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Techniques for Increasing the
Reliability of Accelerator Control System Electronics A.H. Angelov INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria An important part of the job of the accelerator physicist or engineer involved in the accelerator control system project is to estimate the quality of the used electronics. The estimation of the software service of this electronics has a similar importance. Ten years ago Jeff Utterback from FNAL reported on the gained experience as regards the reliability of the accelerator control system components (PAC’1993). It seems useful to make a review on the same matter today - ten years later. We did it as a comparison between the problems discussed ten years ago and the nowadays system design, the system components and the appropriate parameters. Some disputable ideas, that have emerged as a result, are reported in the light of the modern tendencies in the automated control. |