Case: Robust Computer System for Advanced Data Acquisition

ESS needed to synchronize large volumes of real time data across multiple control systems while ensuring precise timing below 25 ps jitter.

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Challenges

Complex Data Requirements

Through close collaboration with Blue Line, ESS has implemented a tailored and future-proof system platform that ensures stable and precise data acquisition in connection with the control system’s complex operational functions.

The data acquisition system addresses the demands of critical environments, where high precision, operational stability, quality, and delivery reliability are essential.

ESS required a system capable of handling data-intensive processes in real time, ensuring precise timing across subsystems, and integrating seamlessly with existing overarching control systems.

Solution

Scalable Platform

The solution is based on the mSYS-8300 system platform, a flexible and scalable mTCA.4-based platform designed for advanced real-time applications. With a modular architecture, the system is configured to meet ESS’s specific requirements.

Support for high-performance processors, FPGAs, and high-precision digitizers ensures accurate synchronization, high data quality, and stable integration with ESS’s control environment.

The platform is also designed with a strong focus on operational reliability, featuring redundant power supplies, efficient cooling, and a robust construction. This provides ESS with a future-proof solution that supports stable operation while allowing for expansion as the facility evolves.

mSYS-8300 Custom System Platform

Robust Computer System for Big Science. ESS in Sweden. Blue Line A/S

Case: Robust Computer System for Advanced Data Acquisition

“We’ve worked closely with ESS throughout the entire development process. By building on many years of shared experience, we’ve created a solution that gives ESS the flexibility and performance they were looking for.”
Brian Ulskov Sørensen, CEO and Partner, Blue Line Nordic

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Collaboration

A Collaboration Focused on Quality

The collaboration between ESS and Blue Line has been characterized by high technical requirements, close dialogue, and a shared focus on quality.

The project demonstrates how specialized solutions can meet the demands of some of the world’s most advanced research facilities.

Key benefits

Precision Control

Enables stable and highly precise real-time data acquisition across complex control systems.

Scalability Flexibility

Modular architecture allows configuration to specific needs and future expansion of the platform.

Operational Reliability

Robust design with redundancy and cooling ensures stable performance in critical environments.

Customer info

The European Spallation Source (ESS)

ESS) is one of the world’s most advanced research facilities, currently being established in Lund, Sweden. ESS is a multidisciplinary research center based on the world’s most powerful neutron source, enabling scientists to study materials at atomic and molecular levels.

The facility supports research within areas such as materials science, energy, environmental science, and life sciences. By providing unique insights into the structure and behavior of materials, ESS contributes to solving some of the most important scientific and technological challenges of our time.

Source: ess.eu

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Collaborating with Danish Technological Institute

Blue Line is proud to contribute to the European Spallation Source (ESS), one of Europe’s leading research facilities.

Featured in a recent industry brochure developed by BigScience.dk and the Danish Technological Institute, our solution is highlighted as an example of how Danish technology and expertise are helping drive the next generation of large scale scientific research.

Read the ESS brochure (available in Danish)