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EPICS Support for Group3 Control System . Carl Lionberger Group3 ™ optical-fiber-connected I/O Software and operational experience. Group3 control system. VME-Based fiber-optic loop controller 2 loops/VME bd, 8 bds/VME crate SDLC 1.152 Mbaud on loop 16 DI’s (Device Interface) / loop - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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8 May 2001 EPICS Group3 Carl Lionberger 1
EPICS Support for Group3 Control System
Carl Lionberger
Group3™ optical-fiber-connected I/OSoftware and operational experience
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Group3 control system• VME-Based fiber-optic loop controller
– 2 loops/VME bd, 8 bds/VME crate– SDLC 1.152 Mbaud on loop
• 16 DI’s (Device Interface) / loop– CNA – 2 AI, 1 AO, 8BI, 8BO
• Has PID (not supported)– CN3 – CPU + 3 I/O boards
• digital I/O, analog I/O, motor control• Serial, gpib (not supported)
– Diagnostic Port on each DI
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Optical Fiber Items
• HP HFBR Versatile Link– 40 meters max/link plastic, 3 km max/link glass
• Plastic easy to terminate in-house• Glass & SMA connectors by special order
– Have had bad experience with passive cable extenders (barrel connectors, feed-throughs)
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Group3 controls in a rack
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Group3 EPICS support• CNA combination module
– Ai, ao, bi, bo, mbbi, mbbiD, mbbo, mbboD• B digital module
– bi, bo, mbbi, mbbiD, mbbo, mbboD• C 8 16-bit analog input – ai• D 8 12-bit analog output – ao• E 4-channel DC motor controller
– Mbbo for mode, ao for speed, accel• G 4-channel stepper – steppermotor record• H 4-channel encoder – ai, steppermotor record• F dual-serial, diagnostic port – vxWorks tty driver• Loop Controller (status) – ai, mbbi, mbbiD
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CNA Module
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Power Supply Control with CNA
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Directly connected CNAs
• 2 CNA’s connected directly to each other by two fiber cables
• Output of each one reflects corresponding inputs of other
• Nice for remote power switches and resets• No Software!
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Cache Polling Loop
~30Hz
DI1
DI2
DI3
Loop Controller
input PV
Output PV
Device Support
drvG3
Sequence-number concurrency control
Per-DI semaphore protected
Interrupt IO Scan Queue
vxWorks tty driver
Group3 EPICS support
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Group3 Diagnostic Port
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Dbior report level 3Scanner has run 13221688 times.
Loop Controller 12 in use at 0xffffc000 with status 0x0
Extended error: 0x1 error count: 3477 DI online bits: 0x7f
IO Buffer memory 34 percent used; 14 of 60 iodefs used.
Receive count 288247461 and Send count 292452437
Error vector 0x1000000 DI vector 0x0 IO vector 0x0 SDLC 0x84
Error vector bits:
Bad SDLC Packet
Active nodes:
IODef 0 DI 0 Board 0 Type 6 IO Address 0xcf80 updates/sec 0 OK
vxWorks tty name: LEBT:Extr receive index 0
IODef 8 DI 3 Board 1 Type 101 IO Address 0xcc48 updates/sec 1 OK
Ints/sec: 1 0 0
IODef 9 DI 6 Board 1 Type 3 IO Address 0xcc24 updates/sec 28 OK
Ints/sec: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Dbior report level 4IODef 3 DI 3 Board 0 Type 6 IO Address 0xce00 updates/sec 0 OK
vxWorks tty name: LEBT:Chop_P receive index 0
r mses r tries data buffer
136003 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 75 66 66 65 72 20 6f 76 65 72 66 6c 6f 77 0d
0a 20 6f 76 65 72 66 6c 6f 77 0d 0a 20 20
IODef at 0xffffc070 DI 0x3 Bd 0x0 Type 0x6 offset 0xe00
IODef 9 DI 6 Board 1 Type 3 IO Address 0xcc24 updates/sec 20 OK
Ints/sec: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
r mses r tries data buffer
265969 0 01 00 03 00 02 00 02 00 02 00 01 00 03 00 03 00
IODef at 0xffffc0d0 DI 0x6 Bd 0x1 Type 0x3 offset 0xc24
IODef 10 DI 0 Board 1 Type 101 IO Address 0xcbdc updates/sec 7 OK
Ints/sec: 5 2 0
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Sparks Can Still Get In• Power (24V AC/DC)
– Isolation transformer types– Routing of 110 V
• Signals– RC networks in CN3, CNA connector blocks– Grounding and shielding
• VME crates – Overall grounding and power quality
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General Problems• No readback of outputs through normal channels.
– Could startup with diagnostic ports only to obtain initial readback value for glitchless performance.
• Rewrite driver
• CN3 board addressing flaw– Don’t use multiple boards of same type in same CN3!– Firmware fix in the works?
• Addresses not reconfigurable on the fly• Diagnostic port-level automatic configuration
support inadequate
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Conclusions
• Easy to set up and use• Runs reliably under reasonable conditions• Optical fiber communication link does not
solve all electrical isolation problems• There are still some possible driver level
issues
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