. Our close collaboration with ESS, their support and the requirements for new projects have led us to develop a standardized hardware and software platform called IRFU EPICS Environment based on microTCA.4 and MRF timing system. This paper describes the advantages of the combination of these recent technologies and the local control system architectures in progress for the SARAF project.

Mots clés: controls; EPICS; timing; MEBT; PLC

Domaines: Physique des accélérateurs [physics.acc-ph]

Francoise Gougnaud, Patrick Bargueden, Quentin Bertrand, Jean Francois Denis, Guillaume Ferrand, et al.. Evolution Based on MicroTCA and MRF Timing System. 17th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, Oct 2019, New York, United States. pp.MOPHA052, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA052⟩. ⟨hal-03011017⟩