Teledyne SP Devices introduces EPICS drivers
The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is a set of
software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and
used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for
scientific instruments such as particle accelerators, telescopes and other
large scientific experiments.
The framework allows distributed parts of the control system to
communicate with each other in a standardized way and uses client/server
and publish/subscribe techniques to communicate between the various
computers.
EPICS support for ADQ14 and ADQ7 is now included in our software
development kit (SDK). The driver is implemented using
EPICS base
as well as the Nominal Device Support framework (NDS v3) and
EPICS layer
from
Cosylab.
The installer also includes an Operator Interface (OPI) example
implemented as a graphical user interface (GUI) in
Control System Studio (CSS)
together with the
BOY
extension.
Benefits:
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Widely adopted software framework for control of large-scale distributed
control systems.
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The standardized abstraction layer makes it easy to integrate new
devices in existing systems.
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Collaboratively developed and maintained by world-leading scientific
facilities.
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Designed for scalability – from single test stations with a low channel
count, to large distributed networks with thousands of channels.
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Public open source project freely available according to the
EPICS Open License .
Applications:
- Scientific instruments
- Big Science
- Big Physics
- Particle accelerators
- Fusion
- Material research
