SPring-8 beamline control system

Beamline control system in the SPring-8 is integrated by unified applicatio ns at all beamlines. That is the control, the data acquisition, the network and the interlock systems are constructed by the SPring-8 standard softwar e framework and hardware components as we presented before (Ohata et al., J . Synchrotron Radiat. 5 (1998) 590.). The system is designed adopting the s ame control framework as that of the SPring-8 storage ring in order to real ize smooth operation between facilities (Tanaka et al., ICALEPCS'95, Chicag o, USA, 1995, p. 201.). Since September 1997, the beamline control system has been supplied to almo st every beamline and the number of optics equipment has grown up to suppor t new beamlines. In this paper, we describe the outline of the beamline con trol system and the status of the latest projects. (C) 2001 Elsevier Scienc e B.V. All rights reserved.