- Du, Qiang;
- Murthy, Shreeharshini;
- Betz, Michael;
- Bender, Kevin;
- Lewis, Wayne;
- Saqib, Najm Us;
- Paiagua, Sergio;
- Doolittle, Lawrence;
- Serrano, Carlos;
- Flugstad, Benjamin;
- Baptiste, Kenneth
Currently ALS is undergoing an upgrade to ALSU to produce 100 times brighter
soft X-ray light. The LLRF system for Accumulator Ring (AR) is composed of two
identical LLRF stations, for driving RF amplifiers. The closed loop RF
amplitude and phase stability is measured as $< 0.1\%$ and $< 0.1^\circ$
respectively, using the non-IQ digital down conversion together with analog
up/down conversion, under a system-on-chip architecture. Realtime interlock
system is implemented with $< 2 \mu$s latency, for machine protection against
arc flash and unexpected RF power. Control interfaces are developed to enable
PLC-FPGA-EPICS communication to support operation, timing, cavity tuning, and
interlock systems. The LLRF system handles alignment of buckets to swap beams
between AR and Storage Ring by synchronous phase loop ramping between the two
cavities. The system also includes an optimization routine to characterize the
loop dynamics and determine optimal operating point using a built-in network
analyzer feature. A cavity emulator of 31 kHz bandwidth is integrated with the
LLRF system to validate the performance of the overall system being developed.