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Report number	physics/0110091 ; ICALEPCS-2001-THBT002 ; THBT002 ; THBT-002
Title	Development of a Detector Control System for the ATLAS Pixel Detector
Author(s)	Kersten, S. (Wuppertal U.) ; Imhauser, M. (Wuppertal U.) ; Imhaeuser, M. (Wuppertal U.) ; Kind, P. (Wuppertal U.) ; Burckhart, H. (CERN) ; Hallgren, B. (CERN) ; Hallewell, G. (Marseille, CPPM) ; Vacek, V. (Prague, Tech. U.)
Publication	2001
Number of pages	3
Note	Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures, ICALEPCS 2001 3 pages, 2 figures, ICALEPCS 2001
In:	eConf C011127 (2001) pp.THBT002
In:	8th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, San José, CA, USA, 27 - 30 Nov 2001, pp.e-proc. THBT002
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Abstract	The innermost part of the ATLAS experiment will be a pixel detector containing around 1750 individual detector modules. A detector control system (DCS) is required to handle thousands of I/O channels with varying characteristics. The main building blocks of the pixel DCS are the cooling system, the power supplies and the thermal interlock system, responsible for the ultimate safety of the pixel sensors. The ATLAS Embedded Local Monitor Board (ELMB), a multi purpose front end I/O system with a CAN interface, is foreseen for several monitoring and control tasks. The Supervisory, Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system will use PVSS, a commercial software product chosen for the CERN LHC experiments. We report on the status of the different building blocks of the ATLAS pixel DCS.

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