Rapid Application Development Environment

based on LabVIEW

Rapid Application Development Environment

based on LabVIEW

Adriaan Rijllart

CERN EN-ICE

Adriaan Rijllart

CERN EN-ICE

CS Workshop, GSI, February 26-27, 2009CS Workshop, GSI, February 26-27, 2009

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Why?Why?

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Identified controls applications domainsIdentified controls applications domains

LabVIEW, MatLab, scripts, etc.

Beam Control JAVA

Beam Control JAVA

SCADA PVSS

SCADA PVSS

Test & Development Test & DevelopmentRapid Application Development Environment(RADE)

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

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

RequirementsRequirements

LabVIEWprogramminglanguage

Integration with the control infrastructure ourcontribution

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Other reasons for choosing LabVIEW Other reasons for choosing LabVIEW

We have a deep experience (more then 10 years)

LabVIEW is the second most used programming language used for accelerator control, as shown in ICALEPCS2007 presentations

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

A world wide LabVIEW Accelerator User Group has been set up by ORNL during ICALEPCS2007

Commonly used in accelerators control in other labs:

CERN site license since many years

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…and for the accelerators at CERN?

…and for the accelerators at CERN?

LabVIEW is widely used (with custom libraries made by equipment groups)

LabVIEW is widely used (with custom libraries made by equipment groups)

Some examples …

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LabVIEW as equipment test tool

Java GUI

JAPCServer app

Equip. driverFESA

Equipment

LV app

3rd party driver

Integration after test

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Example in AB: Optical Interface Board Tester (CO)

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LabVIEW as specialist tool

Java GUI

JAPCServer app

Equip. driverFESA

Equipment

CMW wrapper

LV app

CMW

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Example in AB: SPS Power Converter View (PO)

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LabVIEW as GUI

Java GUI

JAPCServer app

Equip. driverFESA

Equipment

LV GUI

LV2JAPC

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Example in AB: Bunch Shape Measurement (OP)

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LabVIEW as independent application

Java GUI

JAPCServer app

Equip. driverFESA

Equipment

SDDS

LV app

SDDSlib

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Example in AB: Post Mortem Analysis (CO)

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Proposed frameworkProposed framework

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Covered domains

Machine development

Test facilities

Expert tools

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4. Development help Defined GUI Application templates Configuration files Training Documentation

Building blocks

3. Support Information Webpage Mailing list JIRA for issue tracking User support

1. Installation Clear LabVIEW version policy NFS installation for Linux Windows TS installation

2. Control Integration Maintained interface libraries

- CMW- RBAC- SDDS- DB- JAPC

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4. Development help Defined GUI Application templates Configuration files Training Documentation

Building blocks

3. Support Information Webpage Mailing list JIRA for issue tracking User support

1. Installation Clear LabVIEW version policy NFS installation for Linux Windows TS installation

2. Control Integration Maintained interface libraries

- CMW- RBAC- SDDS- DB- JAPC

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The RADE framework

Training

Support

LabVIEW

Defined GUIApplication templates

Configurationfiles

Documentation

Data Bases SDDSJAPC

libs

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RADE internal architecture

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RADE implementation example 1

C/C++ shared library

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RADE implementation example 2

Java interface

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ADE

Questions?Questions?