The timing system of the proton accelerator of the PEFP requires synchronization between the accelerator and the multipurpose beam lines. The system is based on an event distribution system that broadcasts the timing information globally to all the equipment. Fast I/O hardware of the timing system is to distribute appropriate timing signals to accelerator systems, including the Injector, RFQ, D...

The Colorado State University (CSU) Accelerator Facility will include a 6-MeV L-Band electron linear accelerator (linac) with a free-electron laser (FEL) system capable of producing Terahertz (THz) radiation, a laser laboratory, a microwave test stand, and a magnetic test stand. The photocathode drive linac will be used in conjunction with a hybrid undulator capable of producing THz radiation. ...

The use of modeling programs for accelerator beamline control and commissioning is becoming an accepted practice. For control applications, the goal in using these programs is to correct deviations in the beam measurements or to change the machine parameters. Since these programs are used for operation of the machine, they are a part of the on-line control system. For commissioning, the goal is...

The SLC control system is the dynamic result of a number of forces. The most obvious force is the functional requirements of the SLC itself, but other forces are history, budget, people, available technology, etc. The plan of this paper is to describe the critical functional requirements of the SLC which caused significant development of the control system. I have tried to focus on functional r...

Data acquisition systems for the accelerator complex at SRRC are composed of various hardware and software components. Beam signals are processed by related processing electronics, and connect to control system by various type of interfaces in data acquisition front-ends. These front-ends include VME crates, personal computers and instrument bus adapters. Fast Ethernet connected all elements to...

The KEK Accelerator test facility (ATF) [1] extraction line laser-wire system has been upgraded last year allowing the measurement of micron scale transverse size electron beams. The most recent measurements using the upgraded system are presented. The ATF-II extraction line design [2] call for the major upgrade of the existing laser-wire system. We report on the hardware upgrades, including th...

This paper reports on MATLAB Channel Access (MCA) Toolbox – MATLAB [1] interface to EPICS Channel Access (CA) client library. We are developing the toolbox for SPEAR3 accelerator controls, but it is of general use for accelerator and experimental physics applications programming. It is packaged as a MATLAB toolbox to allow easy development of complex CA client applications entirely in MATLAB. T...

This paper describes an X-Band RF system for the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator.[1] The RF system consists of a 90 MeV injector and a 540 MeV linac. The main components of the injector are two low-Q singlecavity prebunchers and two 0.9-m-long detuned accelerator sections. The linac system consists of six 1.8-mlong detuned and damped detuned accelerator sections powered in pairs. The rf p...