MODULARIZATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF ACCELERATOR CONTROL-SYSTEMS

With the advent of distributed processing, network standards, distributed data bases and hardware standards, it has become possible to build interface standards so that subsystems can be broken into modules without losing the ability to be easily integrated into a large control system. In this regard, software has lagged hardware. This is a particular problem when components of an accelerator are developed or manufactured by different organizations. Status and potential benefits of standardization in accelerator-and related-machine control systems, especially with regard to their software, are discussed and reviewed. © 1990.