Libera BASE

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Basic Application Support Environment

Libera BASE narrows the gap between your HW and the machine Control System. When designing your system in various environments, Libera BASE (developed by Instrumentation Technologies) enables easy start-up and control. Its comprehensive architecture supports rapid prototyping and application development, especially for high speed FPGA processing. It efficiently connects the HW, FPGA and SW with the users' Control System. Libera BASE is suitable for, but not limited to, Libera instruments.

Benefits

Ready for a direct use on new instruments

Enables immediate and unified access to Libera instruments from a familiar working environment to explore, configure and monitor the instrument
Acquire signals provided by instruments
Supported out of the box: Matlab, Octave, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, web services

Easy to learn

Provides intuitive ways to use instruments
Use cases and examples shorten the learning curve

Simple, versatile and effective instrument interfaces

Same interface concepts shared by all instruments (configuration registry, signal acquisition, FPGA and Software Development Kits)
Matlab, Octave, Office suites, and others
Web interfaces to access instruments from anywhere, including mobile devices
Command line tools for scripting
Libera MCI programming interface (C++, Python, Ruby, Java)

For advanced users

Development of experimental setups and processing algorithms through integrations for experimental environments (programming languages and visualization tools).
Creating new solutions by combining multiple instruments.

Ready to be integrated in various Control Systems

EPICS, TANGO, users' specific Control Systems etc.

Suitable to various hardware technologies

Libera HW generation B, uTCA, and many others that will emerge in the future
Simplifies incremental upgrade of instruments (performance, obsolescence of components)
Makes migration of instrument applications from one hardware technology to another a simple and easy task
Allows a wide range of instrument combinations using ready to use "components"

Supports reconfigurable instruments

Behavior of the instrument can be customized and improved
Plug-in functionality, developed by Instrumentation Technologies
FPGA and Software Development Kits to create extensions that fine-tune and customize instruments for particular environments. These extensions seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure.

Rapid prototyping and creation of new instruments

You can design your solution upfront, concentrating on core development challenges
Integration of signal and control paths with the hardware
High quality of Libera BASE components enables rapid development of instruments
Reuse of components and previously implemented solutions
Standardized environment
Incremental development whenever possible

Community and support

Sharing knowledge and support within community
Support and consulting by Instrumentation Technologies' experts

High-level Software Architecture

Software modules are implemented using the Libera BASE framework, which provides HW abstraction and simplifies development and integration. Libera BASE also takes care of all common tasks such as platform management and health monitoring. Besides this, Libera BASE is an extensible application layer with configuration parameters (registry tree) as well as signal acquisition, processing and dispatching functionality. On the top layer, it provides the Measurement and Control Interface (MCI) with a development package and an example CLI utility for open interaction in different control systems. All the software runs on a standard Linux distribution (for example Ubuntu Linux).

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Application Alghorithm Sharing

Read the article "Simplified Instrument/Application Development and System Integration Using Libera BASE SW Framework" presented at ICALEPCS at: Conference Papers.