EPICS Collaboration Meeting 2006
Core Development

Bob Dalesio, SLAC:
"EPICS Version 4 Update"

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• How many embedded IOC is EPICS 3/4 to work with?
• PROJECT NEEDED!

Andrew Johnson, Argonne:
"The Future via EPICS version 3"

Nick Rees, Diamond:
"Feedback on EPICS V4/V3 directions"

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• "EPICS is democratically developped"
• they seem to run into that problem for EPICS 4 ("Democracy does not work in software development")
• Three tier architecture ??

Kay-Uwe Kasimir, ORNL:
"Toy IOC Experiments, hierarchical EPICS database: 'The TOY IOC' "

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• !!!
• page 14-16: What is EPICS good in and less?
• Comparisons to TANGO, ACS, DOOCS, NIF, RHIC, CDEV,...
• %RED ⇒ contact to test
• "all other Control Systems are hierarchical and object-oriented, EPICS is flat"
• presented device.record ≡ Object with data members and methods

Marty Kraimer:
"A Java based IOC"

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• For Future
• XML definitions for database
• structure ≡deklaration / template
• record type ≡ definition of instance
• ways to interface to V3?
• Komplex hierarchical Object
  • break it down to basic objects and provide PVs, or ...
  • keep complexity alive

Jeff Hill, LANL:
"CA Enhancements for LANSCE Timed and Flavoured Data"

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• TODO: Understand CA Model

Andrew Johnson, Argonne:
"Modifying hardware addresses at runtime"

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• DTYP and INP/OUT fields can be changed DURING run time