Development of the orbit feedback system for the VSX ring

An orbit feedback system will be installed in the VSX ring to stabilize the photon beam. The new COD correction method, the eigenvector method with constraints, is adopted for calculation of the steering-magnet currents. A computer simulation shows that the new method can tightly fix the beam positions at insertion devices, correcting the whole closed orbit globally with almost the same performance as the ordinary eigenvector method. A test VME unit including DSP and shared memory boards is being developed for the fast feedback control and its performance test shows that the total feedback time is less than 1 ms (875 μs) except for the network and VME-bus transfer times related to the shared memory board