V. Mertens et al., A SIMPLE GENERIC SOFTWARE TOOL KIT FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTROLS APPLICATIONS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 352(1-2), 1994, pp. 427-429
A set of services has been developed forming the core of a simple gene
ric tool kit for distributed controls applications. The system is base
d on the Entity-Relationship model and the ADAMO data management syste
m. It allows data sharing and synchronization between various processe
s acquiring data, running control and supervision algorithms, detectin
g faults, allowing user interaction and interfacing to external applic
ations. The system is highly parametrizable, thus flexible and re-usab
le. It is being used at CERN in several applications for the control,
monitoring, and diagnostics of accelerator components.