Upgrade of Linac Control System with New Vme Controllers at Spring-8

TL;DR

This paper describes the successful integration of an injector linac control system into the SPring-8 standard system, emphasizing hardware upgrades and software adaptation to Solaris 7 for seamless operation.

Contribution

It presents a novel integration approach with minimal hardware modifications, upgrading VME controllers and software to unify control of the accelerator complex.

Findings

Unified control system achieved for SPring-8 complex

VME controllers upgraded to enhance performance

Real-time operation enabled with Solaris 7 OS

Abstract

We integrated an injector linac control system to the SPring-8 standard system on September 2000. As a result of this integration, the SPring-8 accelerator complex was controlled by one unified system. Because the linac was continuously running as the electron beam injector not only for the SPring-8 storage ring but also for New SUBARU, we had to minimize the hardware modification to reduce the time for the development and testing of the new control system. The integration method was almost the same as that of the integration of the booster synchrotron. We report here on the integration of the linac control system with emphasis on the upgrade of the VMEbus controllers and software involving the operating system Solaris 7 as the real-time OS.