CERN Front-End Software Architecture for Accelerator Controls

To overcome the current diversity in AB front end equipment software and pave the way towards LHC for efficient development, diagnostic and maintenance in this area, the CERN Accelerator Controls group launched in April 2003 a project to develop the new CERN accelerator standard infrastructure for front end software. This development is based on the infrastructure recently born to handle the SPS beam measurement systems and extends it to handle the PS and SPS multi-cycling schemes, the future requirements needed for LHC as well as providing a good backward compatibility with the existing infrastructures. The project, approach and first deliverables are presented.