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New Computer Control System (NCCS)
DESIGN
version 2.0
Jonathan Quick,
Andy Götz,
Mike Gaylard
Contents
Introduction
Overview
Phase 1 - Limited VLBI Support
Development Environment
(J.Quick)
PC-STEER
(J.Quick)
Instrumentation Control Bus
(J.Quick)
Noise Diodes
(J.Quick)
Time
(J.Quick)
Alarms
(J.Quick)
Logging
(J.Quick)
Mark IV VLBI System Interface
(J.Quick)
Phase 2 - General Observing Support
Hardware Interfaces
(J.Quick)
Radiometer Data Acquisition
(J.Quick)
Auto-Correlation Spectrometer
(M.Gaylard & J.Quick)
Pulsar Timer
(C.Flanagan??)
Frequency Synthesisers
(M.Gaylard)
Observing - System Libraries
(J.Quick)
User Interface
(J.Quick)
Phase 3 - System Integration
Scheduler & Security
(J.Quick)
Common Data Format
Observing Programs
(Astronomers)
Phase 4 and beyond
Antenna Pointing System Upgrade
(J.Quick)
Technical Monitoring System
(M.Ainley)
Other Issues
Testing
Disks and Backups
NCCS Physcial Configuration
(J.Quick)
Main (
nccs
) & Backup (
nccs2
) Control Computers
VLBI Field System Computer (
vlbi
)
PC-STEER Computer (
steer
)
PC-COREL Computer (
correl
)
Network Time Server (
tick
)
About this document ...
Mike Gaylard
1999-06-11
