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RIS citation export for S07IC03: EPICS Architecture

TY  - CONF
AU  - Dalesio, L.R.
AU  - Kozubal, A.J.
AU  - Kraimer, M.R.
ED  - Pak, Cheol-on
ED  - Kurokawa, Shin-ichi
ED  - Katoh, Tadahiko
ED  - Furukawa, Kazuro
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
TI  - EPICS Architecture
J2  - Proc. of ICALEPCS1991, Tsukuba, Japan, 11-15 November 1991
CY  - Tsukuba, Japan
T2  - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3  - 3
LA  - english
AB  - The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) provides control and data acquisition for the experimental physics community. Because the capabilities required by the experimental physics community for control were not available through industry, we began the design and implementation of EPICS. It is a distributed process control system built on a software communication bus. The functional subsystems, which provide data acquisition, supervisory control, closed loop control, archiving, and alarm management, greatly reduce the need for programming. Sequential control is provided through a sequential control language, allowing the implementer to express state diagrams easily. Data analysis of the archived data is provided through an interactive tool. The timing system provides distributed synchronization for control and time stamped data for data correlation across nodes in the network. The system is scalable from a single test station with a low channel count to a large distributed network with thousands of channels. The functions provided to the physics applications have proven helpful to the experiments while greatly reducing the time to deliver controls.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 278
EP  - 282
KW  - controls
KW  - database
KW  - EPICS
KW  - distributed
KW  - network
DA  - 1992/12
PY  - 1992
SN  - 2226-0358
SN  - 978-3-95450-254-7
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S07IC03
UR  - https://jacow.org/icalepcs1991/papers/s07ic03.pdf
ER  -