The Bates pulse stretcher ring control system design

The design of the control system for MIT's pulse stretcher ring is described. Heavy use is made of standard hardware and software elements. Particular emphasis is given to the design of a true distributed system, one that can expand both at the data acquisition/control and at the data processing end. For this purpose, a method is proposed to avoid increasing the traffic on the network when adding more computers. Issues related to real-time response and user interfaces are also treated. Measurements to data are summarized.<
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