Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
tieman wrote:
I've thought about the standard EPICS IOC route. The Image Server was
always an application first and a PV server second. I still believe
there is value in that philosophy but can see the value in going
standard EPICS.
I don't see a danger in sticking with the Portable Channel Access
Server. There's enough code reliant on it now that I don't see it
going away. It does not suffer from the 16K barrier if built to avoid
it but I generally disagree with EPICS as a means to move image data.
I've already done a small amount of preliminary work in developing a
new code base using the PCAS but it's nothing that can't be thrown away.
It is always a good idea to constantly seek improvement on EPICS.
However, I am not unhappy about its CA performance so far. Sometimes,
its perfromance is coupled with the hardware, software and PC that
is used in your system.
In Nov. 2007, I was able to "display real-time image" at an average
of 20 Mbytes/sec (a max. of 22 Mbytes/sec) while the camera
was transferring the image data at 28 Mbytes/sec to the system
memory via the 1GHz network. The performance is up by 33 % since
the paper was published in ICALEPCS07 conference, which was held
in Oct.. See
http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/ica07/PAPERS/WPPB12.PDF
The system configuration is mvme5500/firewire/Linux PC.
The better news is that I do not think I hit the bottleneck yet.
1) I could still improve the mvme5500 BSP that I wrote to have higher
performance.
2) The perfromance is estimated to be at least twice higher with the
mvme6100 support in the "disco" BSP, which I derived
from the mvme5500 BSP that I wrote. "disoc" BSP supports the discovery
based board such as mvme5500 and mvme6100.
However, the analysis of 1) and 2) is not a high priority task to me
presently.
Only the sky is the limit.
Cheers,
Kate
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