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@inproceedings{baker:icalepcs2021-mopv019,
author = {K.R.L. Baker and I.D. Finch and G.D. Howells and M. Romanovschi and A.A. Saoulis},
title = {{PVEcho: Design of a Vista/EPICS Bridge for the ISIS Control System Transition}},
booktitle = {Proc. ICALEPCS'21},
pages = {164--168},
eid = {MOPV019},
language = {english},
keywords = {EPICS, controls, hardware, software, neutron},
venue = {Shanghai, China},
series = {International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems},
number = {18},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {03},
year = {2022},
issn = {2226-0358},
isbn = {978-3-95450-221-9},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-MOPV019},
url = {https://jacow.org/icalepcs2021/papers/mopv019.pdf},
abstract = {{The migration of the ISIS Controls System from Vsystem to EPICS presents a significant challenge and risk to the day-to-day operations of the accelerator. An evaluation of potential options has indicated that the most effective migration method to mitigate against this risk is to make use of a ‘hybrid’ system running Vsystem and EPICS simultaneously. This allows for a phased porting of controls hardware from the existing software to EPICS. This work will outline the prototype Vsystem/EPICS bridge that will facilitate this hybrid operation, referred to as pvecho. The bridge has been developed in Python, utilising existing communication from Vsystem to an MQTT broker developed as part of a previous project. Docker containers have been used for its development to create an isolated test environment to allow the software to communicate with other services currently used at ISIS.}},
}