Applicable Documents

The following documents, of the exact issue shown, form part of this document to the extend specified herein. In the event of conflict between the documents referenced herein and the content of this issue, the content of this document shall be considered as a superseding requirement.

 

Reference Document Number Issue Date Title
[AD 01] VLT-SPE-ESO-10000-0011 2.0 30/09/1992 VLT Software Requirements Specifications
[AD 02] VLT-PRO-ESO-10000-0228 1.0 10/03/1993 VLT Software Programming Standards
[AD 05] VLT-MAN-ESO-17200-0888 1.0 17/08/1995 VLT Common Software Overview
[AD 06] VLT-MAN-ESO-17210-0642 1.11 22/11/1999 VLT Common Software Installation Manual
[AD 07] VLT-MAN-ESO-17210-0855 3.0 30/10/1998 VLT Software Environments Common Configuration User Manual
[AD 08] VLT-MAN-ESO-17210-0667 1.0 03/12/1996 Guidelines for the Development of VLT Application Software
[AD 09] VLT-SPE-ESO-17210-2051 2 2002-07-04 LCU Common Software - LCU Server Framework Detailed Design
[AD 10] VLT-SPE-ESO-17210-2680 1 2000-03-10 LCU Common Software - LCU Application Server Framework Requirements Specification

Reference Documents

The reference documents contain background information required to fully understand the structure of this document, the terminology used, the software environment in which the product shall be integrated and the interface characteristics to the external systems.

VLT Project Software documents are available from the ESO VLT Project Archive or online at the following URL:
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/sw-dev/ftp/index.html

 

Reference Document Number Issue Date Title
[RDV 01] VLT-MAN-ESO-17210-0619 1.6 20/10/1999 VLT Central Control Software - User Manual
[RDV 02] VLT-MAN-SBI-17210-0001 3.5 20/10/1999 LCU Common Software - User Manual
[RDV 03] VLT-MAN-ESO-17210-0707 1.4 20/10/1999 CCS On-Line Database Loader - User Manual
[RDV 04] VLT-SPE-ESO-17230-0819 1.3 18/09/1997 Mode Switching - Design Description
[RDV 05] VLT-MAN-ESO-17210-0600 1.7 02/10/1998 LCC Motor Control Module - User Manual

 

The following non-VLT documents are referenced in the document:

 

Reference Title Authors Publisher, Date
[RD 01] IEEE Std 1012, Standard for Software Verification and Validation Plans   1986
[RD 02] IEEE Std 830, Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications   1993
[RD 03] IEE (UK), Guidelines for the Documentation of Software in Industrial Computer Systems   1985
[RD 04] The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual J. Rumbaugh, G. Booch,
I. Jacobson
Addison-Wesley, 1998
[RD 05] The Unified Modeling Language User Guide G. Booch, J. Rumbaugh,
I. Jacobson
Addison-Wesley, 1998
[RD 06] The Unified Software Development Process I. Jacobson, G. Booch,
J. Rumbaugh
Addison-Wesley, 1999
[RD 07] Real-Time UML - Developing Efficient Objects For Embedded Systems B. Douglas Addison-Wesley, 1998
[RD 08] Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software E. Gamma, R. Helm,
R. Johnson and J. Vlissides
Addison-Wesley, 1994

Acronyms

This document employs several abbreviations and acronyms to refer concisely to an item, after it has been introduced. The following list is aimed to help the reader in recalling the extended meaning of each short expression:

 

[AD xx] Applicable Document #xx
CCS Central Common Software
DB Database
ESO European Southern Observatory
I/O Input/Output
LAN Local Area Network
LCC LCU Common Software
LCU Local Control Unit
MCM Motor Control Module (part of LCC)
OLDB On-line Database
OO Object Oriented
[RD xx] Reference Document #xx
RT Real-Time
TIM Time Interface Module
UC Use Case
UML Unified Modeling Language
VME Versa Module Eurocard
WS (Unix) Work Station

Stylistic Conventions

Text

The following styles are used:

Diagrams

All diagrams are based on the UML notation, as described in [RD 04] and given in Appendix.
Besides the classical class notation, three dedicated icons are used throughout the class diagrams for representing the UML standard class stereotypes ([RD 06] pp. 183ff) and shown below:

 

lsf BoundaryEntityControl

 


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