Abstract
The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is a new 64-meter shaped antenna designed to carry out observations up to 100
GHz. This large instrument has been built in Sardinia, 35 km north of Cagliari, and is now facing the technical
commissioning phase. This paper describes the architecture, the implementation solutions and the development status of
NURAGHE, the SRT control software. Aim of the project was to produce a software which is reliable, easy to keep up to
date and flexible against other telescopes. The most ambitious goal will be to install NURAGHE at all the three italian
radio telescopes, allowing the astronomers to access these facilities through a common interface with very limited extra
effort. We give a description of all the control software subsystems (servo systems, backends, receivers, etc.) focusing on
the resulting design, which is based on the ACS (Alma Common Software) patterns and comes from linux-based, LGPL,
Object-Oriented development technologies. We also illustrate how NURAGHE deals with higher level requirements,
coming from the telescope management or from the system users.
