We report on updates to the accelerator controls for the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II, a pulsed induction-type accelerator for heavy ions. The control infrastructure is built around a LabVIEW interface combined with an Apache Cassandra backend for data archiving. Recent upgrades added the storing and retrieving of device settings into the database, as well as ZeroMQ as a message broker that replaces LabVIEW's shared variables. Converting to ZeroMQ also allows easy access via other programming languages, such as Python.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1506.04212,
title = {Control Infrastructure for a Pulsed Ion Accelerator},
author = {A. Persaud and M. J. Regis and M. W. Stettler and V. K. Vytla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.04212},
year = {2016}
}