DevLore - A Firmware Library and Web-Based Configuration Control Tool for Accelerator Systems Under Constant Development

Conference · Mon Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2005

OSTI ID:883316

Evans, Richard; Jordan, Kevin; Gruber, Deborah; Sexton, Daniel

The Free Electron Laser Project at Jefferson Lab is based on a comparatively small accelerator driver. As it's systems continues to grow and evolve, strict configuration control has not been a programmatic goal. Conversely, as the IR-Demo FEL and the 10kW IR FEL have been built and operated, hardware and software changes have been regular part of the machine development process. With relatively small component counts for sub-systems, changes occur without requiring much formal documentation and in-situ alterations are common-place in the name of supporting operations. This paper presents an overview of the web-based software tool called DevLore which was first developed to be a library for embedded programming and then became a tremendously effective tool for tracking all changes made to the machine hardware and software.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 883316
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACT-05-06; DOE/ER/40150-3916
• Resource Relation: Conference: ICALEPCS 2005, 10-15 Oct 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English