OPC+EPICS for Linux

["Bertrand H.J. Biritz" <bbiritz@ucla.edu>]

Dear Tech-talk,

I have a CAEN SY2527 Power supply crate and two A1534 HV modules  
which need to be controlled by EPICS - Slow Control system for the TOFr.

Looking through the modules section of the EPICS website there appear  
to be modules for VME based CAEN hardware. Am I correct in assuming  
this will not help in my case?

The only way possible to control this hardware I believe is via OPC.  
CAEN supplies a pre-built OPC server for Windows and source code +  
libraries for Linux.

After having looked through Tech-talk there is an OPC-EPICS interface  
developed by BESSY - but it is for Windows.

Right now the computer to be connected with the hardware and hence  
become the IOC server will be a linux machine (presumably Scientific  
Linux 3.0.5).

My primary question is:

could I use the CAEN supplied source code to write a module which  
will translate EPICS command to OPC commands and vice versa?

I believe this is very similar to what BESSY has already done,  
although it would be for Linux.

As I am an EPICS newbie would it be very difficult to write this  
module within a month, or am I going about this is the completely  
wrong way?

Thanks,
Bertrand