Cosylab Acceleration division and HW integration support

1. Cosylab Acceleration division and HW integration support Joze Dedic joze.dedic@cosylab.com CERN timing workshop, Februar 2008

2. Cosylab - Accelerator division elevator pitch Cosylab is the world leader in the field of control systems for particle accelerators, synchrotron radiation beamlines and radio telescopes. We provide professional solutions from system engineering and project management over custom development to complete turnkey control systems. We serve over 30 major accelerator facilities in Europe, the USA, Japan and Australia and their main suppliers. Cosylab 2007

3. Cosylab’s timing workshop role • collaboration with GSI • on the FAIR CS study • evaluation of CERN GMT renovated solution / feasibility study • learn about timing  • provide our integration knowledge to anybody interested • We let people that are good at low-level development do their job. • Our primary interest is to integrate already-available components. We do the “boring” task of gathering application requirements, interfacing, enclosing in cases, customizing to specific application, documenting, debugging, support commissioning, providing SW support, project management… Do what you do best and let us to the rest  Cosylab 2007

4. Cosylab general facts • 1996 first group was formed (KGB) / 2001 company startup • 55 full-time people / 50 part-time (PhD, MSc, BSc, computer science, physicists, electrical engineering) • Accelerator division (core) • specialized in accelerator and beam line control systems • GIS division • government cadastre support for managing subventions • Slovenian “GMAPS”  • Financial division • broker SW • Magnetic division • undulator production • Incubator • American cup sailboats • diesel glow plugs patents Cosylab 2007

5. And now the HW microIOC family of products Nicely designed aluminum case with electronics inside - hardware + Application and control system support - software + Fine-tuned to customer’sreal needs - domain expertise = solution Perfect for engineers to save time and for labs to save resources. …already at 27 accelerator facilities all around the world. Cosylab 2007

6. microIOC • plug & play integration of devices into control system; software is part of the package • standardized solution based on experience and expertise in accelerators • high reliability; no moving parts, reliable building blocks, each unit tested • flexible installation and access and support… • preinstalled Linux or RTEMS OS, drivers, application code, GUI, EPICS, TANGO, ACS • development environment, standard Debian Linux • web based configuration, monitoring and control • expertise in accelerator applications Cosylab 2007

7. Product line Cosylab 2007

8. Our timing experiences • Xilinx Virtex-II pro (Memec development kit) • timing interface “motherboard” • PECL, TTL (to LVDS) • 500 MHz low-jitter local oscillator • external clk (~150 – 550MHz) • low-speed (62.5 MHz) and high-speed (~500MHz) • UART configurable (microIOC ) • CS support (GUI, EPICS…) • programmable delay generator • SW, external triggering • 50 ps jitter • to be continued  Cosylab 2007

9. Knowledge • integration (CS and HW side) • PCB design (interfacing) • high frequency PCB and FPGA (550 MHz) • high voltage (10 kV) • low current (100 pA) Cosylab 2007

10. …from the detector to the director… Thank you for your attention! Cosylab 2007