Support for Allen-Bradley PLCs

["Rarback, Harvey" <rarback@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

	Folks,

We are starting to design the Machine Protection System for SPEAR3.  One of the options we are considering is the Allen-Bradley SLC 5/05 which comes with an Ethernet interface.  Is there EPICS support for this interface?  Does anyone have suggestions for a communications interface--Ethernet, DeviceNet, ControlNet or the tried-and-true Blue Hose?  Is anyone using the new generation of Allen-Bradley processors, the ControlLogix family?  Any other advice about MPS systems and EPICS at this early stage of our thinking would be greatly appreciated.

                                   --Harvey
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Harvey Rarback                        phone:      (650)926-3963
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center    fax:        (650)926-4100
2575 Sand Hill Road                  
Menlo Park, CA 94025
rarback@slac.stanford.edu
   
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