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A General Device Driver Simulator to Help Compare Real Time Control Systems

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M.S. Mohan
EGO, Pisa, Italy

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition systems (SCADA) such as Epics, Tango and Tine usually provide small example device driver programs for testing or to help users get started, however they differ between systems making it hard to compare the SCADA. To address this, a small simulator driver was created which emulates signals and errors similar to those received from a hardware device. The simulator driver can return from one to four signals: a ramp signal, a large alarm ramp signal, an error signal and a timeout. The different signals or errors are selected using the associated software device number. The simulator driver performs similar functions to Epic’s clockApp [1], Tango’s TangoTest and the Tine’s sinegenerator but the signals are independent of the SCADA. A command line application, an Epics server (IOC), a Tango device server, and a Tine server (FEC) were created and linked with the simulator driver. In each case the software device numbers were equated to a dummy device. Using the servers it was possible to compare how each SCADA behaved against the same repeatable signals. In addition to comparing and testing the SCADA the finished servers proved useful as templates for real hardware device drivers.
[1] F.Furukawa, "Very Simple Example of EPICS Device Suport", http://www-linac.kek.jp/epics/second

Poster WEPKS030 [1.504 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
WEPKS030	A General Device Driver Simulator to Help Compare Real Time Control Systems	863
	M.S. Mohan EGO, Pisa, Italy
	Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition systems (SCADA) such as Epics, Tango and Tine usually provide small example device driver programs for testing or to help users get started, however they differ between systems making it hard to compare the SCADA. To address this, a small simulator driver was created which emulates signals and errors similar to those received from a hardware device. The simulator driver can return from one to four signals: a ramp signal, a large alarm ramp signal, an error signal and a timeout. The different signals or errors are selected using the associated software device number. The simulator driver performs similar functions to Epic’s clockApp [1], Tango’s TangoTest and the Tine’s sinegenerator but the signals are independent of the SCADA. A command line application, an Epics server (IOC), a Tango device server, and a Tine server (FEC) were created and linked with the simulator driver. In each case the software device numbers were equated to a dummy device. Using the servers it was possible to compare how each SCADA behaved against the same repeatable signals. In addition to comparing and testing the SCADA the finished servers proved useful as templates for real hardware device drivers. [1] F.Furukawa, "Very Simple Example of EPICS Device Suport", http://www-linac.kek.jp/epics/second
	Poster WEPKS030 [1.504 MB]