Accelerator Controls: Front Ends

The documentation in this section contains topics relevant to the Front End Group.

Front-end Services

• FE Required Services
• 12 Steps for Alarm Support
• Documentation for the Fast Time Plot (FTP) Protocol.
• Multiple Alarms documentation.
• Download control and Monitoring documentation.

Front-end Group Product Manuals

• Online OODA documentation.
• MOOC-related
  • MOOC and MOOCAN documentation
  • MOOC Improvement Project
  • Basic MOOC information

• How to install vxWorks on a VME processor board
• VxWorks Error Reporting -- an updated logging facility for VxWorks.
• VxWorks System Time -- Synchronizing the system time using the TCP time service.
• CVS Resources
• Using fe.mk for front-end development.
• VxWorks on Nova
• SQL/TDS Database Download Instructions (non-AERBOOT/SLAM)
• rwlock -- readers writer locks for VxWorks
• VxWorks Kernel Versions Information
• VxWorks 5.x Manuals
• VxWorks 6.x Manuals

Presentation Slides

• Using XMLRPCs on VxWorks (PDF)

Hardware Documents

• Generating a Bus Backplane Interrupt from the 162 board.
• Notes on Power PC VxWorks VME memory accesses.
• The UCD Manual Table of Contents.
• How to make data accessible to ACNET from a VxWorks Front End.
• MVME-2400 Programmer's Reference Guide [pdf]
• PowerPC 750 User's Manual [pdf]

Front-end Systems

• The Linac and IRM Front-ends.
• MOOC Vacuum Documentation
• SWIC and Multiwire front-end information
• NML OPC
• OPCUA SIMATIC.NET config
• IOTA BiRa Power Suppliers
  emcor_2517_user_manual.pdf
  pcrc_users_manual_tdk_genesys.pdf
• ChannelFinder Setup on vclx4
• MOOC Vacuum front-end/controller information
• QXR docs
• Some Frig documents
• TWTPM Documents
• 400 MeV Line BPMs
• MDAT8X Documentation
• Debuncher BPM documentation
• The CAMAC Front-Ends

  Beams Division CAMAC

  • CAMAC Module Documentation... more here... and here.
  • Current status Porting Front-End Software (drivers & tasks)
  • The current fix list for the project.
  • Table of MADCs in Service

  Research Division CAMAC

  • Beamline FE Documentation
• Generic Documentation
• ACNET Node Request

Here are useful links that were created by other Beams Division members:

• The Departmental Vacation Calendar.
• The latest Error Reports.
• A www.alltheweb.com Search of *.fnal.gov.

Here are links currently in use by members of our group: