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Gómez-Reñasco, M. F.; Martín, Y.; Aguiar-González, M.; Cozar, J.; González-Cobos, N.; Hoyland, R.; Núñez Cagical, M.; Pérez-de-Taoro, M. R.; Sánchez-de la Rosa, V.; Vega-Moreno, A.; Viera-Curbelo, T.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9914, id. 991432 9 pp. (2016).
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Description
The QUIJOTE-CMB experiment (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife CMB experiment) has
been described in previous publications. In particular, the architecture
of the MFI instrument control system, the first of the three QUIJOTE
instruments, was presented in [1]. In this paper we describe the control
system architecture, hardware, and software, of the second QUIJOTE
instrument, the TGI (Thirty GHz Instrument), which has been in the
process of commissioning for a few weeks now. It is a 30 pixel 26-36 GHz
polarimeter array mounted at the focus of the second QUIJOTE telescope.
The polarimeter design is based on the QUIET polarimeter scheme,
implementing phase switches of 90° and 180° to generate four
states of polarisation. The TGI control system acquires the scientific
signal of the four channels for each of the 30 polarimeters, sampled at
160 kHz; it controls the commutation of the 30 x 4 phase switches at 16
kHz or 8 kHz; it performs the acquisition and monitoring of the health
of the complete instrument, acquiring housekeeping from the various
subsystems and also controls the different operational modes of the
telescope. It finally, implements a queue system that permits automation
of the observations by allowing the programming of several days of
observations with the minimum of human intervention. The acquisition
system is based on a PXI-RT host from NI, the commutations of the phase
switches are performed by a PXI-FPGA subsystem and the telescope control
is based on an EtherCAT bus from Beckhoff.