1. Development of built-in diagnostics in the RADE framework (EN2746)
High-Radiation to Materials (HiRadMat) Data Acquisition System
Sixto Alcoba Banqueri

2. CONTENT Development of built-in diagnostics in the RADE framework
RADE and MTA Service in EN-STI-ECE
RADE Logger
NI Real Time
DHCP Tests on NI RT Targets
Flexible Modular Data Acquisition System in LabVIEW
High-Radiation to Materials DAQ application (HiRadMat)
TDE-VIB DAQ application
LabVIEW Support

3. MTA & RADE EN-STI-ECE-MTA
Turnkey solutions for Measurement and Test systems and data analysis applications based on LabVIEW
CERN-wide LabVIEW and National Instruments hardware support
Framework for Rapid Application Development (RADE)
MTA & RADE
I’m working on Engineering department Sources and Target interactions group, Equipment Control and Electronics section and Measurement and Tests Analysis Service Team.
The section I’m in is in charge of LabVIEW support for all CERN and we provide solutions for several applications in a vast variety of projects.
RADE is a Framework developed in this section that allows the LabVIEW developer access several services at CERN for the control of the devices placed on the accelerators.

4. RADE-LOGGER Control of the application in Near Real- Time
Data visualization and statistics
Openstack Cloud Infrastructure at CERN
RADE-LOGGER
Inside this scope of RADE framework, I have been working and taking over the maintenance of the RADE logger.
For the developer is important to have the control of their applications and know in every moment what has happened with their applications. Sometimes reaction time is something critical for the user and noticing errors or warning messages from their application at the right time can make a huge difference in the development of their systems.
RADE Logger allows the user to send messages from their running applications to a server and have an easy data visualization and statistics from a web interface. In this way we get rid of looking for messages in the huge log files and We have all the information centralized and filtered in real-time.
I have developed this architecture in the cloud infraestruture at CERN, it can collects messages from all LabVIEW developers users at CERN in both the General Purpose Network and Technical Network.

5. DHCP on NI RT Tests Change from Fixed IP to DHCP
How cRIOs and PXIs behaves
Test how DHCP works on PXIs and cRIOs .
DHCP on NI RT Tests
After the RADE Logger project I have moved to National Instruments hardware related projects.
Here I show you an example were the RADE Logger was really useful.
In June IT announced they were going to change all the devices in General purpose network from fixed IP to Dynamic IP.
Due to this redistribution of the Network architecture at CERN we had to make sure what was the best network configuration for National Instruments Devices, PXIs and cRIOs, because this change could have affected several projects and tests stands from all CERN LabVIEW community.
We did several hardware configuration tests in order to see how the DHCP server and the hardware behaves.
Here I have an example of one test we did sending messages to the RADE logger, and the visualization we get to know the IP changes made by the server on a CRIO during the test.

6. Modular Data Acquisition System in LabVIEW
80% of the DAQ systems have the same architecture or quite similar.
Do something modular and flexible to cover many of these Real Time DAQ systems
Object Oriented Programming in LabVIEW
The main goal of my project now is to create a DAQ library that will allow the user to easily create a Data Acquisition System in LabVIEW easy and fast and taking care of the CPU and Memory consumption.
Almost every DAQ system has an architecture quite similar but it has to cover a huge number o application so MODULARITY and FLEXIBILITY are essential for this project, and this can only be achieved with Object Oriented Design in LabVIEW.

7. HiRadMat DAQ Study the impact of intense pulsed beam on materials:
Thermal management;
Radiation Damage to materials;
Thermal shock – beam induces pressure waves.
RT DAQ projects in this experiment
DAQ with a Vibrometer
DAQ with strain gauges
Trigger Acquisition:
48 4MHz
Continuous Acquisition:
10 100Hz
10 temperature 100 Hz
HiRadMat is a facility designed, to study the impact of intense pulsed beam on materials to study if they can be used in Collimators.
Thermal management;
Radiation Damage to materials;
Thermal shock – beam induces pressure waves.
Here I have placed 2 gifs with the simulation and the real video of the material sample melting when the beam pass through it.
We are working on two projects in this experiment,
in one of them we are recording the signal created with a non-tactile vibrometer, a fast DAQ System at 4 MHz acquire the vibration in the material.
The other system is using strain gauges.
Trigger Acquisition:
48 4MHz
Continuous Acquisition, will start after the trigger acquisition
10 100Hz
10 temperature 100 Hz
For this project we want to use the DAQ modules I have explained before, besides with the possibility of using several DAQs launched in parallel for every kind of acquisition.

8. TDE-VIB DAQ DAQ software for LHC TDE vibration monitoring.
Point 6 LHC dump
Interferometer DAQ
6 channels from FPGA
235kHz
Continuous acquisition at 1 Hz
Microphone DAQ
204 kHz
Triggered by the interferometer.
Trigger Acquisition
Pretrigger: 1 s
Posttrigger: 30 s
This is another project we are working on now were modules from the modular DAQ system are being used.
For this project a DAQ system has been done in LHC to register the vibrations caused by beam impact in point 6 of LHC.
There are Nitrogen leaks that seems to be caused by beam impact.
An interferometer has been placed that will trigger a microphone acquisition every time the beam pass by.
For the acquisition we are using PXIe-4496 card from national instruments and special optical fiber microphone has been placed close to LHC pipes.
We have already registered some data from the microphone, we can reproduce offline. This raw data from the microphone will be analysed and filtered in the future.

9. LabVIEW Support labview.support@cern.ch
As I have already mentioned, my section is in charge of LabVIEW support for all CERN.
Here are the Support Cases assigned to me during my 3 weeks of support.
If you use LabVIEW and you have any problem we can help, contact by .

10. THANK YOU