Design and Development of a Diagnostics Client for a Beam Loss ...

Design and Development of a Diagnostics Client for a Beam Loss Measurement System at CERN
Figure 35: PS Single Channel Acquisition. Hardware Info Tab.
achieve this goal it should group functionalities of given category in a separate tab.
It should also allow online real time data viewing and optional storage in the offline
files. The online viewing of the acquisition and status data should be implemented
by use of separate tabs. The file structure for the offline data should be proposed as
well. The offline data analysis tool should be designed within the application. This
stage of development makes use of the Java Swing framework. This framework
provides a set of powerful and flexible components, which synthesize the look and
feel of modern Java GUI applications.
The final outlook of the GUI was discussed and agreed between the members of the
development team and of course the end users. It groups the different functionalities
of the application into separate tabs, i.e. Online, Offline, Status, Hardware Info,
Static and Advanced Commands. A user-friendly environment was achieved with
the use of the Java Swing framework with several built-in components, as well as
the JDataViewer[13] for the graphical representations.
• High data rate. The application will receive data streamed at a high rate (16 kbps
in single-channel mode and 128 kbps in multi-channel mode). To manage online
data display and offline data storage in parallel, multi-threading technology must be
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