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The ALICE Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is read out by 4356 Front-End Cards serving roughly 560000 channels. Each channel has to be congured and monitored individually. As one part of the overall controlling of the detector this task is covered by the Detector Control System (DCS). Since fault tolerance, error correction and system stability in general are major concerns, a system consisting of independently running layers has been designed. The functionality layers are running on a ...The ALICE Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is read out by 4356 Front-End Cards serving roughly 560000 channels. Each channel has to be congured and monitored individually. As one part of the overall controlling of the detector this task is covered by the Detector Control System (DCS). Since fault tolerance, error correction and system stability in general are major concerns, a system consisting of independently running layers has been designed. The functionality layers are running on a large number of nodes and sub-nodes. The low-level node controlling the Front-End Electronics is an embedded computer system, the DCS board, which provides the opportunity to run a light-weight Linux system on the card. The board interfaces to the front-end electronics via a dedicated hardware interface and connects to the higher DCS-layers via the DIM communication framework over Ethernet. This article presents the structure of the communication software and the application of the DCS board.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Physik