THE EVOLUTION AND STATUS OF THE DAΦNE CONTROL SYSTEM
G. Di Pirro, G. Mazzitelli, C. Milardi · 2000
During the DAΦNE commissioning and run operations the Control System has been continuously evolving in order to fulfill the user requirements and the needs of a complete accelerator management. The original structure of distributed CPUs relaying on a central shared memory proved to be scalable and suitable for adding functionality "on the fly". Also the choice of a commercial software environment for all the control tasks demonstrated to be valid and allowed redesigning the user level with no worries for porting all the developed software. Console applications have been moved from personal computers to Force ® VME embedded processors and user interfaces now runs on a Sun ® multiprocessor server connected to many lightweight SunRay ® terminals. A comprehensive Control System evolution history is reported.