Hardware and software specifications

• Hardware
  • Windows XP SP3 PC with PXI-Extension chassis with NI-Multifuction-I/O and NI-RIO boards will be used for development and production.
  • Deterministic HW I/O
    • NI-RIO module is used as interface for all fast HW signals. Proposal:
      • Reuse of NI PXI-7811R with NI-9151 expansion chassis and cDAQ modules for analog input and output.
        • Analog input (16 ch, 16bit, 250kS): NI-9205
        • Analog output (4Ch , 16bit, 100kS): NI-9263
      • Alternativ: NI PXI-7833R
      • TTL-Line-Driver modules of HaraldHahn to connect external digital HW signals, LEMO. One crate with 3x40 channels have been reserved.
  • Other HW I/O
    • NI PXI-6251 Multifunction I/O
• Software
  • The unified TCS will use LabVIEW 2011 with DSC- and FPGA-Modules for implementation.
    • On the production PC the LabVIEW 2011 runtime and TCS executables are installed only.
  • VISA is used for commincation with serial line interfaces.
  • Shared Variables are used for communication between device and user interface layer.