Smart Rack Monitor for the linac control system

摘要

The Smart Rack Monitor (SRM) is a low-cost, one-board, data acquisition module for the upgraded linac control system at Fermilab. The SRM is based on the Motorola MC68332 microcontroller in the Business Card Computer (BCC) configuration. It is connected to the linac local control station (to be referred to as local station) by an Arcnet LAN, and can be located close to the controlled hardware. Each local station is connected to several SRMs. The SRM has 64 A-D channels, sixteen D-A channels, and eight bytes of digital I/O on the mother board. Software Components Group's pSOS is the SRM's kernel. The SRM's software is cross-developed on VAX/VMS in C. The SRM does not have an attached console and is fully controlled by the local station.