Particle Accelerators Join the Physics Community View presentations, read technical papers, and participate in discussion forums. Particle accelerators rely on high-speed data acquisition instrumentation and advanced control to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds and to contain them. National Instruments provides commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software platforms with high speed, high-bandwidth acquisition, timing and synchronization, and advanced control to solve some instrumentation and control challenges.
CERN Uses LabVIEW and PXI Hardware for LHC Control
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Spanning more than 27 km, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (also known as CERN) is one of the largest and most complex machines on earth. To redirect any potentially dangerous stray particles, CERN selected LabVIEW and PXI from NI to control the motion inside 108 collimators with an accuracy of 20 microns. The final system uses more than 100 PXI systems, which are synchronized within 1 ms of each other.
LabVIEW is a platform and development environment for a graphical programming language that helps you develop, debug, and deploy large distributed systems for control and data acquisition. With the LabVIEW platform, you can readily take advantage of multicore processor performance on desktops and real-time systems and also run your applications on FPGA-based hardware targets.
PXI is the open, PC-based platform for test, measurement, and control. PXI provides the industry’s highest bandwidth and lowest latency with modular I/O for high-resolution DC to 6 GHz RF. With more than 1,200 products from more than 70 vendors, PXI is the platform of choice for thousands of companies worldwide.
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