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AU Gil, A
   Blanco, A
   Castro, E
   Diaz, J
   Garzon, JA
   Gonzalez-Diaz, D
   Fouedjio, L
   Kolb, BW
   Palka, M
   Traxler, M
   Trebacz, R
   Zumbruch, P
TI The slow control system of the HADES RPC wall
SO Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A
JI Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A
PY 2012
BP S118-S120
VL 661
DI 10.1016/j.nima.2010.08.033
LA English
DE RPC; Resistive plate chambers; Slow control system; EPICS; 1-wire
AB The control and monitoring system for the new HADES RPC time of flight wall installed at GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany), is described. The slow control system controls/monitors about 6000 variables from different physical devices via a distributed architecture, which uses intensively the 1-wire (R) bus. The software implementation is based on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) software tool kit providing low cost, reliability and adaptability without requiring large hardware resources. The control and monitoring system attends five different subsystems: front-end electronics, low voltage, high voltage, gases, and detector. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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