Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Do you do the binning in the IOC? This is something we have thought of but not implemented yet.

 

Timo

 

Hi,

 

We have seen similar issues and one way we dealt with it was to provide a heavily re-binned array for use via gateways. Inside the beamline network we provide both a full un-binned array, hidden behind ‘detailed’ buttons, as well as the re-binned array screens that users will first encounter on higher level screens. We also limited the array size that the gateway will transmit, so some of the larger arrays don’t work which forces people to view the re-binned arrays.

 

Also, depending on the original data type and software, you can ‘compress’ the array data from 16 or 32-bit down to 8-bit data by re-scaling it to 0-255, like a JPEG image. Then the waveform data type can be set to UCHAR.

 

The above only works if the waveforms are simply for visualization.

 

Cheers,

Matt

 

 

Right, this is the way we are going for now. It is not exactly trivial to manage but should be doable.

 

Thanks,

 

TImo