Kundan Singh, Deepak K. Munda, Mamta Jain, M.Archunan, P. Barua & B.P.

Ajith Kumar IUAC, New Delhi, India.

GENERAL PURPOSE CRATE FOR CONTROL

APPLICATIONS
Mamta Jain, Kundan Singh, Deepak K. Munda, M.Archunan, P. Barua & B.P. Ajith Kumar
IUAC, New Delhi, India.

A General Purpose Crate (GPC) capable of handling Five types of modules have been developed in house to
digital and analog Inputs/Outputs signals has been fulfil the control system requirements at IUAC using GPC
developed for accelerator control system applications. similar to CAMAC based control system viz.
The system includes back-plane bus with single board • 16 channels 12-bit Scanning ADCs
computer PC104 and Ethernet. The modules can be • 16 channels Digital-to-Analog converters
plugged into the back plane bus using standard euro • Digital control and readout
connectors, which provides highly reliable and dust free • Power supply control module
contacts. At a time maximum eight modules can be • X-Y beam scanner power supply control modules
inserted into the crate. The total power consumption is
approximately 50W. The crates are connected over the It is an embedded PC based distributed control system
local area network and communicate over TCP/IP based on Linux platform and it runs in a client server mode.
The server part of the program runs on the computer
protocol.
attached to the CAMAC or GPC crates.

Hardware & Software

Back plane Block diagram

GPC control system (pcli)

General purpose crate

Output Register Input Register

Scanner power supply controller

3 GPC Crate Setup

12-bit 16-channel scanning ADC

X/Y beam scanner control
Advantage
This indigenously developed crate has Application
following salient features This crate can be used for all kinds of control
• Low power consumption systems like upcoming new Low Energy Ion
• Light weight Beam Facility (LEIBF) at IUAC
• Easy maintenance
• Expandable REFERENCES
[1] B.P. Ajith Kumar, E.T. Subramaniam & Kundan Singh,
Status 12-bit 16-channel DAC “Distributed control system for NSC tandem-LINAC”, Indian Journal
This GPC based 3 crate setup has been of Pure & Applied Physics, Vol.39, Jan-Feb 2001, pp 1-3.
tested for 3 weeks for stability and [2] B.P. Ajith Kumar, Kundan Singh & C.P.Safvan, “General
reliability. Purpose Controller with Embedded PC”, InPAC 2005.