Beamlines Control Systems

What is it?

A beamline control system is a set of devices that manages, commands, directs or regulates the behavior of a beamline. It consists in a specific implementation and deployment of SARDANA for a particular beamline and experiment, i.e. the configuration of the device pool, macroserver, and macros.

A generic and versatile user interface is installed to provide common features like:

• Logging
• Generic macro execution and macro history
• Online Plotting of 1D data and trends of 0D data
• Snapshotting of the control system variables
• On-line trends of 1D data
• On-line plotting of 0D with arbitrary X-Y models
• Off-line plotting of historic data, including simple operations on data.
• Data saving/retrieving/tagging.
  

In addition, each experiment comprises a specific set of instrumentation devices, with its own particular control system and database, and for which dedicated applications and user interfaces are developed.