Author: Malitsky, N.
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FRBHMULT06 EPICS V4 Expands Support to Physics Application, Data Acsuisition, and Data Analysis 1338
 
  • L.R. Dalesio, G. Carcassi, M.A. Davidsaver, M.R. Kraimer, R. Lange, N. Malitsky, G. Shen
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • T. Korhonen
    Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • J. Rowland
    Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  • M. Sekoranja
    Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • G.R. White
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported under auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, and in part by the DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
EPICS version 4 extends the functionality of version 3 by providing the ability to define, transport, and introspect composite data types. Version 3 provided a set of process variables and a data protocol that adequately defined scalar data along with an atomic set of attributes. While remaining backward compatible, Version 4 is able to easily expand this set with a data protocol capable of exchanging complex data types and parameterized data requests. Additionally, a group of engineers defined reference types for some applications in this environment. The goal of this work is to define a narrow interface with the minimal set of data types needed to support a distributed architecture for physics applications, data acquisition, and data analysis.
 
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