accessing ZedBoard PL from TANGO distributed control system
youtube video https://youtu.be/fH60xha-u6o
paper here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HOfuCSrw6B209dEPM7wvXpxm8jWtyQ9mt2t3AShQnJI
Download a ready to launch TangoBox (64 bit OS / VirtualBox required, 1.4GB)
http://dl.free.fr/dWfRMq6Xe
flash zedboard qspi memory with BOOT.bin
http://dl.free.fr/b5O2C4K43
see www.tango-controls.org for more info on TANGO Control system and www.esrf.eu where it was designed and used since 1996.
Tango is a free, open source, distributed, scalable, efficient SCADA framework : a set of tools and API to monitor industrial appliance of any kinds...
Tango control system was elaborated at the ESRF, a large synchrotron radiation facility in Grenoble, France. The ESRF is a large research laboratory (1500 engineers, researchers, ), a kind of giant microscope to explore organic molecules or others and that uses X rays of high energy (6 GeV) issued from an 850 meters circumference accelerator in more than 40 beams lines operating simultaneously. see www.esrf.eu for info.
Tango Control System is a 100 man/years middleware, which aims at the monitoring 24/7 of more than 200 000 sensors & actuators in the facility. It features among other usage : logging, events driven communication, seamless integration to NI Labview, Matlab, Igor scientific toolboxes or OPC-UA plc, EPICS bus, ...
The SKA Telescope (square kilometre array telescope in southAfrica/Australia) will use TANGO. (skatelescope.org)
But Tango can also fit in a raspberry pi or in a zynq SoC ! But it is a serious game...
we enroll in XUP OpenHardware 2015 Contest with this proof of concept.
thank you for reading
