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On Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2010, Ralph Lange wrote:
> On 21.10.2010 11:21, Steven M. Hartman wrote:
> > The ai and ao records included in base support a breakpoint table
> > facility which may be adequate for your needs. But this conversion
> > is to/from RVAL (which is an int) and VAL (which is a double). I
> > hacked a bpt record (based on the ai record) which used the break
> > point table functions included in base to do double to double
> > conversions for my needs. In this way, everything was done in the
> > EPICS database (no sequencer, no subroutine records, etc).
>
> RVALs are integer, of course - now I start remembering .... stupid
> me.
>
> For a similar application (global tune feed-forward from all ID gaps
> towards multiple families of quadrupoles) Benjamin Franksen at BESSY
> created a new record called cvtRecord to handle large 1/2D
> feed-forward tables in a generic way:
Yes. I use this record type heavily for all sorts of conversion tasks.
It is one of the most-reused pieces of code I have ever written.
The cvt record is a lot more flexible than ao. As Ralph indicated, it is
not restricted to functions of one input variable, but can also read
and interpolate two-dimensional tables, i.e. calculate the output from
from two independent inputs. Furthermore, it can load / reload tables
at runtime. The actual loading of the table is done asynchronously and
proceeds in parallel to the conversion, i.e. conversion continues to
run while the table is loaded in the background. Only after the table
has successfully been loaded is it swapped in for the old one. This
means you can correct or adjust tables in a running system w/o having
to stop the feedforward.
I should properly publish this code on our newly revamped website. I
will post an announcement here as soon as I have the page up and
running.
BTW, the csm module that implements the loading and interpolation was
written by my colleague GÃtz Pfeiffer.
Cheers
Ben
--
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