Paper Info
Title
A Distributed, Heterogeneous Control System for the ALICE TPC Electronics
Abstract
The ALICE detector is a dedicated heavy-ion detector currently built at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The detector consists of several sub-detectors each of them forming a highly complex device. The Detector Control System (DCS) covers the task of controlling,configuring and monitoring of the detector system. Since the experiment will be running in a radiation environment, fault tolerance, error correction and system stability in general are major concerns. A system consisting of independently running layers has been designed, the functionality layers are running on a large number of nodes and sub-nodes. An autonomous single-board computer, the DCS board, has been developed which allows one to run the operating system Linux in an embedded environment and to perform tasks related to the hardware devices. Further custom hardware devices have been developed covering specific tasks and serving as sub-nodes. These devices together with standard computers in higher control layers form a distributed control system. This article will focus on the concept and architecture of the DCS for the Front-end electronics of theTime-Projection Chamber (TPC) and present results and experiences from system integration tests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICPPW.2005.7
ICPP Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
custom hardware device,dcs board,detector system,dedicated heavy-ion detector,control system,alice detector,system integration test,alice tpc electronics,operating system linux,heterogeneous control system,embedded environment,system stability,hardware,system integration,stability,operating system,distributed control system,time projection chamber,detectors,control systems,fault tolerant,embedded systems,linux,error correction,large hadron collider,fault tolerance
Large Hadron Collider,Computer science,Error detection and correction,Fault tolerance,Electronics,Control system,Detector,Distributed control system,System integration,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-2016
0-7695-2381-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
22
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
j alme100.34
m richter200.68
m richter300.68
d rohrich400.34
k ullaland501.35
k c roe600.34
s bablok700.34
r keidel800.34
c kofler900.34
t krawutschke1000.34
t alt1100.68
t alt1200.68
d gottschalk1300.34
v kiworra1400.34
v lindenstruth15135.62
m r stockmeier1600.34
u frankenfeld1700.68
c engster1800.34
c gonzalez gutierrez1900.34
a junique2000.34
b mota2100.34
l musa2201.01